Question

US HISTORY HELP

Answer 1

1. Historians (and specifically Mark Twain) depict the last few decades of the nineteenth century as what age? *
Ice Age
Gilded Age
Age of Discovery
Age of Empires
2. Literature became a major part of American culture during the Gilded Age which included newspapers and novelists. Identify the one person who was not part of the literature culture of the age. *
Stephen Crane
William Randolph Hearst
Joseph Pulitzer
Andrew Carnegie
3. Identify all the Push Factors which encouraged immigrants to leave their native home. *
Religious persecution.
Economic hardship
War
All of the above.
4. Identify all the Pull Factors which encouraged immigrants to come to America. *
Religious and political freedom
Cheap land
Family in the United States
All of the above
6. What was a reason why Americans migrated from rural areas to cities during the late 19th century? *
An abundant supply of better paying factory jobs.
Very little farmland was available in the Midwest region of the country.
Easy access to the sea for transportation.
5. Through which two main immigration centers did immigrants enter the United States during the 19th century? *
Angel Island and Parris Island
Parris Island and Staten Island
Long Island and Staten Island
Ellis Island and Angel Island

Answer 2

the first one is the gilded age