How did robber barons earn their fortune?

Unethical and ruthless practices

The forty-niners were

people who left their homes in search of gold in 1849

What's addressed in the cartoon?

excessive power of big business

Based on the cartoon, what conclusion can be reached about the United States in the early 1880s?

Critics felt workers were being oppressed by business monopolies

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1
A carpetbagger was a southerner in favor of Reconstruction
False
True
2
Plessy v. Ferguson states that segregation was allowed as long as institutions were separate but equal
True
False
3
The right to vote was protected to all citizens despite gender was the
19th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
18th Amendment
4
Who produced most of US steel by 1901?
John D. Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
J.P. Morgan
Michael Pettaway Tomlin
5
Social Darwinism deals with survival of the fittest of the strongest company surviving
True
False
6
How did robber barons earn their fortune?
Taking a high financial risk
Interest charged on mortages
Unethical and ruthless practices
Two firms joining together
7
After the Civil War, what was the purpose of sending Native American children to boarding schools?
Learn math and science material to help back home at their reservations
To gain US citizenship for their family members born outside the USA
To Americanize them
Teach their culture and customs to the American teachers
8
Who was the President of the Confederate States of America?
Robert E Lee
Jefferson Davis
Abraham Lincoln
Ulysses Grant
9
The forty-niners were
An organization of labor union officials in Tennessee
Immigrants coming from Mexico to Texas in search of silver
Nickname for Joe Montana's close friends and agents
people who left their homes in search of gold in 1849
10
Who flew the first successful plane?
The Mario Brothers
The Tuskegee Airmen
Amelia Earhart
The Wright Brothers
11
The Gentleman's Agreement was an act to restrict immigration to the US from which country?
Germany
United Kingdom
Japan
China
12
What's addressed in the cartoon?
the influence of labor unions
excessive power of big business
dangerous conditions of factory labor
corruption of political machines in American cities
13
The Civil War was primarily based on slavery
False
True
14
Who was the first president to get impeached?
Bill Clinton
Andrew Johnson
Richard Nixon
Andrew Jackson
15
Based on the cartoon, what conclusion can be reached about the United States in the early 1880s?
Monopolies owned most US manufacturers
Critics felt workers were being oppressed by business monopolies
Essential to economic growth although monopolies overcharged customers
Government leaders taking command to curb powers of business monopolies

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