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WorksheetsThe Labor of the Gilded Age
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Laissez-Faire Economics
Economic system in which the government does not intervene in business practices
A business practice in which a single manufacturer controls all of the steps used to change raw materials into finished products
A business practice in which a company takes over all of its competitors
Theory that claims the best people in society are the ones who rise to the top
Vertical Integration
Economic system in which the government does not intervene in business practices
A business practice in which a single manufacturer controls all of the steps used to change raw materials into finished products
A business practice in which a company takes over all of its competitors
Theory that claims the best people in society are the ones who rise to the top
Horizontal Integration
Economic system in which the government does not intervene in business practices
A business practice in which a single manufacturer controls all of the steps used to change raw materials into finished products
A business practice in which a company takes over all of its competitors
Theory that claims the best people in society are the ones who rise to the top
Labor Union
An organization of workers that tries to improve working conditions, wages, and benefits for its members
An organized work stoppage intended to force an employer to address union demands
A company tool to fight union demands by refusing to allow employees to enter its facilities to work
A list privately exchanged among employers, containing the names of persons to be barred from employment
Strike
An organization of workers that tries to improve working conditions, wages, and benefits for its members
An organized work stoppage intended to force an employer to address union demands
A company tool to fight union demands by refusing to allow employees to enter its facilities to work
A list privately exchanged among employers, containing the names of persons to be barred from employment
Lockout
An organization of workers that tries to improve working conditions, wages, and benefits for its members
An organized work stoppage intended to force an employer to address union demands
A company tool to fight union demands by refusing to allow employees to enter its facilities to work
A list privately exchanged among employers, containing the names of persons to be barred from employment
Blacklist
An organization of workers that tries to improve working conditions, wages, and benefits for its members
An organized work stoppage intended to force an employer to address union demands
A company tool to fight union demands by refusing to allow employees to enter its facilities to work
A list privately exchanged among employers, containing the names of persons to be barred from employment
Push Factor
A factor that causes people to leave their homelands and migrate to another region
Policy of promoting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants, including the support of immigration-restriction measures
Factors that induce people to move to a new location
A party organization that commands enough votes to maintain control of a city, county, or state
Pull Factor
A factor that causes people to leave their homelands and migrate to another region
Policy of promoting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants, including the support of immigration-restriction measures
Factors that induce people to move to a new location
A party organization that commands enough votes to maintain control of a city, county, or state
Ellis Island
Immigration processing center that open in New York Harbor in 1892
Narrow, low-rise apartment buildings common in cities during the Gilded Age
Journalists who exposed the problems of the Gilded Age
Immigration processing center that opened in San Francisco Bay in 1910
Tenements
Immigration processing center that open in New York Harbor in 1892
Narrow, low-rise apartment buildings common in cities during the Gilded Age
Journalists who exposed the problems of the Gilded Age
Immigration processing center that opened in San Francisco Bay in 1910
Angel Island
Immigration processing center that open in New York Harbor in 1892
Narrow, low-rise apartment buildings common in cities during the Gilded Age
Journalists who exposed the problems of the Gilded Age
Immigration processing center that opened in San Francisco Bay in 1910
Americanization Movement
Policy of promoting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants
Education program designed to help immigrants assimilate to American culture
Law that prohibited further unskilled Chinese immigration in order to reduce competition for jobs
The growth of cities
Chinese Exclusion Act
Policy of promoting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants
Education program designed to help immigrants assimilate to American culture
Law that prohibited further unskilled Chinese immigration in order to reduce competition for jobs
The growth of cities
Urbanization
Policy of promoting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants
Education program designed to help immigrants assimilate to American culture
Law that prohibited further unskilled Chinese immigration in order to reduce competition for jobs
The growth of cities
An entrepreneur is someone who
runs for political office after being successful in the business world
risks their money to start a business with the hopes of making a profit
is elected by a board to run a large corporation like Walmart or Verizon
sells stock to raise funds for their company
During the Gilded Age, immigrants often lived in parts of cities that were:
crowded, run down, and filthy
beautiful and new
spacious
the most expensive
Which of the following would be considered a Pull Factor that attracted Immigrants to the U.S. during the Gilded Age?
The Dawes Act
The Reservation System
Nativism
The Homestead Act of 1862
What were the apartment style houses that many immigrants lived in called?
Tenements
Condos
Shack
Hotel
During the late 19th century, most immigrants to the U.S. found work as ?
Educated professionals
Factory workers
Scientists
Lawyers
Innovation that allowed for a longer work day?
Barbed Wire
Bessemer Process
Light Bulb
Transcontinental Railroad
Which term is used to describe people that have a strong dislike for immigrants?
Nativism
Robber Baron
Muckraker
Captain of Industry
Which innovation allowed for cities to grow upward with the creation of Skyscrapers?
