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1
What major trend related to population happened during the late 1800s?
immigration really decreased
most people moved to the West Coast
people moved to the cities for factory jobs
2
Why was this period called the Gilded age?
The old immigrants welcomed the neww immigrants with gold
it looked great on the surface, but underneath there were problems
people easily found the wealth and the american dream
3
Having separate but equal schools for Blacks and Whites is an example of
Nativism
Literacy Tests
Jim Crow Law
4
What is the term that America is only for Americans, or prejudice against immigrants?
segregation
nativism
assimilation
5
What was the most important contribution of immigrants to American businessmen?
new foods
new traditions
cheap labor
6
Who was the party boss in NYC with the political machine at Tammany Hall?
Boss Turner
Boss Tweed
Boss Tammany
7
What entrepreneur developed the steel industry through the new, Bessemer process for heating steel?
Andrew Carnegie
JP Morgan
Jay Gould
Henry Bessemer
8
What
was not
one of the
problems
during this period inAmerican History?
lack of jobs
Nativism
political machines
monopolies
9
Chinatown and Little Italy are examples of?
immigrant/ethnic neighborhoods
political machines
monopolies
10
Where did the two railroads meet to connect the Transcontinental Railroad?
Promontory Summit, Utah
San Francisco, California
Omaha, Nebraska
11
One reason that political machines gained power in the late 1800’s was that they
worked to end immigration
gave food, jobs and other help forimmigrants
allowed immigrants to have more freedom thatever before
12
All of the following statements about the GildedAge are true EXCEPT?
corporations developed and began to form manymonopolies
the United States became a nation of factories
most of the people earned a good wageand led a nice life
lots of people were moving to & living inthe large cities
13
The policy that government should interfere as little as possible in business:
Laissez-faire
Progressivism
Gilded Age
Monopolization
14
The total value of all goods and services a country produces during a year
Corporation
Monopoly
Trust
Gross national product (GNP)
15
Jim Crow laws did what?
made lynching way worse in the North
made it legal to pay immigrants less
kept blacks & whites separate
16
What were used to keep African Americans from voting in the South?
Poll Tax
Literacy Tests
Grandfather Clause
All of the above
17
What was the name of the immigrant processing station in NY where most immigrants were inspected?
Angel Island
New Foundland
Ellis Island
18
Some industrial leaders used this theory to justify their support of laissez-faire capitalism.
Communism
Marxism
Social Darwinism
Anarchism
19
What event in NYC caused the government to pass laws to make the workplace safer?
formation of the NAACP
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Haymarket Riot
20
Who owned the monopoly on the oil industry?
Morgan
Rockefeller
Carnegie
Vanderbilt
21
The picture is an example of run-down apartments immigrants lived in called?
monopolies
tenements
Jim Crows
22
True or false. The earliest unions were very successful.
True
False
23
Plessy vs. Ferguson had what impact?
protected immigrants
made segregation illegal
"separate but equal" segregation
24
The 13th-15th Amendments were ratified to address what?
Rights for African Americans
Rights for immigrants
Rights for labor unions
25
Which railroad company building the Transcontinental Railroad hired 10,000 Chinese immigrants?
Union Pacific
Central Pacific
