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APUSH PERIOD 6 - Gilded Age
APUSH PERIOD 6 - Gilded Age
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1
Lawyer and politician who supported Populist party and gave the 'Cross of Gold Speech"
William Mckinley
Eugene Debs
William J. Bryan
Samuel Gompers
2
During the late 1800s, business leaders formed trusts in order to
Improve worker productivity
Establish overseas factories
Reduce prices
Eliminate the competition
3
One of the most violent strikes in U.S. over wage cuts. Pinkertons are called in to stop it
Haymarket Riot
Pullman Strike
Great Railroad Strike
Homestead Strike
4
The following are inventors in the 19th century EXCEPT?
Alexander Grahm Bell
Steve Jobs
Wright Brothers
Edison
5
Who was the Tammany Hall political "Boss" in New York City?
William Defoe
William Devane
William Tweed
William Tammany
6
The term "Gilded Age" was coined by American writer
Henry David Thoreau
James Fenimore Cooper
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mark Twain
7
Primary "pull" force attracting immigrants to the United States was
Individual political freedoms
Religious freedom
The nation's reputation for law and order
Economic opportunity
8
West coast immigration station where Asian immigrants, mostly Chinese came through to U.S.
Ellis Island
Angel Island
9
This law provided 160 acres of land to those who settled and lived on it for 5 years.
Treaty of Fort Laramie
Dawes Act 1887
Pacific Railway Act
Homestead Act
10
Single entity controls the entire process of a product, from the raw materials to distribution
Horizontal Consolidation/integration
Verticle Consolidation/integration
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Horizontal integration is the
merger of private and pubic industries
Merger of competitors in the same industry
merger of competitors in different industries
merger of variety of of unrelated businesses
12
tragic event where over 146 men and women were killed because of lack of safety standards
Great Railroad Strike
Boston Police Strike
Haymarket Riot
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
13
The knights of labor revels that members were both skilled and unskilled workers
False
True
14
Established Standard Oil Company, the greatest, wisest, and meanest monopoly known in history
Rockefeller
Dupont
Gould
Carnegie
15
The two immigrants who were prominent in the building of transcontinental railroad
African Americans & Irish
African Americans &Chinese
Chinese & Irish
Irish & Germans
16
Strike that brought down railway system most of the west
Haymarket Riot
Pullman Strike
Great Railroad Strike
Boston Police Strike
17
Which invention and inventor are NOT correctly paired?
Wright Brothers & Plane
Ford & Model T
Edison & Alternating current
Bell & Telephone
18
Knights of labor was led by
Eugene Debs
Terence Powderly
Samuel Gompers
William J. Bryan
19
Riot where police and strikers die. immigrants blamed for bombings and promote nativist feeling
Pullman strike
Haymarket Riot
Great Railroad strike
None of the above
20
Why did immigration to the United States become much more difficult for Chinese after 1882?
Political tensions between China & U.S.
Chinese government banned immigration into U.S.
Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act
Major shipping lines were closed to Chinese immigrants
21
What was the Political Machine that dominated New York city politics
Tammany Hall New York
Harper's Weekly Hall
Thomas Nast Hall
George Plunkitt Hall
22
What allowed for the transformed the American West
Changes in transportation
All of the above
Defeat of Indian tribes
Homestead Act
23
Who was the leader of the American Federation of labor?
None of the above
Samuel Gompers
Terence Powderly
Eugene Debs
24
The populist party advocated for the following EXCEPT
Direct election of senators
Gradual income tax
regulation of the Railroads
Gold Standard
25
The following are all considered Robber Barons EXCEPT?
Jay Gould
Cornelius Vanderbilt
John D. Rockefeller
Samuel Gompers