WorksheetsChapter 16: The Gilded Age Honors US History
Total questions: 74
Worksheet time: 37mins
True/False
Cornelius Vanderbilt eventually owned almost all the railroads in America.
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True/False
Andrew Carnegie wrote, “The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.”
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True/False
Chester A. Arthur faced the problem of how to reduce government surpluses of income.
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True/False
The great numbers of immigrants during the Gilded Age slowed the expansion of American industry.
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True/False
American labor leaders welcomed New Immigration as a source of cheap labor.
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True/False
Most Americans were opposed to federal regulation of the railroads.
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True/False
The Sherman Antitrust Act effectively stopped monopolies in the United States.
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True/False
Thomas Edison’s inventions include the phonograph, the motion-picture projector, and the incandescent light bulb.
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True/False
The Homestead Strike was one of the most effective strikes in the history of American labor.
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True/False
“Mugwumps” were Republicans who voted for a Democrat because he stood for reform.
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True/False
By the end of the 1800s, the majority of Americans still worked on farms.
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Which Christian industrial leader lived by the motto “To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success”?
Andrew Carnegie
H. J. Heinz
John D. Rockefeller
Cornelius Vanderbilt
What was one of the main reasons the Republicans lost the 1884 presidential election, their first defeat in twenty-eight years?
They selected a candidate who had been involved in a scandal.
They selected a radical reformer to run as president.
They opposed a high tariff.
The country faced the worst depression in its history.
Which was not a major reason for American industrial growth during the Gilded Age?
immigration
innovative spirit
low tariff
new sources of power
Why did John D. Rockefeller choose to invest in oil refining rather than in one of the other segments of the industry?
Refining was a safer investment.
Competition was minimal.
Refining required a small investment.
Rockefeller knew the most about refining.
What captain of industry began his career as an immigrant working in a textile mill?
Andrew Carnegie
J. P. Morgan
John D. Rockefeller
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Who won the 1896 presidential campaign?
Chester A. Arthur
Grover Cleveland
Benjamin Harrison
William McKinley
What was the most significant communications achievement during the Gilded Age?
telegraph
typewriter
telephone
phonograph
What event discredited the Knights of Labor?
Haymarket Riot
Homestead Strike
Panic of ’93
Pullman Strike
The twin pillars of the “New South” were tobacco and . . .
textiles.
steel.
shipping.
oil.
When did the American Railway Union defy an injunction by federal courts?
Haymarket Riot
Homestead Strike
Panic of ’93
Pullman Strike
What was the chief goal of the Grange during the 1870s?
social contracts for farmers
scientific research in farming
state regulation of railroads
free silver
Which of the following pieces of legislation was designed to make monopolization in business illegal?
McKinley Tariff
Interstate Commerce Act
Pendleton Act
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Who was the most popular realist of the Gilded Age?
Horatio Alger
Stephen Crane
Jack London
Mark Twain
Which of the following pieces of legislation helped eliminate much of the spoils system?
Pendleton Act
Interstate Commerce Act
McKinley Tariff
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
What was the first major trust that became the inspiration for many others?
American Tobacco Company
Standard Oil Company
United States Steel Corporation
American Telephone & Telegraph
Which was not a major element of American society during the Gilded Age?
urbanization
New Immigration
materialism
romanticism
Which of the following government acts most seriously hurt the nation’s economy?
Interstate Commerce Act
McKinley Tariff
“Mongrel Tariff”
Pendleton Act
What philosophy argued that the government was best equipped to promote human progress?
naturalism
Reform Darwinism
Social Darwinism
realism
Why was the tariff of 1883 called the “Mongrel Tariff”?
The tariff banned foreign imports of dogs and sheep.
Numerous amendments made the tariff ineffective.
The tariff aroused violent opposition in the North.
The tariff was passed without the president’s support.
Problems in what industry were the main cause for passage of the Interstate Commerce Act?
oil
railroads
automobile
steel
Most immigrants during the “New Immigration” were from
western Europe
southern and eastern Europe
Southeast Asia
Africa
Who was the most prolific writer of gospel songs and hymns in the nineteenth century?
