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Question 1

What is the Gilded Age?

Answer 1

The late nineteenth century was a period of intense change that transformed the United States from a predominantly rural nation into a modern industrial society.

Question 2

What is industrialization?

Answer 2

The process of social and economic change whereby a human group is transformed from a pre-industrial society into an industrial one.

Question 3

What is urbanization?

Answer 3

The social process whereby cities grow and societies become more urban.

Question 4

What is immigration?

Answer 4

The process of foreign citizens leaving their homeland to live and work in a different country.

Question 5

What are Robber Barons?

Answer 5

A term used for the businessmen and bankers who dominated the United States industries during the 19th century.

Question 6

What does rural mean?

Answer 6

(Also referred to as ‘the country’ or ‘the countryside’) large and isolated areas of a country, often with low populations.

Question 7

What does urban mean?

Answer 7

Belonging to, or relating to, a town or city.

Question 8

What is agrarian?

Answer 8

The ownership and use of land, especially farmland, relating to the part of a society or economy that is concerned with agriculture.

Question 9

What is industrial?

Answer 9

Having highly developed industries, relating to the part of a society or economy that is concerned with industry.

Question 10

What is laissez-faire?

Answer 10

The policy that is based on the idea that governments and the law should not interfere with business, finance, or the conditions of people’s working lives.

Question 11

What are tariffs?

Answer 11

Taxes imposed by a government on imported or exported goods.

Question 12

What are political machines?

Answer 12

A political organization that controls enough votes to maintain political and administrative control of its community.

Question 13

What is social Darwinism?

Answer 13

A theory that maintained that societies evolved by a natural process through which most fit members survived and demonstrated their fitness by gathering property, wealth, and social status.

Question 14

What are trusts?

Answer 14

Big companies/corporations that dominated the economic scene during the Gilded Age.

Question 15

What is a melting pot?

Answer 15

A place where immigrants of different cultures or races form an integrated society.

Question 16

What are birds of passage?

Answer 16

Immigrants who would enter America during the 19th century that would work until they made enough money to return home and purchase a piece of land.

Question 17

What was the Americanization Movement?

Answer 17

A system designed to assimilate immigrants into American by educating them in speech, ideals, traditions, and ways of life.

Question 18

What are tenements?

Answer 18

A large, old building which is divided into a number of individual flats.

Question 19

What is mechanization?

Answer 19

A process where tasks are done by machines when they were previously done by people.

Question 20

What are labor unions?

Answer 20

An organization that represents the rights and interests of workers to their employers.

Question 21

What is the American Dream?

Answer 21

The opportunity and freedom for all citizens to achieve their goals and become rich and famous if only they work hard enough.

Question 22

What is assimilation?

Answer 22

The process whereby a minority group (immigrant) gradually adopts the customs and attitudes of the host culture (America).

Question 23

What is the Progressive Era?

Answer 23

A period of American history where reformers were committed to improving the conditions in American life.

Question 24

What is a direct primary?

Answer 24

A system of voting that allowed citizens to hold elections to choose candidates from each party to run for office in general elections.

Question 25

What is recall?

Answer 25

A process where voters could remove an elected official before his/her term expired if enough voters signed a petition.

Question 26

What is direct initiative?

Answer 26

A lawmaking change that allows citizens to propose and pass a law directly without involving the state legislature.

Question 27

What is a Square Deal?

Answer 27

A term used to describe various progressive reforms sponsored by the Roosevelt administration.

Question 28

What is the Bull Moose Party?

Answer 28

A name given to the Progressive political party, formed to support Theodore Roosevelt’s candidacy for the presidency.

Question 29

Who are socialists?

Answer 29

Members who belonged to the Socialist Party who believed in the equal distribution of wealth.

Question 30

What is New Freedom?

Answer 30

A term used to describe President Wilson’s progressive policy in attacking large concentrations of power.