Bessemer Process
Barbed Wire
Transcontinental Railroad
Light Bulb
Who invented the telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Edison
Henry Ford
Samuel Morse
Which of the following was a direct result of immigration during the Gilded Age?
Overcrowded Rural areas
Overcrowded Cities
Decreased Nativism
Improved working conditions
The Gilded Age is infamous for
paying workers high salaries
promoting women and African Americans to positions of leadership
businessmen bribing government officials
the rapid advancements in the field of science
What is another word for inventions that made manufacturing more efficient during the Gilded Age?
Industrialization
Urbanization
Mechanization
Innovations
What innovation promoted settlement and trade by helping ranchers and farmers get their products to market?
Transcontinental railroad
Pony express
Airplane
Automobile
Labor Union
An organization of workers that tries to improve working conditions, wages, and benefits for its members
An organized work stoppage intended to force an employer to address union demands
A company tool to fight union demands by refusing to allow employees to enter its facilities to work
A list privately exchanged among employers, containing the names of persons to be barred from employment
Which of the following was the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices?
Pullman Act
Interstate Commerce Commission
Sherman Antitrust Act
Industrial Regulatory Act
Which of the following strikes included a shootout between strikers and private security guards?
Homestead Strike
Haymarket Riot
Pullman Strike
Populist Campaign
How did political machines get the support of immigrants?
they promised to stop illegal immigration from Latin America
They wasted money on military spending
They helped them find homes and jobs in exchange for votes
They developed a system to make becoming a citizen easier
This term means that there is a big difference in the income of certain groups of people.
industrial capitalism
The gilded Age
economic disparity
industrial capitalists
industrial capitalism means that the production of goods and services is........
owned by shareholders and investors.
owned by foreign leaders.
owned privately by individuals.
owned by a board of directors.
Which word means the right to vote?
independence
servitude
suffrage
segregation
Philanthropy is the
use of money to benefit the community
the study of fossils
The study of Dr. Phil
Spending money on things you want
One of the benefits of free enterprise is that
people are allowed to buy products from foreign countries without paying any taxes
businesses are incentivized to lower their prices so consumers will buy their product
the government determines what goods a company will produce
companies are required by law to pay their employees more than workers in Mexico
Negotiating as a group of employees with an employer:
Collective Bargaining
Barter System
Taxes
Unionizing
The debate on what we should back our currency with was between which two metals:
Gold and Silver
Tungsten and Graphite
Gold and Titanium
Silver and Titanium
Protest in Chicago that led to a bomb being thrown and several deaths:
Haymarket Riot
Great railway strike
Knights of Labor
Reconstruction
Which result completes this diagram?
Ratification of a suffrage amendment
Building of the transcontinental railroad
Passage of prohibition legislation
Expansion of labor unions
The Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor developed in response to the...
increased need to protect worker interests
decreased power of political machines
increased demand for skilled workers
decreased profitability of agricultural sector
Which of the following occurred between 1865 and 1900 as a result of the rapid industrialization of the United States?
Social and economic class divisions began to disappear
Concerns about air pollution led to stricter environmental regulations
Union membership increased as workers sought better pay and conditions
Factory owners introducted wage-equity policies for women in the workplace
This cover from a nineteeth-century periodical helps illustrate that the United States was beginning to change from...
a mostly rural society to a mostly urban one
a slave-owning society to one without slavery
a foreign policy of isolationism to one of interventionism
a direct democracy to a representative one
Why were the people like those shown in this image hopeful about their future?
Nativism and Social Darwinism were expanding in American cities
The U.S. social security system provided financial and medical benefits
There were many jobs and business opportunities in America
American cities had large and comfortable tenement apartment buildings
During the late nineteenth century, many Irish immigrants were discriminated against for being...
opposed to machine politics
loyal to the United Kingdom
conscientious objectors
Roman Catholics
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 is the name given to a company that owns all parts of an industry?
Entrepreneur
Muckraker
Innovation
Monopoly
How can American society best be described during the Gilded Age?
The large majority of Americans are involved in business ownership and are very wealthy
There is a small number of very wealthy millionaires, however many citizens also live in poverty
Huge numbers of American citizens are immigrating to Europe to seek new opportunities
There is an equal number of wealthy and poor citizens
Who was the "Wizard of Menlo Park"
Gionni Marconi
Thomas Edison
John Westinghouse
Nikola Tesla
How many new immigrants came to America between 1880 and 1921?
21 mil
22 mil
23 mil
18 mil
22.5 mil
About how many immigrants settled in cities like NYC, Chicago, Boston and Philadelphia?
1/3
1/5
3/4
2/3
5/8
One of the first American labor unions was -
Knights of labor
AFL
IWW
AFL-CIO
The settling of a dispute by a neutral third party is....
economic disparity
fraud
arbitration
monopoly
