Gilded Age REVIEW

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This period during the 1870s to 1900 is known for its rise of railroads, big business, industrialization and social problems in the United States.

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Gilded age

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During the Gilded age, workers came together to work for better pay, working conditions, and less hours. Leaders such as Samuel Gompers help led many of this workers in....

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Labor Unions

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The innovation of this transportation help open up the national market? Options: boats, railroads, automobiles, horse drawn carriages

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railroads

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During the 19th and early 20th century, these men helped immigrants with jobs and housing in order to control votes during elections?

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political bosses

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Men such as Andrew Carnegie believed in giving money to libraries, museums and schools to help benefit people who wanted to move up in the social ladder.

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philanthropy

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This cover from a nineteenth-century periodical helps illustrate that the United States was beginning to change from —

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a mostly rural society to a mostly urban one

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During the Gilded Age there was a notable increase in federal support for —

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the growth of big business

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Which group of people most likely inspired the creation of this 1893 cartoon? Options: Union leaders, Philanthropists, Political bosses, Nativists

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Nativists

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Which of the following was the main reason for the rapid settlement of the Great Plains during the late 1800s? Options: Congress passed a law requiring all public lands to be sold at auction. Congress passed a law allowing people to claim public land and convert it to private property through homesteading. Speculators bought large parcels of land and then built factory towns to attract new immigrants. Native Americans sold most of their tribal lands directly to railroad companies.

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Congress passed a law allowing people to claim public land and convert it to private property through homesteading.

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Why did the Populist Party want free coinage of silver?

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To increase the amount of money in circulation