Gilded Age Quiz - English

What law was designed to prevent anticompetitive practices in business?

• Sherman Antitrust Act

• Nineteenth Amendment

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Social Darwinism

What term describes the belief in the survival of the fittest applied to society and business?

• Socialism

• Social Darwinism

• Progressivism

• Imperialism

Which labor organization was known for its inclusive membership of skilled and unskilled workers?

• Knights of Labor

• American Federation of Labor (AFL)

• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

• Settlement House Movement

What event involved a violent confrontation between labor protesters and the police in Chicago in 1886?

• Pullman Strike

• Haymarket Riot

• Homestead Strike

• Suffrage Movement

What was a significant factor that influenced immigration at the beginning of the century?

• Urbanization

• Push and Pull Factors

• Social Darwinism

• Suffrage

What term refers to the integration of companies at the same stage of production?

• Vertical Integration

• Horizontal Integration

• Monopoly

• Corporation

Who was known for advocating for the education of African Americans and economic self-sufficiency?

• W.E.B. Du Bois

• Booker T. Washington

• Ida B. Wells

• John D. Rockefeller

What is the term for a process that allows citizens to propose legislation and submit it to the electorate for a vote?

• Referendum

• Initiative

• Recall

• Jingoism

What process allows voters to approve or reject a law passed by the legislature?

• Initiative

• Recall

• Referendum

• Imperialism

What is the term for a procedure that allows voters to remove an elected official from office?

• Initiative

• Recall

• Referendum

• Yellow journalism