WorksheetsEOC Gilded Age Quiz
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 13mins
Which application of a new technology can be attributed to an invention of Thomas Edison?
Refrigerated railroad cars allowed food to be transported long distances.
Light bulbs made it efficient for factory workers to work at night.
Diesel engines were used in the production of airplanes.
Sonar technology was used to track submarines.
Which result completes this diagram?
Ratification of suffrage amendment.
Building of the transcontinental railroad.
Passage of prohibition legislation
Expansion of labor Unions
How have these shifts affected the physical environment?
Water shortages occurred as more people moved to rural areas.
Air pollution levels increased as the government decreased regulations.
Cropland eroded as farmers used outdated agricultural techniques.
Cities grew in size as previously used farmland was absorbed into urban areas.
Which demographic change in the United States is most associated with this transformation?
Increased property values in rural areas
Increased life expectancy in urban areas.
Increased birth rates in rural areas
Increased migration to urban areas.
Which action is best described by this excerpt?
Elected leaders helped immigrants to assimilate to life in the United States.
Political machines justified corruption while benefits to communities.
Progressive leaders protested eminent domain laws in the United States.
Muckrakers tried to uncover government scandals in urban communities.
Which factor prompted the Americanization movement of the early twentieth century?
The increasing numbers of immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe.
The strengthening of Jim Crow laws in the southern United States.
The rising tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union.
The growing concern about environmental issues in the western United States.
What was the main reason given for the creation of these restrictions?
Preventing the depletion of natural resources.
Discouraging anti-American activism.
Reducing competition for U.S. jobs.
Addressing a lack of urban housing.
The process describe above led to-
peaceful resolution of territorial disputes with American Indians
the establishment of agricultural communities on the American Frontier.
federal regulation of agriculture.
a decline in immigration to urban areas.
Which word best explains the changes shown in these photographs?
Immigration
Assimilation
Nullification
Nativism
How did expansion of railroad transportation most benefit farmers in the United States?
By raising consumer price of agricultural products
By increasing the variety of locally grown crops
By providing farmers with affordable access to distant markets
By encouraging farmers to form the first agricultural cooperatives.
Which of the following best characterizes the Gilded Age?
The discovery of goldfields in the West led to an increase in the amount of money issued for circulation.
Industrialists used their connections with corrupt government officials for material gain and political power.
In the Deep South a sharp increase in immigration brought a boom in construction and industry.
Small, family owned farms were bought and consolidated to form large agricultural corporations.
