The Gilded Age

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 corporations.

Which development made it possible to construct this type of building?

• The government's focus on educating engineers

• The manufacturing of glass that blocks ultraviolet sun rays

• The importation of stronger kinds of wood

• The invention of a new way of manufacturing steel called the Bessemer Process.

How did the invention shown in this patent illustration affect industry?

• Machines needed to be repaired less frequently.

• Products could be manufactured on an assembly line.

• Businesses needed to hire skilled workers.

• Factories could extend working hours.

Which factor facilitated statehood for the darker-shaded areas?

• The introduction of barbed wire throughout the Great Plains

• The acceptance of Mormons by other religious sects in the East

• The expansion of rail lines throughout the West

• The peaceful integration of settlers with American Indian populations.

Which factor contributed to the population shift described in this excerpt?

• The granting of citizenship to American Indians

• The relaxation of immigration quotas

• The introduction of sharecropping

• The building of transcontinental railroads

What was one DIRECT effect of 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

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

• A slave owning society to one without slavery

• a foreign policy of isolationism to one of interventionism

• a direct democracy to a representative one

• a mostly rural society to a mostly urban one

Which issue was discussed in the writing of Jacob Riis?

• Discrimination against African Americans in U.S. cities

• Harsh conditions of tenement housing in U.S. cities

• Growing conflict between rural regions and U.S. cities

• Increasing efforts to reduce Chinese immigration to U.S. cities

What does this image say about why workers followed political bosses orders?

• political bosses threw large parties so the immigrants felt welcome in the US

• political bosses did not have a significant amount of power

• political bosses helped immigrants find jobs and handed out other favors

• political bosses would not break rules, laws, or regulations