Unit 6 Review

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

Under the philosophy of __________________________, 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.

• Geopolitical expansion
• Political bosses
• Social Darwinism
• Gospel of Wealth

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

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

The first major farmers' organization was the

• National Grange
• Populists
• Greenback Labor Party
• Farmers' alliance