Module 2- The Gilded Age
Study Guide
Main Topics:
1. Who migrated out to the West?
2. Why did they migrate to the West?
3. In what ways did the government support this movement to the West?
4. What major transportation system was built that helped to increase
migration west?
5. In what ways were agricultural technology improved in the late 19th
Century?
6. As more people moved west, which group of people were victimized?
**include Chief Joseph in your response.
7. In what ways were this group of people victimized? Explain each
below:
Dawes Severalty Act Boarding Schools
Description/Purpose/Cause- Description/Purpose/Cause- -
Result - Result -
Wounded Knee Sand Creek Massacre
Description/Purpose/Cause- - Description/Purpose/Cause- -
Result - Result -
8. Identify the speaker and meaning of the quote “kill the Indian, save the
man.”
9. Why did Chicago become one of the most prominent cities of the
Gilded Age?
consider: politics, population, economic, geography
10. Which political group did many farmers start to support?
11. What factors enabled the U.S. to lead the world in industrial
production?
12. Identify the significance of Carnegie’s mergers in the steel
industry.
13. What inventions caused major changes in industry and society?
o Who was created with o What impact did these
these inventions? inventions have?
14. What natural resource was used to power factories? (What were
three of the most important resources in the late 19th Century?)
15. Relate Frederick Jackson Turner’s Thesis to the Wild West Shows.
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16. Connect the railroads, western expansion, and the Second
Industrial Revolution in terms of Gilded Age economic development.
(consider means of production)
17. What was a new way that consumers could buy goods?
18. What is the difference between horizontal and vertical
integration?
horizontal integration vertical integration
19. Identify which industry these men were associated with:
o Andrew Carnegie o J.P. Morgan
o John D. Rockefeller o Cornelius Vanderbilt
20. Why were these industrialists considered:
o Captains of Industry o Robber Barons
21. What are monopolies and trusts? What effect did they have on
distribution of wealth?
22. What attitudes toward business and wealth came about during
this period? Include each of the following policies or philosophies in
your response:
o Social Darwinism o Gospel of Wealth
o Social Gospel o Laissez Faire
23. What group was considered “old immigration”?
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24. What group was considered “new immigration”?
25. What factors prompted many people to emigrate to the US in the
last half of the 19th Century? (include push & pull factors)
26. Which group of immigrants were discriminated against the most?
o What did the government try to do to prevent their further
immigration?
27. What facilities were set up to handle immigration and where?
28. After moving to the US, where did immigrants move to and why?
29. What movement attempted to assimilate immigrants and Native
Americans?
30. What is the nickname for the US due to its immigrant history?
31. Why was the last quarter of the 19th Century referred to as the
Gilded Age?
Consider: political, economic, and social factors
32. What is the movement that was anti-immigration?
33. What were political machines?
34. Who ran the political machines?
35. Who was the most famous of these people who ran the political
machines?
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Module is eligible for the test.
o What political machine did he run?
36. To what purpose were these political machines created? Which
groups of people did they target?
37. What cities grew due to industrialization?
38. What new forms of mass transit were built in cities?
39. What type of building became very common in cities?
40. Why was this type of building able to be built?
41. Describe how each of these were problems of urbanization:
o Housing o Sanitation
o Water o Crime
o Fire
42. Events prior to the Civil War helped to set the stage for the
closing of the frontier:
43. Factors that encouraged western settlement and the admission
of new states after the war
44. Three government policies used when addressing the issue of
Native Americans and whites on the same land? Reasons for changes
in policies.
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Module is eligible for the test.
45. Identify the “melting pot” and forces promoting it and forces
preventing its emergence.
46. Identify the causes and results of each of the following:
Homestead Strike Railroad Strike of 1877
Cause - Cause -
Result - Result -
Haymarket Riot Pullman Strike
Cause - Cause -
Result - Result -
47. Identify the objectives, achievements, struggles, strategies, and
membership for each labor union below:
Knights of Labor American Federation
of Labor
48. In terms of the “New South,” what was the Lost Cause?
49.
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50.
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Module is eligible for the test.