The Gilded Age – please answer all questions with a separate
piece of paper
Textbook: http://www.ushistory.org/us/index.asp
Click on 36: The Gilded Age: http://www.ushistory.org/us/36.asp
1.
What was the Gilded Age?
2.
What is corruption? Why was it part of the
Gilded Age?
36.a Go to this page now: http://www.ushistory.org/us/36a.asp
3.
What did the Pullman Car company produce?
4.
Why was the Transcontinental Railroad important?
5.
What is Manifest Destiny?
6.
What kind of immigrants worked on the railroads?
7.
What is the significance of Promontory Summit?
8.
Why was there a need for government to regulate
railroads (Interstate Commerce Commission)?
36.b Go to this page (John D. Rockefeller): http://www.ushistory.org/us/36b.asp
9.
Who was John D. Rockefeller? What company did he
control?
10.
What is a captain of industry? What is a robber baron?
Are they really just the same thing?
11.
Why was oil such an important part of
industrialization?
36.c Andrew Carnegie: http://www.ushistory.org/us/36c.asp
12. Who was Carnegie?
13. Why was
Carnegie’s background important to him? Do you think this had to do with his
giving/charities?
36.d JP Morgan: http://www.ushistory.org/us/36d.asp
14.
What type of things did Morgan invest in? Why was he so powerful?
15.
Was Morgan necessarily a bad guy?
37.e: New Attitudes toward wealth: http://www.ushistory.org/us/36e.asp
16. What is Social Darwinism?
17. What is the Gospel of Wealth?
18. What is meant by the “American Dream” according
to this section?
EXTRA CREDIT: Columbia World’s Fair - http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA96/WCE/title.html
19. Why was the Chicago Fair so
important and popular?
20. Also, research H.H. Holmes
here: http://www.inquisitr.com/2329164/who-was-hh-holmes-meet-the-serial-killer-leonardo-dicaprio-will-bring-back-to-life/
How was HH Holmes able to take advantage of the fair?
