gilded age

Question 0

Monopoly

Answer 0

-A monopoly is a situation in which is one supplier or seller who can do a service that no one else can do.

Question 1

Spoil system

Answer 1

-The spoil system is when the government gives out jobs as a reward when people do political services.

Question 2

Muckraker

Answer 2

They were early American journalists who reported scandal and political wrongdoing.

Question 3

Labor Union

Answer 3

A group of common workers who negotiate hours, wages, often in a trade or profession, formed to protect and further their rights and interests.

Question 4

Poll tax

Answer 4

-a tax that each adult has to pay in order to vote in an election

Question 5

Suffrage

Answer 5

-The right to vote in political elections

Question 6

Industrial revolution

Answer 6

-the transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation when the use of machines replace the work of humans

Question 7

Imperialism

Answer 7

-a policy of extending a country’s power and influence through diplomacy or military force.

Question 8

Who was Boss Tweed and how was he connected to Tammany Hall?

Answer 8

Boss Tweed was the grand leader of Tammany. Boss Tweed and his group demanded bribes from contractors who did business with the city.
He had a lot of political power, he stole millions of dollars from the city of New York.

Question 9

Who was Upton Sinclair and how was he responsible for improving conditions in meat packaging plants?

Answer 9

United States writer whose novels argued for social reform. Sinclair uncovered the working conditions in meat packing plants. He was a muckraker wrote the book “The Jungle”.

Question 10

What three things came from the compromise of 1877?

Answer 10

1. The north got President Hayes
2. South got less interference by the North in governing their people.
   3 Blacks in the south lost all civil rights with the creation of the “Jim Crow” laws.

Question 11

How did “Jim Crow” south set people apart from one another?

Answer 11

They established laws like separate schools and different drinking fountains.

Question 12

How was the National American Suffrage Womens Association formed?

Answer 12

Two suffragist organizations that had pursued opposite policies in the years following the Civil War. Their main goal was to fight for women’s right to vote.

Question 13

What was the Indian Removal Act?

Answer 13

Gave the right to President Jackson to move Native Americans west of the Mississippi or if they stay where they are and go by the politicial rules.

Question 14

How did the railroads help with the distribution of goods?

Answer 14

The railroad made shipping large amounts of products faster and easier over long distances.

Question 15

Describe Theodore Roosevelt’s “big stick Diplomacy”.

Answer 15

To speak softly, and carry a big stick.The idea of negotiating peacefully, simultaneously threatening with the “big stick”, or the military, ties in heavily with the idea of pursuit of political power that resembles Machiavellian ideals.

Question 16

Describe one example that proved the USA had become world power.

Answer 16

They forced Hawaii to surrender themselves, they got Japan to open their ports, they bought Alaska for their natural resources.

Question 17

Henry Ford:
Make money
Technology production
Technology distribution 
Technology consumption

Answer 17

A. Henry Ford sold automobiles
B. The assembly line helped by making Ford’s cars faster.
C. Technology improvements helped ship cars all over the world.
D. As Ford cars gained more horsepower the demand for them increased.