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Guilded Age Review

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who is the person who was the robber baron of the oil industry?

a)

John D. Rockefeller

b)

Andrew Carnegie

c)

Thomas Edison

d)

Henry Bessemer

2.

Who introduced an efficient means of retrieving oil from under the earth's surface?

a)

Henry Bessemer

b)

John D. Rockefeller

c)

Edwin Drake

d)

Andrew Carnegie

3.

Who perfected the incandescent light bulb?

a)

Elisha Otis

b)

Henry Bessemer

c)

Edwin Drake

d)

Thomas Edison

4.

Who developed an efficient technique for transforming iron to steel?

a)

Elisha Otis

b)

Thomas Edison

c)

Henry Bessemer

d)

Mark Twain

5.

Who made his fortune off of the steel industry?

a)

Andrew Carnegie

b)

John D. Rockefeller

c)

Henry Bessemer

d)

J.P. Morgan

6.

Which of the following is NOT a challenge during Urbanization?

a)

Riots

b)

Fire

c)

Crime

d)

Sanitation

7.

What made it possible to construct skyscrapers in the late 1800s?

a)

Sewing Machine

b)

Railroads

c)

Barbed Wire

d)

Bessemer process and elevator

8.

Who led his troops into Little Bighorn River?

a)

Jon H. Chisholm

b)

Joseph L. Gildon

c)

George A. Custer

d)

William J. Fetterman

9.

What is the term for former slaves who settled in the Great Plains during Reconstruction?

a)

Social Reformers

b)

New Immigrants

c)

Scallywags

d)

Exodusters

10.

What act outlawed the formation of trusts that interfered with free trade?

a)

The Sherman Anti-Trust Act

b)

Clayton Anti-Trust Act

c)

The American Indian Citizenship Act

d)

The Dawes General Allotment Act

11.

What dangerous disease caused by poor public health systems, killed thousands in the 1800s?

a)

Pneumonia

b)

Cholera

c)

Typhoid

d)

Tuberculosis

12.

What was introduced to benefit the railroad companies and train travelers?

a)

Telegraph

b)

Light Bulb

c)

Time Zones

d)

Steel Plow

13.

What did Elisha Otis design?

a)

Telegraph

b)

Steel Plow

c)

Mechanical Reaper

d)

Elevator

14.

What man demanded all rights guaranteed by the constitution for African Americans?

a)

W.E.B. Du Bois

b)

Booker T. Washington

c)

Mark Twain

d)

Elisha Otis

15.

What novelist wrote Hucklebery Finn?

a)

Thomas Edision

b)

Edwin Drake

c)

William Randolph Hearst

d)

Mark Twain

16.

Who published the newspaper the Morning Journal?

a)

Henry Bessemer

b)

William Randolph Hearst

c)

Mark Twain

d)

Elisha Otis

17.

Which place did immigrants arriving on the East Coast stop before gaining entry into the U.S.?

a)

Angel Island

b)

Haymarket Place

c)

Ellis Island

d)

Chishlom Trail

18.

What term describes a rise in anti-immigrant groups and a demand for immigration restrictions?

a)

Social Darwinism

b)

Assimilation

c)

Americanization

d)

Nativism

19.

Which of the following restricted voting for both poor White and African Americans in the South?

a)

Property Tax

b)

Poll Tax

c)

Literacy Test

d)

15th Amendment

20.

What was the immigration station off the coast of California?

a)

Angel Island

b)

Ellis Island

c)

Hull House

d)

Haymarket Place

21.

What is meant by the term Americanization?

a)

Limiting immigrants in the US

b)

Improve living conditions in cities

c)

Assimilate people of various cultures into the dominant culture

d)

Encourage people to move from cities to farms

22.

What group of people founded settlement houses?

a)

Immigrants

b)

Industrial Workers

c)

Social Reformers

d)

Political Machines

23.

What woman founded Hull House?

a)

Ida B Wells

b)

Clara Barton

c)

Jane Addams

d)

Lucretia Mott

24.

What is owning all the buisnesses in a particular field?

a)

Trusts

b)

Antitrusts

c)

Vertical Intergration

d)

Horizontal intergration

25.

What act gave someone 160 acres of free land in the west?

a)

Homestead Act

b)

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

c)

Civil Rights Act of 1875

d)

Compromise of 1877

26.

What was the first labor union?

a)

Knights of Labor

b)

American Federation of Labor

c)

Women's worker union

d)

American Federation of Teachers

27.

What kind of workers joined the American Federation of Labor

a)

Women and childres

b)

Farmers

c)

Specific skilled workers

d)

African American laborers

28.

What did Jacob Riis write?

a)

Uncle Toms Cabin

b)

The Morning Star

c)

The Jungle

d)

How the Other Half Lives

29.

What term is known as the “people’s party” that focused on the dangers of political corruption and unresponsive government?

a)

Populism

b)

Marxism

c)

Facism

d)

Whigs

30.

This type of economic system allowed for the growth of big business and monopolies by supporting minimal government interference in the economy

a)

Capitalism

b)

Supply and Demand

c)

Laissez-Faire

d)

Marxism

31.

What law gave Native Americans citizenship in the United States?

a)

Homestead Act

b)

Dawes Act

c)

The Native American Alliance

d)

American Indian Citizenship Act of 1924

32.

Which of the following best describes the “Tin Pan Alley”?

a)

A Jewish Ghetto

b)

A part of NYC that became a hub for music and literature

c)

Settlement houses

d)

The idea that people of all different nationalities would blend to create a single culture

33.

What group of people exposed the corruption in politics by publishing it in newspapers?

a)

Muckrakers

b)

Political Machines

c)

Native American Alliance

d)

The NAACP

34.

Which movement called for immediate rights and protection to vote for African Americans?

a)

The NAACP

b)

The Anti-Defamation League

c)

The Niagra Movement

d)

The Social Gospel Movement

35.

This law was made to reduce competition for jobs on the West coast by prohibiting immigration from China ?


a)

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

b)

Homestead Act

c)

Dawes Act

d)

Chinese Exclusion Act

36.

What is the theory that only the fit survive?

a)

Facism

b)

Social Darwinism

c)

Marxism

d)

Communism

37.

How did political machines win the loyalty of large immigrant groups?

a)

Promised Gold

b)

Promised to solve Immigrant problems

c)

Promised Land

d)

Promised a better sytem of getting jobs

38.

Who wrote the book The Jungle about the horrors of the meat packing industry?

a)

Upton Sinclair

b)

Mark Twain

c)

Jacob Riis

d)

Henry Bessemer

39.

What riot occured in Chicago by the Federation of Trades and Labor Unions that turned violent with bombing and gunfire?

a)

Homestead Strike

b)

Pullman Strike

c)

Haymarket Strike

d)

Garment Workers Strike

40.

What strike was held by steel workers outside of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania?

a)

Haymarket Strike

b)

Pullman Strike

c)

Garment Workers Strike

d)

Homestead Strike