Gilded Age: Big Business and Robber Barons
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Which result completes this diagram?
29Passage of prohibition legislation
Expansion of labor unions
Building of the transcontinental railroad
Ratification of a suffrage amendment
- Q1
Which result completes this diagram?
Passage of prohibition legislation
Expansion of labor unions
Building of the transcontinental railroad
Ratification of a suffrage amendment
30s - Q2
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 the agricultural sector
30s - Q3
During the Gilded Age there was a notable increase in the federal support for
the growth of big business
the acquisition of foreign territories
increased temperance regulations
involvement in foreign wars
30s - Q4
One way the US government responded to the problems caused by the conditions in this list was by
establishing a new tax on capital gains
implementing the silver standard for currency
creating federal jobs program for the unemployed
passing the Interstate Commerce Act
30s - Q5
This cover from a nineteenth century periodical helps illustrate that the United States was beginning to change from
a direct democracy to a representative one
a foreign policy of isolationism to one of interventionism
a mostly rural society to a mostly urban one
a slave-owning society to one without slavery
30s
