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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT GILDED AGE STUDY
EXAM QUESTIONS
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-Guarantee passing score -18 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: was a political boss who controlled new york city politics and used bribes to get votes
Answer:
william boss tweed Question 2: ANDREW CARNEGIE WAS SOMEONE WHO GAVE A LOT OF MONEY TO CHARITY:
OFTEN REFERRED TO AS A
Answer:
philanthropist Question 3: _____ invented the telephone which allowed people to communicate across long distances
Answer:
alexander graham
Question 4: THE ____ TRIED TO KEEP CHINESE FROM
ENTERING THE U.S. BECAUSE AMERICANS FEARED THEY WOULD LOSE JOBS.
Answer:
chinese exclusion act
Question 5: new IMMIGRANTS PRIMARILY CAME FROM ___
EUROPE.
Answer:
southern & eastern
Question 6: THE WORD THAT OFTEN DESCRIBED THE GILDED AGE IS ___
Answer:
corruption Question 7: the ___ offered people free or cheap land out west and led to rapid settlement of the great plains in the 1800s
Answer:
homestead act
Question 8: ONE OF THE REASONS WHY MONOPOLIES CONTROLLED THE MARKET WAS
BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT RARELY INTERFERED WHICH IS CALLED ___
Answer:
laissez-faire
Question 9: POLITICAL BOSSES OFTEN GOT VOTES FROM ____
in exchange FOR PROVIDING THEM WITH EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES.
Answer:
immigrants Question 10: many immigrated to escape political persecution, famine and to have a _____
Answer:
hope of a better life
Question 11: THE IMMIGRANT GROUP THAT CAME TO AMERICA ESCAPING FAMINE AND
POLITICAL PERSECUTION IN THE LATE 1800S WERE THE ___
Answer:
irish
Question 12: DURING THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY, PEOPLE MOVED FROM______ (farms
to cities )
Answer:
rural to urban
Question 13: SOMEONE WHO DISLIKES FOREIGNERS/IMMIGRANTS IS PICALLY REFERRED
TO AS A ___
Answer:
nativist
Question 14: ONE OF THE MAIN REASONS THAT IMMIGRANTS FROM CUBA SETTLE IN
FLORIDA IS BECAUSE OF THIER ____ (CLOSENESS TOFLORIDA).
Answer:
geographic proximity
Question 15: THE PRIMARY OBJECTIVE OF THE ___ WAS TO ASSIMILATE AMERICAN
INDIANS.
Answer:
dawes act
Question 16: created the lightbulb
Answer:
thomas edison Question 17: _____ was a philanthropist was paid his workers low wages and owned carnegie steel
Answer:
andrew carnegie
Question 18: AFTER THOMAS EDISON CREATED THE LIGHTBULB. BUSINESSES COULD___
Answer:
extend working hours
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