Gilded Age

Question 1

Gilded Age

Answer 1

• businesses became wealthy; corrupt government officials
  supported business first policies

Question 2

Electricity

Answer 2

made manufacturing more efficient;

light bulb led to more hours of work = more production

Question 3

Railroads

Answer 3

provided farmers access to distant markets;

allowed Americans to settle the West;

Bessemer steel provided
stronger and cheaper materials
to build

Question 4

Monopolies

Answer 4

• total control of an industry by one company;

laws were passed to stop and protect consumer prices

Question 5

Andrew Carnegie

Answer 5

• philanthropist (donated money to charity)

improved society by donating to
education and the arts

Question 6

Labor Unions

Answer 6

fought for better pay, improved working conditions, and
the end of child labor;

resulted in increased federal involvement

Question 7

Urbanization

Answer 7

rapid industrialization led to people moving to cities for
employment;

caused sanitation problems;

taller buildings built because of
cheaper steel

Question 8

Political Corruption

Answer 8

government officials took bribes;

political machines promised infrastructure and jobs in exchange for votes

Question 9

Immigrants

Answer 9

moved to U.S. for better economic opportunities;

some worked in factories, others farmed;

forced to assimilate (adopt all American culture and forget their own)

Question 10

Nativists

Answer 10

wanted restrictions on immigration;

encouraged assimilation;

viewed immigrants as competition for jobs

Question 11

Chinese Exclusion Act

Answer 11

passed to prevent immigrants from taking jobs from settlers out West

Question 12

Homestead Act

Answer 12

• resulted in farmers settling the Great Plains

Question 13

Dawes Act

Answer 13

• intended to assimilate Native Americans into American
  culture;

divided their tribal land into farm plots