The expansion of railroads to the West Coast led to the
destruction of American Indian habitats.
first American Industrial Revolution in the Northeast.
realization that private funding alone should build America's railroads.
admission of California as a free state.
How did railroad companies encourage immigration?
They offered free homesteads to those who would settle along rail lines.
They paid high wages to workers who would emigrate from their home countries.
They ran advertising campaigns in Europe for cheap railroad lands in the U.S.
They lobbied the federal government to overturn the Chinese Exclusion Act.
The completion of the transcontinental railroad led to
increased sectional tension.
assimilation of Mexican Americans into society as equals.
hostility between the government and big business.
economic growth and the expansion of Asian markets.
Plessy v. Ferguson resulted in which of the following?
Integration of public schools
Violent riots that swept through major northern cities in the 1890s
Ratification of the 15th Amendment by southern states that had been holding out
Second-class citizenship for African Americans.
Prior to 1900, most African Americans in the post-Reconstruction South
migrated north and took jobs in industrial cities.
became sharecroppers or tenant farmers.
migrated west to take advantage of free homesteads.
left the United States and emigrated to Africa.
While mainstream African American leaders of the late Gilded Age differed in how they sought to end segregated society, many followed a moderate course that called for
violent protests.
nonviolent civil disobedience.
a "back-to-Africa" movement.
gradual accommodation.
Andrew Carnegie reflects which of the following business models of the Gilded Age in the above quote?
Conspicuous consumption
Social Darwinism
Laissez-faire economics
Vertical integration
The rise of big business was fostered by all of the following during the Gilded Age EXCEPT
improved transportation systems that opened new resources and market.
the strict laissez-faire policy of the federal government.
plentiful natural resources.
a growing immigrant labor force.
The general business climate of the Gilded Age
welcomed competition as a motivator to improve the quality of products.
rejected overseas markets as unfeasible due to high transportation costs.
endorsed the corporate model of the trust.
rejected the notion of conspicuous consumption.
Immigrants tended to settle
in coastal cities in the South.
in rural areas of the North.
on the West Coast.
in industrial cities.
The rapid increase in population in Gilded Age industrial cities led to
neighborhoods composed of mixed classes where the rich mingled with the poor.
the rich tending to move to the center city.
immigrants moving to the city periphery because of easy access to streetcars.
ethnic ghettos that tended to be settled by people of the same nationality.
The rapid increase in the pace and character of immigration after 1890 led to
increased nativist sentiment.
the resurrection of the Know-Nothings as a major third party in presidential elections.
massive deportations of Catholics and Jews.
the voluntary return of a majority of immigrants to their country of origin.
