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Gilded/Progressive

Total questions: 68

Worksheet time: 1hrs 3mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Men such as Andrew Carnegie believed in giving money to libraries, musuems and schools to help benefit people who wanted to move up in the social ladder. 
a)
geopolitical
b)
political bosses
c)
anthropolgy
d)
philanthropy
2.
Due to the corruption of the railroads companies, the U.S. government created this act to regulate railroad companies to be reasonable in prices.
a)
Interstate Commerece Act
b)
Dawes Act
c)
Transcontiental Act
d)
Laizzez Faire Act 
3.
A group of companies in the same industry giving day-to-day operation of their companies over to a single board of directors.
a)
monopoly
b)
corporation
c)
trust
d)
horizontal Integration
4.
What was a city government marked by corruption, bribery, and Kickbacks (common during the Gilded Age) called?
a)
credit mobilier
b)
political machine
c)
corrected democracy
d)
electoral politics
5.
The Bessemer Process was a more efficient way to make this product, plus it made it stronger.
a)
steel
b)
automobiles
c)
gasoline
d)
cloth
6.
Complete control over an industry's production, wages, & prices
a)
monopoly
b)
capitalism
c)
socialism
d)
concentration of wealth
7.
Americans who feared that immigrants would take jobs and impose their Roman Catholic beliefs on society
a)
Nativists: 
b)
Native American: 
c)
Monetary Policy: .
d)
Interstate Commerce Act: 
8.
Businesspeople who paid low wages to employees, and took advantage or ignored the laws
a)
Robber Barrons: .
b)
Pure Food and Drug Act: 
c)
Populism:
d)
Political Bosses: 
9.
Which Andrew Carnegie quotation best explains why he funded libraries like the one in this photograph?
a)
"Under the law of competition, the employer of thousands is forced into the strictest economies,...and often there is friction between the employer and the unemployed."
b)
"The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is...great."
c)
"The best means of benefiting the community is to place within its reach the ladders upon which the aspiring can rise."
d)
"This, then, is...the duty of the man of wealth: To set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning display or extravagance."
10.
Which group of people most likely inspired the creation of this 1893 cartoon?
a)
Union leaders
b)
Philanthropists
c)
Political bosses
d)
Nativists
11.

In 1889, during the Gilded Age, a Settlement House called Hull House was opened in Chicago. It was designed to help working class women, many recent immigrants, move out of poverty and dependence on others. It sought to address some of the excesses of industry and business. Who founded Hull House?

a)

Margaret Sanger

b)

Jane Addams

c)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

d)

Susan B. Anthony

12.

Name for entrepreneurs who use ruthless tactics to destroy competition or to keep wages low

a)

Captain of Industry

b)

Robber Baron

c)

Philanthropist

d)

Consolidator

13.
What was The 18th Amendment?
a)
Abolishment of Slavery
b)
Prohibition of Alcohol
c)
Equal Rights for All
d)
Voting Rights for Women
14.

Rockefeller's company was named...

a)

Chevron

b)

Sunoco

c)

National Oil

d)

Standard Oil

15.
During the Gilded age, workers came together to work for better pay, working conditions, and less hours. Leaders such as Samuel Gompers help led many of this workers in....
a)
Philanthropy
b)
Labor Unions
c)
Political Bosses
d)
Credit Unions
16.
What was the name of the law, passed in 1883 during the Gilded Age, that sought to reform government?  It required government applicants to take competitive exams so that they would be hired based upon merit rather than political affiliation.  This law was passed in response to widespread political corruption and the assassination of President Garfield.
a)
Sherman Antitrust Act
b)
Pendelton Civil Service Act
c)
Underwood Tariff Act
d)
Celler-Kefaufer Act
17.

_____________________ gave awareness to the increase in difference between poor and rich in the country

a)

Populist Party

b)

Big Business

c)

Labor Unions

d)

Political Bosses

18.

the practice of a successful political party giving public office to its supporters without any political experience

a)

The Spoils System

b)

Civil Service Reform

c)

Interstate Commerce Act

d)

Dawes Act

19.

Because of the rapid growth of Industrialization in the North people moved out of rural towns to?

a)

Rural farms

b)

Urbanzied cities

c)

Suburbs cities

d)

Homestead farms

20.

Which laws were passed to discriminate against African Americans?

a)

18th Amendment

b)

Temperance laws

c)

Jim Crow laws

d)

14th Amendment

21.

