2. Gilded Age

Question 1

Key Gilded Age Characteristics

Answer 1

Rapid - Industry, mass production, population growth, & corruption

Question 2

A situation in which one company controls an entire industry

Answer 2

Monopoly

Question 3

Small companies join together to form one large company.

Answer 3

Trust

Question 4

The idea is that the government should not interfere with business practices.

Answer 4

Laissez-Faire

Question 5

The rise of a manufacturing economy and the decline of an agricultural economy.

Answer 5

Industrialization

Question 6

The first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel from molten iron

Answer 6

Bessemer Process

Question 7

European Region most immigrants came from during the Gilded Age

Answer 7

Southern & Eastern Europe

Question 8

Crowded apartment building with poor sanitation, safety, and comfort

Answer 8

Tenement Houses

Question 9

Prohibited Chinese laborers from U.S.

Answer 9

Chinese Exclusion Act 1882 & 1892

Question 10

Forced assimilation to be Americanized

Answer 10

Nativism/Americiasim

Question 11

Created settlement houses for young immigrant women to provide job training, living, & childcare

Answer 11

Jane Adams (Hull House)

Question 12

Political organization with corrupt government officials

Answer 12

Tammany Hall

Question 13

Leader of the Political Machine in NYC

Answer 13

Williams “Boss” Tweed

Question 14

Industrialist business tycoon and philanthropist who controlled most of the steel industry.

Answer 14

Andrew Carnegie

Question 15

Industrialist business tycoon and philanthropist who owned Standard Oil and controlled 90% of the oil industry

Answer 15

John D. Rockefeller

Question 16

Grew out of a need to protect the workers and what was best for them. Labor Unions were established to protect worker interests.

Answer 16

Labor Movement (Unions)

Question 17

Outlawed business monopolies, but was not very effective at limiting the power of big business.

Answer 17

Sherman Antitrust Act

Question 18

Identify the key reasons for the Labor Movement

Answer 18

Terrible working conditions, long working hours, low wages, & child labor