CLEP US History II

Answer: B - The Second Industrial Revolution began in the 1860s, when the steel age began, and it ended in the 1910s, after the creation of the moving assembly line, when the age of mass production began. The Roaring Twenties refers to the 1920s, which occurred after the Second Industrial Revolution ended. The Gay Nineties refers to the 1890s and the prosperity of the Gilded Age, which occurred from the 1860s to the late 1890s. The Progressive Era began when the Gilded Age ended and lasted until the 1920s. The Jim Crow Era began in the mid-1870s and lasted until the mid-1950s.