One reason why immigrants left their homeland:

a)

Crop Failures

b)

Job Shortages

c)

Religious/Ethnic Peresection

d)

All of the Above

22.
What amendment provided suffrage for women (1920)?
a)
16th
b)
17th
c)
18th
d)
19th
23.
Who wrote the expose piece of literature that revealed the extensive corrupt monopolistic business practices of Standard Oil?
a)
Ida Tarbell
b)
Lewis Hines 
c)
Jacob Riis
d)
Upton Sinclair
24.
Whose book led to the direct passage of the Meat Inspection Act and indirect of the Pure Food and Drug Acts?
a)
Jacob Riis
b)
Lewis Hines
c)
Ida Tarbell
d)
Upton Sinclair
25.
What anti monopoly law made all"combinations, contracts, and conspiracies" that restrained free trade illegal (1890)?
a)
Interstate Commerce Act
b)
Sherman Antitrust Act
c)
Clayton Antitrust Act
d)
Keller-Cefauver Act
26.
Who was the person who founded the settlement house (Hull House) for the Assimilation and Americanization of the immigrant poor?
a)
Elixabeth Cady Stanton
b)
Jane Addams
c)
Susan B. Anthony
d)
Belle Starr
27.
Who advocated for African Americans to take on menial jobs and earn the respect of white America with hard work ?
a)
WEB Du Bois
b)
Marcus Garvey
c)
Booker T. Washington
d)
Nat Turner
28.
Which of the following is an initiative?
a)
People have the right to remove a politician from office
b)
People have the right to choose who will run for President
c)
People have the right to propose a new law
d)
People have the right to veto or accept a law passed by the government
29.
Which of the following is a Referendum?
a)
People have the right to remove an elected official from office
b)
People have the right to choose who will run for President
c)
People have the right to propose their own law
d)
Any law passed by the government can be voted on for approval or veto by the people
30.
Which of the following is a Recall?
a)
People have the right to choose who will run for President
b)
People have the right to remove an elected official from office
c)
People have the right to propose a new law
d)
People have the right to vote on any law passed by their government for approval/veto
31.
Key Reforms of the Progressive Era
·  Initiative
 ·  Referendum
·  Recall
·  Direct Primary
·  17th Amendment

 How did the reforms listed above impact America?
a)
A system of separate schools for new immigrants
b)
They gave citizens a greater voice in the democratic process of government
c)
More sources of revenue and taxes in state governments.
d)
They successfully brought economic relief to the urban working class
32.
Writers that dig up the bad things going on in society
a)
Suffragists
b)
Muckrakers
c)
Students
d)
Chaffinators
33.
To preserve water, trees, plants, and other natural resources
a)
Precipitation
b)
Confurion
c)
Conservation
d)
Infusion
34.
Who was the leader of Tammany Hall (New York Poltical Machine)?
a)
Andrew Carnegie
b)
Henry Ford
c)
John D. Rockefeller
d)
William Tweed
35.
Which group provided basic services for immigrants & the poor for votes & made illegal fortunes
a)
Nativist
b)
Labor Unions
c)
Political Machines
d)
Robber Barons
36.
Which group had a racial hatred of immigrants, since they took jobs from Americans for lower wages. 
a)
Nativists
b)
Political bosses
c)
Miners
d)
Labor leaders
37.
Which situation does this cartoon from an early 1900s pamphlet illustrate?
a)
The deportation of many Chinese immigrants in the Northwest
b)
The recruitment of Chinese immigrants by large labor unions in the Midwest
c)
The fear in the West of losing jobs to Chinese immigrants
d)
The lack of available resources in the East to support a large influx of Chinese immigrants
38.
These were community centers built in slum neighborhoods in New York to provide assistance to immigrants
a)
Tent Cities
b)
Tammany House
c)
Settlement Houses
d)
YMCA
39.
This movement sought to teach immigrants American Customs and language and forget their own?
a)
Dawes Act
b)
Americanization Movement
c)
Homestead Act
d)
The Sherman Act
40.
This term refers to the mixture of diverse cultures and a nickname to describe the cultures in the United States
a)
Tennements 
b)
Political Machine
c)
Nativism
d)
Melting Pot
41.
What is the main purpose of patronage?
a)
To increase Government funds
b)
To increase government efficiency
c)
to reward one's supporters
d)
to avoid concentrating power in one individual or group
42.
An example of patronage would be
a)
bribing a government official
b)
assassinating a public official
c)
saying one thing and doing another
d)
appointing a friend to a political position 
43.

Which statement best explains how the application of electricity in the early 1900s affected the development of the U.S. economy?

a)

Long-distance travel became more expensive.

b)

College education became more accessible.

c)

Manufacturing processes became more efficient.

d)

Household appliances became more costly.

44.

How did the invention of Thomas Edison's Electric Lamp (aka light bulb) affect industry?

a)

Machines needed to be repaired less frequently.

b)

Products could be manufactured on an assembly line.

c)

Businesses needed to hire skilled workers.

d)

Factories could extend working hours.

45.

