The Gilded Age Quiz #1 - Tyson Carthel | Laabri | Nneɛma a ɛma wotumi yɛ ade

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Explain the relationship between the development of factories and the growth of urbanization.

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Which benefit resulted from the introduction of the Bessemer steel process?

Electric lightbulb

Mechanical reapers to replace horse-drawn reapers

Stronger and cheaper material for railroads, skyscrapers, and bridges

Transistors for radios

In 1895 the Department of Street Cleaning in New York City created a permanent group of sanitation workers known as the White Wings. This image shows the White Wings at work in 1896.

Escape from religious persecution
Hope for freedom and equality
Hope for better economic conditions
Escape from political turmoil and war

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A high school teacher wrote these bullet points on the whiteboard. What was the most likely topic of discussion?

Reasons for immigration to the United States

Principles of social Darwinism

Objectives of the Grange movement

Goals of U.S. assimilation policies

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Why were people like those shown in this image hopeful about their future?

The U.S. social security system provided financial and medical benefits.

Nativism and Social Darwinism were expanding in American cities.

There were many jobs and business opportunities in America.

American cities had large and comfortable tenement apartment buildings.

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How did Andrew Carnegie contribute to civic and social life in the United States?

By supporting conservative ideals in federal legislation and foreign policy

By creating a charitable foundation to end hunger

By promoting spiritual and moral values in public schools

By establishing philanthropic organizations dedicated to education and the arts

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The cartoon reads, "They would close to the newcomer the bridge that carried them and their fathers over."

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Read the excerpt and answer the question that follows.

Other industrialists, including John D. Rockefeller, merged the operations of many large companies to form a trust. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Trust came to monopolize 90% of the industry. . . .

—“The Industrial Revolution in the United States,” Library of Congress, www.loc.gov (accessed August 25, 2017)

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What was one DIRECT effect of the business practice discussed in this excerpt?

There was a lack of employment opportunities for immigrants.

Employees were prevented from buying stock.

Consumers were denied access to goods.

There was decreased competition among producers.

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Select the correct "hot spot" on the map that shows Angel Island, the point of entry for Chinese immigrants coming to the United States.

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Select the two portions of the quote below by Andrew Carnegie that best explains why he funded philanthropic projects such as the building of libraries and parks.

A homesteader had only to be the head of a household or at least 21 years of age to claim a 160-acre parcel of land. Settlers from all walks of life including newly arrived immigrants, farmers without land of their own from the East, single women and former slaves came to meet the challenge of “proving up” and keeping this “free land.” Each homesteader had to live on the land, build a home, make improvements and farm for 5 years before they were eligible to “prove up.” A total filing fee of $18 was the only money required. . . .

—National Park Service, www.nps.gov (accessed November 14, 2013)

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The process described in the excerpt led to —

peaceful resolution of territorial disputes with American Indians

the establishment of agricultural communities on the American frontier

federal regulation of agriculture

a decline in immigration to urban areas

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Mmuae Afoforo a Wobɛpaw:

Great Plains

assimilation

Homestead Act

jobs

Dawes Act

Chinese Exclusion Act

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

The manufacturing of glass that blocks ultraviolet sun rays

The government’s focus on educating engineers

The importation of stronger kinds of wood

The invention of a new process for manufacturing steel