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WorksheetsUnit 1 - The Gilded Age Review
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Who were the new Immigrants?
Immigrants from Great Britain, Ireland and Germany
Immigrants from the Caribbean Island
Immigrants from Canada and Greenland
Immigrants from Poland, Russia, Austria-Hungary and Italy
The major checkpoint where immigrants came into the United States was [blank] located in New York City
(a)
Who was Samuel Gompers?
A major entrepreneur over the Steel Industry
The founder of the American Federation of Labor Union
The creator of the Interstate Commerce Act
The leader of the Homestead Strike
This was designed to prevent companies from engaging in unfair practices that eliminated competition.
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Interstate Commerce Act
Labor Unions
Monopoly
These businessmen sometimes used ruthless tactics to destroy competition and keep workers wages low.
Captains of Industry
Philanthropists
Knights of Labor
Robber Barons
This prohibited unfair practices by railroads such as charging higher rates for shorter routes.
Interstate Commerce Act
National Market
Sherman Anti-trust Act
Clayton Anti-trust Act
This is the act of "charitable giving."
Laissez-Faire
Beneficiary
Philanthropy
Frugality
When there is complete control of a product or service; the elimination of fair competition.
Dictatorship
National Market
Opportunity Cost
Monopoly
Who made their fortune refining oil; founded Standard Oil?
Samuel Gompers
John D. Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
JP Morgan
He was a Scottish immigrant who made his fortune in steel; known for the Gospel of Wealth.
Samuel Gompers
JP Morgan
Andrew Carnegie
John D. Rockefeller
The theory that government should not interfere in the operation of the free market.
Maslow
Bessemer Process
Free Enterprise
Laisez-Faire
[Blank] was the type of housing that the New Immigrants lived in once the reached America
(a)
The Americans who discriminated against the New Immigrants and felt like they were superior and the "true Americans"
Anarchists
Nativists
Communists
Daoists
What attracted the New Immigrants to America during the Gilded Age?
the abundance of rural farmland
The opportunity to run for political office in major cities
The Gold Rush taking place on the west coast
Jobs in factories were little or no skill was required
The name of a powerful, yet corrupt, political machine in New York City in the late 19th century
Carnegie Hall
Tammany Hall
Rockefeller Center
Federal Hall
The process of assimilating immigrants into American culture
Americanization
Prestidigitation
Columbianization
Industrialization
Who was the leader of the Tammany Hall Political Machine in the late 19th century?
Jefferson Davis "Boss" Hogg
Samuel Gompers
William "Boss" Tweed
JP Morgan
Entrepreneurs of the Gilded Age were often known as [blank] because of their ruthless tactics to control their market and eliminate competition
(a)
an organized group of workers who unite to make decisions about conditions affecting their work were known as [blank]
(a)
