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Gilded Age Vocabulary

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The Gilded Age

a)

This period, although tainted by various political schemes, led to the development of many new industries.

b)

book by Andrew Carnegie that argued that the wealthy have an obligation to give something back to society

2.

Gospel of Wealth

a)

book by Andrew Carnegie that argued that the wealthy have an obligation to give something back to society.

b)

the notion that the industrialists should own the poor and not help financial in their struggles

c)

The idea that leading steel producer at the time would own the first billion-dollar corporation

d)

A news article about a cartoonist for the New York Times that drew many famous political cartoons including one of Boss Tweed.

3.

Populism

a)

the political doctrine that supports the rights and powers of the common people in their struggle with the privileged elite

b)

the social doctrine that supports the rights and powers of the privileged elite over the poor

c)

the common knowledge that supports the rights and powers of doctors over nurses

d)

the political doctrine that supports the rights and powers of the immigrants than with the Native Americans

4.

Political Machines

a)

A corrupt group of men who act as fake politicians

b)

An organized group that controls a political party in a city & offers services to voters & businesses in exchange for political & financial support

c)

A high technological device that works to figure out the outcome of elections held in both local and state elections

5.

Social Darwinism

a)

An alliance of trade and craft unions; used strikes as a major tactic

b)

a process which is caused it to be done by a machine or machines

c)

An economic & social philosophy supposedly based on the biologist Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection

d)

the process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.

6.

Chinese Exclusion Act 1882

a)

A theory that only the Chinese are not allow to enter Russia

b)

A law that prohibits all Chinese to trade only with the US

c)

A law that prohibited all Chinese except students, teachers, merchants, tourists and government officials from entering the US

d)

A policy that only allows China exclusively to work with the United States in trade

7.

Sherman Antitrust Act (1890)

a)

A law that was intended to prevent the creation of monopolies by making it illegal to establish trusts that interfered with free trade

b)

A law that was allow monopolies to flourish in the United States

c)

A policy that processes whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.

d)

An alliance of trade and craft unions; used strikes as a major tactic

8.

Industrialization

a)

the process of social and economic change whereby a human group is transformed from a pre-industrial society into an industrial one

b)

company’s taking over its suppliers and distributors and transportation systems to gain total control over the quality and cost of its product

c)

A labor organization for unskilled workers formed by a group of radical unionists and socialists

9.

Businessmen known for their positive contributions to the modern industrial economy

a)

Captains of Industry

b)

Industrial pirates

c)

Machine Politics

d)

Bessemer Process

10.

Thomas Edison

a)

best known as the inventor of cereal

b)

inventor of the electric car

c)

inventor best known for his invention of the electric light bulb

d)

best known for his invention of vaccinations