P. P. Bliss
Fanny Crosby
Sam Jones
Ira Sankey
Which of the following was not one of the issues that dominated American politics at the end of the nineteenth century?
government corruption
tariff revision
taxes
regulation of trusts
Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.
shipping entrepreneur
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Andrew Carnegie
John D. Rockefeller
John Pierpont Morgan
James Buchanan Duke
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steel entrepreneur
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Andrew Carnegie
John D. Rockefeller
John Pierpont Morgan
James Buchanan Duke
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oil-refining entrepreneur
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Andrew Carnegie
John D. Rockefeller
John Pierpont Morgan
James Buchanan Duke
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investment banker
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Andrew Carnegie
John D. Rockefeller
John Pierpont Morgan
James Buchanan Duke
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the South’s tobacco entrepreneur
Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Alva Edison
Samuel Gompers
Stephen Crane
James Buchanan Duke
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inventor of the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Alva Edison
Samuel Gompers
Stephen Crane
James Buchanan Duke
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America’s most prolific inventor
Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Alva Edison
Samuel Gompers
Stephen Crane
James Buchanan Duke
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labor union leader
Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Alva Edison
Samuel Gompers
Stephen Crane
James Buchanan Duke
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corrupt New York politician who controlled the Customs House
Roscoe Conkling
James A. Garfield
Chester A. Arthur
Grover Cleveland
James J. Hill
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president shot at a Washington, D.C., train station
Roscoe Conkling
James A. Garfield
Chester A. Arthur
Grover Cleveland
James J. Hill
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reformed the civil service system
Roscoe Conkling
James A. Garfield
Chester A. Arthur
Grover Cleveland
James J. Hill
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the first Democratic president since the Civil War
Roscoe Conkling
James A. Garfield
Chester A. Arthur
Grover Cleveland
James J. Hill
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built the Great Northern Railroad without any government money
Benjamin Harrison
Jack London
Eugene V. Debs
William Jennings Bryan
James J. Hill
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defeated Grover Cleveland for the presidency
Benjamin Harrison
Jack London
Eugene V. Debs
William Jennings Bryan
William McKinley
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author associated with naturalism
Benjamin Harrison
Jack London
Eugene V. Debs
William Jennings Bryan
William McKinley
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radical leader of the Socialist Party
Benjamin Harrison
Jack London
Eugene V. Debs
William Jennings Bryan
William McKinley
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“the Great Commoner” and free-silver crusader
Dwight L. Moody
Jack London
Eugene V. Debs
William Jennings Bryan
William McKinley
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elected president in 1896
Dwight L. Moody
Jack London
Eugene V. Debs
William Jennings Bryan
William McKinley
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famous evangelist
Dwight L. Moody
Jack London
Eugene V. Debs
William Jennings Bryan
William McKinley
What philosophy advocates government ownership or regulation of the means of production?
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Who won the 1896 presidential election primarily by campaigning from his “front porch”?
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What is the term for a legal device by which a board of trustees is empowered to direct a whole group of companies?
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What severe depression hit America during Grover Cleveland’s second administration?
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What method did businessmen use to control all segments of an industry, from raw materials to marketing?
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This organization formed craft unions for skilled laborers. What was it called?
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What term describes the desire for worldly possessions and the belief that they bring true happiness?
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Which literary school did Mark Twain’s work reflect?
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Who developed the theory of natural selection?
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Who was known as “the Moody of the South”?
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What is the more commonly used name for the Patrons of Husbandry?
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Who wrote Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and other naturalist works?
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What term means a court order forbidding an action?
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The Stalwarts were one of the two factions in the Republican Party during the 1880 election. What was the other?
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Who launched the urban evangelism movement?
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What was another name for the People’s Party?
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What was the name of the first book that presented the theory of evolution?
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True/False
Democrats generally favored high tariffs, and Republicans favored low tariffs.
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True/False
The Civil Service Commission was designed to help stop the abuses of the spoils system.
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True/False
Reform Darwinists believed that man is inherently good.
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True/False
America’s first important labor union, the Knights of Labor, was relatively conservative.
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