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Gilded Age
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What did
Political Machines
do?
Corrupt cities
Both A and C
pay off women voters
Controling voters, Congress, and the law by paying them off
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Forgotten President, fought trusts and big business corruption with the
Sherman Antitrust Act
Charles Guiteau
Grover Cleveland
Chester Arthur
Benjamin Harrison
3
What does this political cartoon best represent?
How voters were bribed with special privileges
How voters were bribed with toys
How societies were easily manipulated by money
How voters were told how to run an effective business
4
Railroad Tycoon who bought out his competition. Scandal led to government push for regulation
J.P. Morgan
John D. Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
Cornelius Vanderbilt
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Carnegie sold his steel empire to this wall street banker, who founded U.S. Steel Corporation
J.P. Morgan
John D. Rockefeller
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Andrew Carnegie II
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Churches preached that you were rich because you worked hard and the poor didn't T or F?
False
True
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What is FALSE about this political cartoon?
Rich people chose who was going to win the election
Voting was not corrupt during the Gilded Age
Rich people chose men who would let them do corrupt practice
That voting was corrupt during the Gilded Age
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Who is NOT an example of a forgotten president?
Grover Cleveland
James Garfield
Abraham Lincoln
Chester Arthur
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What does this political cartoon show?
Companies with trusts were very powerful
All of the Above
Companies with trusts controlled if laws were passed or not
Companies(Trusts) used Congress as puppets, controlling them
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Bought out the Steel empire with "vertical integration"
Andrew Carnegie
Cornelius Vanderbilt
John D. Rockefeller
All the above
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Someone not born into privilege makes something of themselves, going from poor to rich
"Riches to Rags"
"Rags to Coins"
"Rags to Riches"
"Social Darwinism"
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Forgotten President who tried to control railroads and indians, and Panic of 1893 plagued him
Benjamin Harrison
Chester Arthur
James Garfield
Grover Cleveland
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Forgotten President during passage of Pendleton Act, hiring people based on merit, not politics
Benjamin Harrison
Grover Cleveland
James Garfield
Chester Arthur
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When trusts are made, companies are bought out so there is no competition, or:
Monopoly
Capitalism
Risk
Trust-Busting
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What best describes the
"Gilded Age"
?
Era of technology
Era of industrial innovation
prosperity era through charity
prosperity through corrupt means
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Forgotten President who was assassinated by Charles Guiteau, whose job application was rejected
Grover cleveland
Chester Arthur
Benjamin Harrison
James Garfield
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What was Andrew Carnegie's
Gospel of Wealth
about:
How the wealthy have a moral duty to give back to the poor
How wealth comes only through hard work and luck
How wealth is obtained through status
How the wealthy can do whatever they want with their money
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Term for businessmen who were viewed in a positive image by other businessmen
Robber Bricks
Captains of Industry
Captains of Wealth
Robber Barons
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Person who has power just because they're wealthy
Captain of Industry
Plutocrat
Aristocrat
Robber Baron
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What is NOT a reason the U.S. government took Queen Liliuokalani out of power?
Desire to maintain the Bayonet Constitution(U.S. influenced)
The US government saw that she thought differently than them
The U.S. government thought the queen was a horrible leader
Desire to obtain economic resources from Hawaii(sugar cane)
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Terms for businessmen who were viewed in a negative image by people
Robber Bricks
Robber Barons
Captains of Wealth
Captains of Industry
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Natural selection: "Survival of the fittest" mindset where the ones who are not as fit die off
"Rags to Riches"
Social Darwinism
Socialism
Plutocrat
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What does this political cartoon depict?
Both B and C
The dude ate too many #4's at Taco Bell
Political Boss Tweed- ran Tammany Hall and rigged elections
People who were powerful just because of the money they had
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Owned Standard Oil Company. Richest man in the world through "horizontal integration"(trusts)
John D. Rockefeller
Cornelius Vanderbilt
J.P. Morgan
Andrew Carnegie
