Unit 7: Gilded Age
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- Q 1/20Score 0Which statement BEST describes the point of this late-19th century cartoon?29The Federal Government is controlling big business in the United States.American society is being controlled by the coal and steel industries.The United States is increasing its exploration for natural resources.Major industry is in control of much of American government and society.
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- Q1Which statement BEST describes the point of this late-19th century cartoon?The Federal Government is controlling big business in the United States.American society is being controlled by the coal and steel industries.The United States is increasing its exploration for natural resources.Major industry is in control of much of American government and society.30s
- Q2What term BEST describes the U.S. government's policies towards businesses in the late 19th century?MercantilistProtectionistLaissez-faireImperialist30s
- Q3One of the main reasons John D. Rockefeller was able to succeed in the oil industry was because heurged government regulation of the oil industry.treated his competitors fairlyencouraged competitioncombined vertical and horizontal integration30s
- Q4Which of these helped to further the Westward Expansion in the United States after 1865?Abolition of SlaveryLewis and Clark ExpeditionCalifornia Gold RushTranscontinental Railroad30s
- Q5By creating monopolies and establishing trusts, industrial leaders of the late 1800ssecured passage of the Sixteenth Amendment.caused the Panic of 1893.were able to accumulate vast amounts of wealthsecured the election of William McKinley as president in 189730s
- Q6In the 19th century, John D. Rockefeller was MOST associated with what company?U.S. SteelAmerican Telephone and TelegraphGeneral Motors CorporationStandard Oil30s
- Q7What group of immigrants arrived in large numbers on the U.S. west coast for the primary purpose of working on the Transcontinental Railroad in the 19th century?MexicanIrishJapaneseChinese30s
- Q8Standard gauge, standard time, and the Pullman Car all had a tremendous impact on what industry?railroadautomobileairlinemaritime30s
- Q9Which of these would BEST describe an immediate effect of the invention and mass production of the light bulb?railroad companies expanded routesagriculture worked longer hourslonger factory hours for all workerstime became standardized30s
- Q10The beginning of the Industrial Age in the United States is MOST associated with which era?early-1800searly-1900slate-1800slate-1700s30s
- Q11Businessmen during the Gilded Age of the late 19th century often favored relaxed immigration laws because theyvalued cheap and relatively unskilled labor.were advocates of multicultural education.remembered their immigrant heritage.were supporters of the Temperance Movement.30s
- Q12The Pullman Strike (1894) was significant in American labor history because it showed thatunions were infiltrated by anarchists after people were killed during the protest in Chicago.non-violent civil disobedience was a successful way to protest racial segregation in the "Jim Crow" South.unions were powerful enough to break the restrictions placed on them by management.the needs and concerns of union members mattered less to the government than the needs and concerns of industrial executives.30s
- Q13This photograph by Jacob Riis (1889) reflects the conditions that would have been found inindustrial areas.the West.the rural South.Indian Reservations.30s
- Q14Why did most of the immigrants who came to America in the late 19th century settle in the cities?City living was spacious, clean, and far from overpopulated.City living was crowded but there were plenty of recreational activities.Cities were the cheapest places to live and offered unskilled laborers steady jobsPeople had a hard time finding work so they settled into the cities since they could not afford to move.30s
- Q15This political cartoon was published in the 1890s and points to the growingconcern regarding factory working conditions.disparity in wages between laborers and industrialists.power of unions in the United States.involvement of government in private businesses.30s
