Gilded Age

Question 1

Gilded Age

Answer 1

Businesses became wealthy, and some corrupt government officials supported business first polices

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 for mass migration to western territories

Question 4

Monopolies

Answer 4

Total control of a product by one company, laws passed against monopolies to protect consumer prices

Question 5

Andrew Carnegie

Answer 5

Philanthropy to improve society through donations to education and the arts

Question 6

Urbanization

Answer 6

Growth in manufacturing and industry resulted in ppl moving to cities to work in factories

Question 7

Political Corruption

Answer 7

Corrupt government officials have special privilege to companies in return for bribes

Question 8

Immigrants

Answer 8

Came to America for better economic conditions, farm fertile soil, jobs in factories; immigrants move to places near their home country

Question 9

Irish immigrants

Answer 9

Persecuted because they were catholic

Question 10

Nativists

Answer 10

Wanted restrictions on immigration

Question 11

Chinese Exclusion Act

Answer 11

Passed because people in the west did not want to compete with immigrants for jobs

Question 12

Homestead act

Answer 12

Resulted in the settling of the Great Plains and frontier by farmers

Question 13

Dawes Act

Answer 13

Law intended to assimilate Native Americans into American culture