GILDED AGE

Question 1

The period of the Gilded Age was?

Answer 1

1870s-1900s

Question 2

What was the Gilded Age?

Answer 2

A period in which glamour hid corruption.

Question 3

Another name for the Gilded Age was?

Answer 3

Era of Corruption

Question 4

Why did Mark Twain called this era the Gilded Age?

Answer 4

The period was glittering on the surface but corrupt underneath.

Question 5

What is a monopoly?

Answer 5

When a corporation controls the means of production & distribution with no competition.

Question 6

What is Social Darwinism?

Answer 6

The belief that strong people survive & weak people die out

Question 7

What were robber barons?

Answer 7

A person who became rich through ruthless, unscrupulous and unethical business practices.

Question 8

What were capatains of industry?

Answer 8

Business leader whose means of amassing a personal fortune contributes positively to the country in some way.

Question 9

John D. Rockerfeller

Answer 9

Standard Oil Company

Question 10

Andrew Carnegie

Answer 10

Steel Industry

Question 11

John P. Morgan

Answer 11

Banking

Question 12

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Answer 12

Railroads

Question 13

3 factors that contributed to America’s economic growth in the late 19th century.

Answer 13

1. Vast natural resources
2. Cheap labor
3. Geographic security form foreign attacks

Question 14

The battle of little bighorn happened in

Answer 14

June 25, 1876

Question 15

What happened in the battle of little bighorn?

Answer 15

U.S government wants the mineral-rich lands of the Lakota Sioux, South Dakota’s Black Hills.

Question 16

What awarded huge land grants, subsidies, generated huge markets, lots of jobs, rapid industrialization of America & stimulated mining and agriculture in the West by bringing people & supplies?

Answer 16

Railroads

Question 17

Money granted by the government to assist an industry or business is…

Answer 17

Subsidy

Question 18

When was the transcontinental railroad completed?

Answer 18

1869 in Promentary Utah

Question 19

What opened the door for settlers into Arizona?

Answer 19

Gadsen Purchase

Question 20

2 major conflicts in Cochise County in the 1870s & 1800s.?

Answer 20

The Chiracahua Apaches, Norther Republicans & Southern Democrats

Question 21

When was Fort Huachuca established?

Answer 21

1877

Question 22

What signaled the end of the Apache Wars in Cochise County & the area considered safe for settlers?

Answer 22

The surrender of Geronimo

Question 23

Dawes Act of 1877..

Answer 23

Broke up reservations & forced Natives to be farmers

Question 24

Who were the last to surrender in the Southern Indians?

Answer 24

The Chiracahua Apaches in 1886

Question 25

2 rights that native americans lost because of the Dawes Act…

Answer 25

1. No longer negotiate treaties to protect their lands.
2. Could no longer vote on laws governing their fate

Question 26

The second industrial revolution…

Answer 26

A time in American history where cities grew rapidly, labor began to organize & technology increased rapidly.