WorksheetsThe Gilded Age Vocabulary Quiz
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 8mins
An immigrant receiving station that opened in 1892, where immigrants who crossed the Atlantic Ocean were given a medical examination and processed.
Angel Island
Ellis Island
Alcatraz
Liberty Island
The time period in U.S. History where society looked good on the outside, despite the corrupt politics & growing gap between the rich & poor
Gilded Age
Western Expansion
Cold War
Imperialism
An increase in the percentage and in the number of people living in
city
Assimilation
Urbanization
Naturalization
Industrialization
A run-down and often overcrowded apartment house, especially in a poor section of a large city.
Ghetto
Tenement
Townhouse
Skyscraper
Complete control over the entire supply of goods or a service in a particular market.
Monopoly
Philanthropy
Laissez Faire
Free enterprise
Industrialists or big business owners who became rich through ruthless and unethical business practices.
Nativists
Philanthropists
Robber Barons
Laborer
The theory that the economy works best with as few government regulations as possible.
Monopoly
Philanthropy
Laissez Faire
Communism
The process of moving to another country to take up permanent residence.
Immigration
Nativism
Urbanization
Philanthropy
Policies favoring the current citizens as opposed to immigrants.
Immigration
Urbanization
Laissez-Faire
Nativism
During the Gilded Age there was an increase in ____________________ and ___________________ as people moved to U.S. cities looking for economic opportunities.
Work and Infrastructure
Corruption and Laissez-Faire
Urbanization and Immigration
Monopolies and Political Bosses
Gilded means
Covered in a thin layer of copper
Covered in a thin layer of bronze
Covered in a thin layer of gold
Covered in a thin layer of silver
The term "melting pot" refers to:
The process of industrial steel production
The diverse cultural assimilation of immigrants in the United States
The economic mixture of agriculture and industry
The political blending of federal and state powers
The process of rapidly expanding industrial production during the Gilded Age is known as:
Urbanization
Industrialization
Modernization
Mechanization
Which of the following is correct about capitalism?
economic system where private individuals and businesses own and control their own property
Economic system where the government controls all aspects of business
Economic system where an indiviudal has to seek permission as to the type of business they want
A combination of corporations created to reduce competition and control prices
Corporation
Monopoly
Trust
Sweatshop
Which word best describes what you see in this image?
Tenement
sweatshop
Corporation
strike
