1. Multiple Choice Questions
The Gilded Age
Multiple Choice Questions

2. 1) Social reformers in late nineteenth-century America considered the laissez faire philosophy advocated by the Social Darwinists to be both wasteful and inhumane. Laissez faire means:
A) government regulation of economic activities.
B) communism.
C) opposition to monopoly.
D) redistribution of wealth through a welfare program.
E) an economic life free of government intervention.

3. 2) The period of the late nineteenth century in the United States is often referred to as the "Gilded Age." Gilded implies:
A) filled with prosperity.
B) a deceptive outward appearance.
C) pretty.
D) solid and pure.
E) unproductive.

4. 3) A leader in promoting the settlement house movement was:
A) Samuel Jones.
B) Herbert Spencer.
C) Grover Cleveland.
D) Jane Addams.
E) "Boss" Tweed.

5. 4) The "new immigrants" whose migration to the United States increased after 1880 came mainly from:
A) China.
B) Mexico and Canada.
C) southern and eastern Europe.
D) Southeast Asia.
E) northern and western Europe.

6. 5) The primary goals of the typical worker in the United States in the last quarter of the nineteenth century were:
A) highly competitive workplaces.
B) equal pay for men, women, and children.
C) respectable wages and humane conditions.
D) to support socialist revolutions.
E) unlimited riches and benefits.

7. 6) As a result of economic developments in the United States during the late nineteenth century:
A) most American workers enjoyed general prosperity.
B) occupational and class mobility greatly increased.
C) the United States became one of the major industrial countries of the world.
D) workers abandoned republicanism in favor of socialism.
E) there was less discrimination against immigrants by native-born Americans.

8. 7) To the leaders of the American Federation of Labor , the main concern of a national union should be to:
A) cooperate with employers to win concessions.
B) organize all workers in all trades.
C) gain equal wages for skilled and unskilled labor.
D) focus on immediate practical benefits for the workers.
E) use the political system to win concessions for labor.

9. 8) An important factor in the white man's defeat of the Plains tribes was the:
A) use of the Texas Rangers to exterminate them.
B) inability of the Indians to use guns.
C) general agreement among the Indians not to resist white settlements in the area.
D) destruction of the buffalo herds.
E) Indians' refusal to use the horse.

10. 9) In the last three decades of the nineteenth century, Indians on the Great Plains:
A) often fiercely resisted white settlement in the area.
B) accepted their removal to reservations without resistance.
C) generally believed that the United States government had dealt fairly with them.
D) eagerly abandoned their nomadic ways for the sedentary ways of the whites.
E) made alliances with Mexican-American settlers who promised to protect them.

11. 15) Chief leader of the moderate approach to achieving black rights within American society was:
A) Ida B. Wells.
B) Booker T. Washington.
C) J. C. Price.
D) W. E. B. Du Bois.
E) T. Thomas Fortune.

12. E B D C Answer Key Jane Addams’ Hull House
Laissez Faire is when the government isn’t involve and big companies like Standard oil is able to do what they want.
The Gilded Age refers to a time when America was going great and expansion was happening.
Jane Addams’ Hull House
The Chinese were excluded because of the Chinese Exclusion Act and most were Irish, German , and etc.
The working conditions were horrible because they weren’t paid right and working in a bad conditions

13. Answer Key
6.C
7.D
8.A
9.A
10.B
It became one of the major industrial countries because of the economic growth like Carnegie Steel and Standard Oil.
They wanted to improve the working conditions because they weren’t getting paid enough and their working environment was horrible.
They wanted to get rid of Indians and one way was by buffalo soldier exterminating buffalo to almost extinction.
They didn’t approve of white settlement which had caused battles like Battle of Little Big Horn.
Booker T. Washington was known for African Americans avoiding confrontation over segregation.