Workers formed _______________ in response to poor working conditions during the Gilded Age
What are Labor Unions
100
This tax on imported goods continually rose during the Gilded Age
What are Tariffs
100
Which Progressive Era president sought to reform the American economy and created programs such as the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Reserve, as well as attacking trusts with the Clayton Act, and lowering tariffs with the Underwood Act
Who is Woodrow Wilson
100
Immigrants settled in urban centers mostly to find _______ in factories
What are jobs
100
This group of rural citizens joined the Populist Party in large numbers during the 1890s
What are farmers
200
This act was passed in the 1890s to make trusts and monopolies illegal. It was difficult to enforce though.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act
200
"America is for Americans" would be an example of what anti-immigrant view common during the Gilded Age
What is Nativism
200
True or False: Progressive Presidents Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson broke away from laissez faire policies of the Gilded Age by carrying out policies such as trustbusting
What is True
200
Rapid industrial development led to the rapid rise of cities known as ___________________
What is Urbanization
200
To put more money into circulation, many Populists supported this idea of having money backed by silver and gold
What is bimetallism
300
This ocean creature was often used to illustrate the power and control of monopolies and robber barons in political cartoons during the Gilded Age
What is the Octopus
300
Plessy v. Ferguson ruled that __________ was a legal policy
What is segregation
300
The Pendleton Act was passed in response to the death of this president over a patronage appointment
Who is James Garfield
300
Of the following, ___________ is responsible for the formation of the other three:
1. Expansion of Political Machines, 2. development of tenements, 3. growth of cities, 4. increase in crime
What is the Growth of Cities
300
Of the following, __________ benefited the most from Progressive Reforms:
1. African Americans, 2. American Indians, 3. Factory Workers, 4. Big Business
What are Factory Workers
400
Industrial leaders during the Giled Age formed these types of now illegal companies that had no competition and controlled the production of product to make millions of dollars
What are monopolies and/or trusts
400
Which African American leader promoted that African Americans learn a trade and gradually earn acceptance from white society.
Who is Booker T. Washington
400
Who was the candidate for the Bull Moose Party in the Election of 1912
Who is Theodore Roosevelt
400
Political Machines gained needed votes by providing services to the large number of ____________ that now populated cities
What are immigrants
400
Initiative and Referendum were part of _________ Reform during the Progressive Era
What is Election Reform
500
Social Darwinism was used to support this "hands off" economic approach
What is laissez faire
500
What group of people were denied immigration to the U.S. via an Exclusion Act
Who are the Chinese
500
The election of this president, who was later assassinated, twice over William Jennings Bryan marked the end of the Populist movement
Who is William McKinley
500
This name was given to immigrants of the late 1800s who were from Southern and Eastern Europe
What are New Immigrants
500
Solving social problems created by the newly developed industrial society of America was the goal of _____________