Question

1. Why did immigrants face rampant discrimination during the late 1800s?

2. What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?

3. What were the names of the immigration processing centers located on the
Western and Eastern coasts of the United States?

4. What was the Taiping rebellion?

5. Who was Frank J. Sprague?

6. Who was Louis Sullivan?

7. What was a political machine?

8. What was the name of the headquarters of the political machine in
New York City?

9. Who helped to bring down the Tweed ring?

10. How did Boston and New York respond to urban congestion?

11. What is individualism?

12. What is Reform Darwinism?

13. What was the point behind Mark Twain and Charles Dudley
Warner’s book called the “Gilded Age?

14. What was the first major league team?

15. What law created the Civil Service System?

16. What happened to the Republican Party as a result of the president
Hayes attacking the practice of patronage?

17. What was the Gospel of Wealth?


18. Who donated to Harrison’s campaign in 1888?

Answer 1

17. "Wealth", more commonly known as "The Gospel of Wealth", is an article written by Andrew Carnegie in June of 1889 that describes the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class of self-made rich. ... Benjamin Soskis, a historian of philanthropy, refers to the article as the 'urtext' of modern philanthropy.