Gilded Age- America Grows in Wealth & Workers Unite

Question 1

Gilded Age

Answer 1

Businesses became wealthy, and some

corrupt government officials supported business first policies

Question 2

Electricity

Answer 2

– Made manufacturing more efficient; light bulb

led to more hours of work = more production

Question 3

Railroads

Answer 3

Provided farmers access to distant markets,

allowed Americans to settle the West

Question 4

Monopolies

Answer 4

Total control of a product by one company,

laws passed against monopolies to protect consumer prices

Question 5

Andrew Carnegie

Answer 5

Philanthropy to improve society

through donations to education and the arts

Question 6

Labor Unions

Answer 6

Fought for better pay and working conditions

Question 7

Urbanization

Answer 7

Growth in industry resulted in people moving

to cities to work in factories causing sanitation problems

Question 8

Political Corruption

Answer 8

Government officials took bribes, bosses

and political machines promised infrastructure for votes

Question 9

Immigrants

Answer 9

Came to America for better economic conditions,

farm fertile soil, jobs in factories; citizens wanted assimilation

Question 10

Irish Immigrants

Answer 10

Persecuted because they were Catholic

Question 11

Nativists

Answer 11

Wanted restrictions on immigration, assimilation

Question 12

Chinese Exclusion Act

Answer 12

– Passed because people in the

West did not want to compete with immigrants for jobs

Question 13

Homestead Act

Answer 13

Resulted in the settling of the frontier by farmers

Question 14

Dawes Act

Answer 14

Law intended to assimilate Native Americans

into American culture