
USH Unit 5: Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Quiz by Bethany Copeland
Grade 9-12
Social Studies
Georgia Standards of Excellence
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- Q1When companies got rich off of low paid workers and ripped off consumerscapitalismBig Businesscommunismbusiness ethics30s
- Q2Business owners known for their ruthless and selfish business tacticscaptains of industrycarpetbaggersrobber baronsinnovators30s
- Q3a single company controlling the industry and raising pricesbig businesstrustmonopolyindustrialization30s
- Q4Refers to American and immigrant settlers and pioneers moving westimperialismnationalismmanifest destinywestward expansion30s
- Q5Completed in 1869transcontinental Railroadthe Progressive erathe Industrial Revolution"The Jungle"30s
- Q6Groups who contributed to building railroadsChinese and Irish immigrantsAsian immigrants and slavesformer slaves and Russian immigrantsnone of these30s
- Q7Known as a robber baronCarnegie and RockefellerThomas Edison and Alexander Graham BellUpton SinclairIda Tarbell30s
- Q8Group who depended on buffalo, hurt by expanding railroad linesthe IroquoisNavajoCherokeePlains Indians30s
- Q9revolutionized the ability to fence in landborder guardsnone of theseelectric fencebarbed wire30s
- Q10A major defeat of American troopsthe Battle of Little Bighornall of thesethe Battle of Wounded Kneethe Battle of Yorktown30s
- Q11The last major effort American Indian made to fight back in US Historythe sinking of the U.S.S MaineKing Philip's War (Metacom's War)Wounded KneeLittle Bighorn30s
- Q12Writers known for exposing corrupt bussinessesmuckrakersyellow journalismundercover agentsreporters30s
- Q13Ida Tarbell revealed the truth aboutCarnegie and his steel companysharecroppingRockefeller and Standard Oilthe meatpacking industry30s
- Q14time of Americans trying to solve new problems in societySquare Dealthe New Agethe Progressive EraSecond Great Awakening30s
- Q15The Jungle was athe first full length animated feature filmthe book Ida Tarbell wrotebook about meatpackingthe name of Edison's laboratory30s