APUSH 06 Gilded Age

Which of the following best describes the main idea of Andrew Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth?

• Privately held wealth should be handed over to the government to be redistributed 
• Wealthy individuals should use their wealth for social benefit
• Parents have an obligation to pass on their wealth to their children
• Accumulating large amounts of wealth violates Christian principals

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

• World War I
• Progressive Era
• Gilded age
• Roaring Twenties

During the Gilded age, workers came together under ___________________________ to work for better pay, working conditions, and less hours.

• Philanthropy
• Labor Unions
• Political Bosses
• Credit Unions

The Farmer's Alliance, the Grange, and the ______________ stood for additional government regulation of trade, currency,  and the protection of other farmers' interests.

• Progressives
• Free Soil Party
• Knights of Labor
• Populists

In 1890, who wrote about and photographed the horrible living conditions of America's working poor in the book How the Other Half Lives?

• Upton Sinclair
• Ida Tarbell
• Ida Wells
• Jacob Riis

William Graham Sumner, a researcher during the Gilded Age,  believed that government programs to help the poor were useless because people had a certain place that could not be changed.  This philosophy was called...

• Evolution
• Monetary Policy
• Social Darwinism
• Welfare Capitalism

Which of these best describes life in a turn of the century tenement?

• Very crowded
• Spreading sickness and disease
• No windows, heat, or plumbing
• All of the above

During the age of industrialization, the South

• was not targeted by northern industrialists who sought to introduce factories into the region
• received preferential treatment from the railroads
• turned away from agriculture
• remained overwhelmingly rural and agricultural

One of the methods by which post-Civil War business leaders increased their profits was 

• Elimination of as much competition as possible
• Supporting a centrally planned economy
• Funding research on new technologies
• Elimination of the tactic of vertical integration

Late nineteenth-century farmers believed that their difficultues stemmed from

• low tariff rates
• overproduction
• a deflated currency and low prices for their agricultural goods
• immigration lawas