Gilded Age Review

Which of the following best characterizes the Gilded Age?

• the discovery of goldfields in the west led to an increase in the amount of money issued for circulation

• industrialists used their connections with corrupt government officials for material gain and political power

• in the deep south a sharp increase in immigration brought a boom in construction and industry

• small, family owned farms were bought and consolidated to form large agricultural

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

• the growth of big business

• involvement in foreign wars

• the acquisition of foreign territories

• increased temperance regulations

Which action is best described by this excerpt?

• Elected leaders helped immigrants to assimilate to life in the United States

• Political machines justified corruption while providing benefits to communities

• progressive leaders protested eminent domain laws in the United States

• Muckrakers tried to uncover government scandals in urban communities

This legislation affected how federal employees were hired. The law now required government jobs to be --

• based on the political party affiliation of the applicant

• determined by a merit system based on civil service examinations

• based on the approval of lawmakers

• set aside for business executives of large corporations

Which issue is the is cartoon addressing?

• Political Corruption

• Temperance

• Civil service reform

• Segregation

what was one DIRECT effect of the business practice discussed in this excerpt?

• Employees were prevented from buying stock

• There was decreased competition among producers

• Consumers were denied access to goods

• there was a lack of employment opportunities for immigrants

Which result completes this diagram?

• Ratification of a suffrage amendment

• building of the transcontinental railroad

• passage of prohibition legislation

• expansion of labor unions

in this excerpt, Justice Harlan is warning against?

• a civil service based on patronage rather than merit

• allowing powerful monopolies to dominate interstate commerce

• a lack of federal funding for essential transortation systems

• allowing labor unions to interfere with production goals

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

• a mostly rural society to a mostly urban one

• a slave-owning society to one without slavery

• a foreign policy of isolationism to one of interventionism

• a direct democracy to a representative one

what was one effect of the event described in this headline?

• increased support for gender equality in labor union membership

• decreased support for socialism by labor union members

• increased federal government involvement in labor union activities

• decreased federal government surveillance of labor union leaders