FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT GILDED AGE STUDY

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT GILDED AGE STUDY

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-Guarantee passing score -18 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert- 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 immig 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