Populist Demands in the Late 1800s


o Regulation of railroad shipping charges

o A graduated income tax

o Free and unlimited coinage of silver


The demands most reflected the concerns of-

a)

small farmers in need of affordable credit

b)

robber barons pursuing higher profits

c)

prominent bankers who controlled the money supply

d)

immigrant workers seeking economic justice

46.
According to supporters of free silver, how would bimetallism help the economy?
a)
Backing currency with both gold and silver would make money more available, raise prices, and help farmers pay loans to repay debts
b)
Silver would lower the prices of goods, where gold raised prices, thus allowing people to purchase more goods
c)
Silver was much rarer, thus could help cause deflation and keep the price of goods low
d)
Silver and Gold would be given to farmers for free to pay of their debts at zero cost
47.
Which was NOT part of the populist platform?
a)
Bimetalism
b)
Popular vote for senators
c)
8-hour work day and restrictions to immigration
d)
The US government purchasing US farms, allowing citizens to move to bigger industrial cities like Chicago
48.
The process of abandoning one's beliefs and way of life to be part of main stream culture. Example- Native Americans giving up their way of life to be part of white culture
a)
Assimilation 
b)
Suffrage
c)
Enfranchisement 
d)
Homestead
49.
African Americans who moved from post-Reconstruction South to Kansas under the Homestead Act
a)
Exodusters
b)
Migrants
c)
Populists
d)
Bonanza Farmers
50.
What was the objective of the Grange?
a)
band together for farmers economic rights
b)
raised prices
c)
elect Republican
51.
Monetary system desired by the Populists that was backed by both gold and silver
a)
bimetallism
b)
gold standard
c)
fiat money
d)
silver standard
52.
This speech was about monetary policy and was given by William Jennings Bryan during his campaign for president in 1896
a)
Gettysburg Address 
b)
Cross of Gold Speech 
c)
Emancipation Proclamation 
d)
Follow the Yellow Brick Road Declaration 
53.
Which caused the rise of Populism?
a)
rising agricultural prices
b)
The use of silver instead of greenbacks
c)
Calls for racial segregation
d)
The inability of farmers to pay off their debts
54.
How many acres could you get from the Homestead act?
a)
50
b)
100
c)
160
55.
The transcontinental railroad ______
a)
connected east and west
b)
connected north and south
56.
What took land from Indian tribes and promoted assimilation?
a)
Homestead Act
b)
Morril Act
c)
Dawes Act
d)
Reconstruction Act
57.
What gave settlers 160 acres of land in exchange for the settlers "improving" their new land?
a)
Homestead Act
b)
Dawes Act
c)
Morril Act
d)
Reconstruction Act
58.
What took land from Indian tribes and promoted assimilation?
a)
Homestead Act
b)
Morril Act
c)
Dawes Act
d)
Reconstruction Act
59.

What did the Homestead Act offer?

a)

a new home for travelers

b)

a stop along the Oregon Trail

c)

free land after 5 years of living on it.

60.

_________ integration is when a corporation combines many businesses of the same type into one large corporation.

a)

Vertical

b)

Horizontal

c)

Laissez-faire

d)

Monopolized

61.
Match the person to the invention: Samuel Morse
a)
Steam-powered locomotive 
b)
Steamboat
c)
Steel plow
d)
Telegraph
62.
Match the person to the invention: Robert/Cyrus McCormick
a)
Textile Mills
b)
Interchangeable Parts
c)
Sewing Machine
d)
Mechanical Reaper
63.
This event was held in New York in 1848 to discuss women’s rights.
a)
Seneca Falls Convention
b)
Temperance Convention
c)
Abolitionist Convention 
d)
Sentiments Convention
64.

Founder of Standard Oil. The richest man in the history of the USA (if he were alive today, he’d have a $300 billion fortune).

a)

Andrew Carnegie

b)

John D. Rockefeller

c)

Cornelius Vanderbilt

d)

Alexander Graham Bell

65.

Controlling an industry from the “ground up”—owning everything a business needs to carry out its daily operations. Carnegie used this method to dominate the steel industry.

a)

Horizontal Integration

b)

Vertical Integration

66.

“There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder of success unless he be willing to climb himself.” This quote BEST represents the idea of

a)

the Gospel of Wealth

b)

Social Darwinism

c)

Laissez Faire

d)

Bread and Butter Unionism

67.

“Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.” This quote BEST represents the idea of

a)

The Gospel of Wealth

b)

Social Darwinism

c)

Laissez Faire

d)

Bread and Butter Unionism

68.

A “hands’ off” government approach toward business regulation is called ______. Basically, government does not interfere with business in any way.

a)

Laissez-Faire

b)

Protective Tariffs

c)

Capital

d)

Typewriter

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