GILDED AGE UNIT TEST STUDY GUIDE TEST DATE: Friday, Dec.

7 Format: document analysis (like the Reconstruction test, but you will only be required to analyze TWO documents) thorough, thoughtful one-paragraph response to a thesis question. ESSENTIAL QUESTION: In response to an era of change, how effective were Americans efforts to create a better quality of life? Corresponding textbook sections: Chapter 6, Section 3 Chapter 7 Chapter 8, Sections 2-3 Chapter 9, Sections 1-3, 5 ESSENTIAL QUESTION: Were the changes that occurred during the Gilded Age good or bad for America? QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER: 1. How did big business emerge in the United States and who were the major players? 2. What were unions goals and why did workers join unions? 3. How did rapid changes lead to conflict and problems in industrialization, immigration, labor and urbanization? 4. How did U.S. government policies impact immigrants to the United States? 5. How did racial tensions persist in the United States after Reconstruction? 6. How did industrialization, labor and urbanization shape American identity? 7. How did reformers attempt to solve problems arising from industrialization and urbanization? 8. Were the changes that occurred during the Gilded Age good or bad for America? 9. Is the Gilded Age an appropriate name for this time period? KEY TERMS John D. Rockefeller Andrew Carnegie monopoly trusts vertical and horizontal integration regulation Gospel of Wealth Social Darwinism Sherman Antitrust Act unions strikes Samuel Gompers Ellis Island Angel Island Chinese Exclusion Act Gentlemens Agreement nativism dumbbell tenement Social Gospel ethnic islands/communities literacy test poll tax grandfather clause Jim Crow laws segregation Plessy v. Ferguson muckrakers (definition and specific writers) 18th and 19th amendments Pure Food and Drug Act Meat Inspection Act political machine (and all its corresponding terms)