Gilded Age Quiz

The best example of laissez-faire is:

• Government dismisses for holidays

• Government shuts down factory

• Government raises taxes on business

• Government adopts a policy of non-regulation of business

A popular form of business during the industrial revolution was

• Corporation

• Monopoly

• Political Machine

Which of the following is a true statement of a corporation

• allowed businesses to raise money by selling stock

• always became monopolies

• encouraged workers to form business cooperatives

Which of the following is NOT a characteristics of the free enterprise system?

• citizens buy and sell products based on supply and demand

• no unemployment

• competition keep prices low

• profit motive encourages production

Trusts were used by Gilded Age industrialists to --

• Work cooperatively with labor unions

• Increase profits by decreasing competition

• Promote fair business practices in the market

• Exclude immigrant workers from factory jobs

During the nineteenth-century the United States was beginning to change from -

• A mostly agricultural society to an industrial one

• A direct democracy to a representative one

• A slave-owning society to one without slavery

• A foreign policy of isolationism to one of interventionism

SELECT TWO Identify two of the reasons that the US rapidly became an urban nation during the Gilded Age.

• A lack of farmland

• An increase of factory jobs

• Millions of new immigrants

• People could grow their own food in cities

The poster above is an example of

• Nativism

• Quotas

• Assimilation

• Chinese Immigration Act

What was one reason for the expansion of political machines in the late nineteenth century?

• Local governments struggled to provide basic services due to increased immigration

• Settling in ethnic neighborhoods ultimately failed to help immigrants adjust to life in the city

• Federal restrictions prevented voters from influencing government decisions at the local level

• The economy was too tightly regulated to allow urban growth

“Be it enacted…the coming of Chinese laborers to the United States be…suspended; and during such time it shall not be lawful for any Chinese laborer to come, or…to remain within the United States.”

--Chinese Exclusion Act, May 6, 1882

The law above contributed most directly to -

• larger availability of Chinese workers

• an increase in immigration

• limited numbers of immigrant laborers

• reduction in immigrant wages