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FREE U.S. HISTORY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT GILDED
AGE VOCAB EXAM QUESTIONS
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Question 1: Telephone
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Allowed people to communicate across great distances through electrical wires
Question 2: Alexander Graham Bell
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Invented the telephone in 1876
Question 3: "New Immigrants"
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Immigrants who came to the United States after 1880, who spoke no English
Question 4: Chinese Exclusion Act
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1882 first federal law to restrict immigration. Chinese immigrants banned for 10 years
Question 5: Political Machine
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Controlled city government. Provided jobs and other services to immigrants and the poor in exchange for their votes
Question 6: Child Labor
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In the late 1800s and early 1900s children were often worked in textile mills and coal mines under dangerous and unhealthy conditions
Question 7: Robber Baron
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Entrepreneurs of the Gilded Age are sometimes referred to this way because of the ruthless tactics they used to destroy competition and keep their workers' wages low
Question 8: Great Plains
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Part of North America that covers a large area of land in the middle of the continent. Home to millions of buffalo and inhabited by numerous Native American tribes who hunted the buffalo for food and for the hides.
Question 9: Frontier
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The line separating areas of settlement from unsettled wilderness territory
Question 10: Reservations
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Areas of land given to Native American Tribes by the US government. Often undesirable land and smaller than the area the tribes had previously occupied
Question 11: Corporation
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A company chartered by a state and recognized in law as a separate "person" issuing stocks to shareholders
Question 12: Dawes Act
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Law passed to speed up the Am
Question 13: Philanthropy
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Concern for humanity usually expressed through a donation of money or time
Question 14: Tenement
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single-room apartments, often without heat or lighting. Frequently, many families shared a single toilet
Question 15: Political "Bosses"
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Leaders of political machines
Question 16: National Market
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Railroads, telegraph, and telephone linked together different parts of the country, creating the ability to sell product throughout the country
Question 17: Free Enterprise System
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Individuals have the freedom to make their own economic decisions
Question 18: Urbanization
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Movement of people from the countryside to towns and cities
Question 19: Indian Wars
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Wars between the Great Plains Native American tribes and the United States government. The Indian Wars ended with the Massacre at Wounded Knee
Question 20: "Gilded Age"
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The period from 1865 to 1900 when many entrepreneurs reaped huge profits, created immense wealth for themselves and lived lavish lifestyles
Question 21: Nativists
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Those who believed that those "born" in or "native" to the United States were superior to or better than the "new immigrants"
Question 22: Knights of Labor
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The first national labor union joining together all skilled and unskilled workers. It ultimately failed due to a lack of organization and a lack of unity among the skilled and unskilled workers
Question 23: Pull Factors
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reasons immigrants choose to go to a new country, can include economic opportunity, freedom from oppression, family and cultural ties
Question 24: Homestead Act
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- Gave 160 acres of government land to any citizen who "improved" the land for five years by
building a house and growing crops. After five years, the homesteaders would own land
Question 25: Captain of Industry
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Entrepreneurs of the Gilded Age like Carnegie and Rockerfeller are sometimes referred to this way because they forged the modern industrial economy
Question 26: Thomas Edison
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Produce the first effective light bulb in 1879
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