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Question 1

Two symbols of middle-class status in the Gilded Age were the:
 
  A) sewing machine and typewriter.
  B) wine cellar and parlor bar.
  C) telephone and radio.
  D) bicycle and piano.

Question 2

The new middle class of the Gilded Age was composed:
 
  A) mainly of new immigrants.
  B) largely of doctors, lawyers, and teachers.
  C) almost exclusively of white, Anglo-Saxon Protestants.
  D) almost exclusively of Irish Catholics and German Lutherans.

Question 3

In the typical company town of the southern Piedmont, workers were:
 
  A) given shares in the company.
  B) taken care of from the cradle to the grave.
  C) constantly supervised and controlled by the company.
  D) more often than not, convict labor.

Question 4

The good roads about which Southern politicians bragged were mainly built by:
 
  A) cheap immigrant labor.
  B) African American convict labor.
  C) efficient new machinery.
  D) highly skilled Northerners.

Question 5

African American workers in the New South:
 
  A) were limited to the lowest paying unskilled jobs.
  B) made the same wages as their white counterparts.
  C) were guaranteed equal opportunity by law.
  D) benefited as new opportunities opened for unskilled labor.



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Answer 1

Answer: D

Answer 2

Answer: C

Answer 3

Answer: C

Answer 4

Answer: B

Answer 5

Answer: A



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