The business trusts and monopolies that emerged during the Gilded Age were meant toQuestion 12Answera.protect the interests of the big businessesb.protect consumer rightsc.keep morale high for the unionsd.keep prices low for the workers

The Gilded Age was a period ofQuestion 9Answera.Territorial compromisesb.Industrialisationc.All of the above

The three Gilded Age anti-monopoly movements shared all of the following EXCEPTGroup of answer choicesLower taxes for all Americans, even the wealthyA vision of the USA divided between the “people” and a small corporate “elite”The desire to restore a “producers’ republic” in which most of the nation’s wealth went to those who actively produced itFear of an impending national crisis

The Gilded Age anti-monopoly movements’ legacies and outcomes include all of the following EXCEPTGroup of answer choicesThe decline of farming as a way of lifeModern liberalism and government regulation of business and the economyThe use of populist language in politics that pits “the people” against a powerful and corrupt “elite”Support for laissez-faire economic policies

List the five features of the American society during the Gilded Age.

Gilded Age farmers caught in a “debt squeeze” would have favored WHICH ONE of the following?Group of answer choicesDeflationary policies that lowered the prices for farm machinery and landA cash-free economy based on the barter systemInflationary policies to expand the nation's money supply and raise crop pricesThe gold standard, because that’s what the “Money Power” favored