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- 1. Multiple ChoiceSpeech by William Jennings BryanThe Gettysburg AddressCross of GoldI Have a DreamHomestead Act
- 2. Multiple ChoiceWho wrote "A Century Of Dishonor"?William Jennings BryanHelen Hunt JacksonWilliam McKinleyGeorge Custer
- 3. Multiple ChoiceThis movement advocated for a return to traditional ways of life and challenge white dominance in society.Ghost Dance MovementTemperance MovementThe Pullman StrikeThe People's Party
- 4. Multiple ChoiceWho led the Pullman Strike?Chief JosephEugene DebsGeorge CusterHelen Hunt Jackson
- 5. Multiple ChoiceThis period during the 1870s to 1900 is known for it's rise of railroads, big business, industrialization and social problems in the United States.World War IProgressive EraGilded ageRoaring Twenties
- 6. Multiple Choicein 1882, the Government passed this legislation that restricted immigration for 10 years from a certain group into the United States.Nativist ActMexican Reparition ActDawes ActChinese Exclusion Act
- 7. Multiple ChoiceDuring the Gilded age, workers came together to work for better pay, working conditions, and less hours. Leaders such as Samuel Gompers help led many of this workers in....PhilanthropyLabor UnionsPolitical BossesCredit Unions
- 8. Multiple ChoiceUnder this policy in 1887, the Government gave Native Americans land in order to farm land, just like European farmers.Dawes ActGhost DanceTrail of TearsLaws Act
- 9. Multiple ChoiceThe innovation of this transportation help open up the national market?boatsrailroadsautombilshorse drawn carriages
- 10. Multiple ChoiceDuring the 19th and early 20th century, These men helped immigrants with jobs and housing in order to control votes during election?political partiesEl Chapopolitical bossesrepublican party
- 11. Multiple Choice"New Immigrants" that came to the United States in the early 1900s were from which part of Europe?South EuropeNE EuropeSW EuropeSE Europe
- 12. Multiple ChoiceMen such as Andrew Carnegie believed in giving money to libraries, musuems and schools to help benefit people who wanted to move up in the social ladder.geopoliticalpolitical bossesSocial DarwinismGospel of Wealth
- 13. Multiple ChoiceThe Pendleton Act of United States in 1883 decided that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit (test) instead of political affiliation.direct votingcivil service reformpolitical machinescivil labor unions
- 14. Multiple ChoiceDue to the corruption of the railroads companies, the U.S. government created this act to regulate railroad companies to be reasonable in prices.Interstate Commerece ActDawes ActTranscontiental ActLaissez Faire Act
- 15. Multiple ChoiceIn what area did the government give land to settlers to farm and expand west in the Homestead Act?TexasEast CoastGreat PlainsRocky Mountains
- 16. Multiple ChoiceBecause of the rapid growth of Industrilization in the North people moved out of rural towns to?Rural farmsUrbanzied citiesSubrebs citiesEl rancho
- 17. Multiple ChoiceBecause of the expansion to the west, what effects did the creation of railroads cause for the Great Plains?movement of Native Americans and animals, and erosion of soildeath of Native Americansmovement of only buffalorailroad robberies
- 18. Multiple ChoiceMany Immigrants faced issues once they arrived such as language barriers, but these group of people mostly restricted new immigrants from emtering the country.DemocratsRepublicansDonald TrumpNativists
- 19. Multiple ChoiceThis is the term for immigrants that is the process for turning and teaching immigrants about the culture and government of the United States.AmericanizationNativismAmericanMexiCAN
- 20. Multiple ChoiceThe Farmer's Alliance and the Grange, both founded during the Gilded Age, stood for additional government regulation of trade and creating the conditions for more political power and economic well being for farmers (as compared to industrialists). What 1890s group was founded, supporting these ideas, and attacking the Gold Standard?ProgressivesFree Soil PartyIWWPopulists
- 21. Multiple ChoiceWhat New York politician ran a political machine in New York City beginning in 1869, during the Gilded Age, that was incredibly corrupt. For example, a projected cost of $250,000 for a courthouse turned in to $13,000,000 because of kickbacks and bribes.DaleyGrantTildenTweed
- 22. Multiple ChoiceWhat was a city government marked by corruption, bribery, and Kickbacks (common during the Gilded Age) called?credit mobilierpolitical machinecorrected democracyelectoral politics
- 23. Multiple ChoiceCongressional action taken in 1890, during the Gilded Age, that made "contracts, conspiracies, and combinations" that restrained free trade illegal. This was done to stop the abusiv practices of organized trusts in oil, sugar, tobacco...Sherman Antitrust ActCeller-Kefauver ActClayton Antitrust ActInterstate Commerce Act
- 24. Multiple ChoiceCongressional action taken in 1887, during the Gilded Age, to stop the unfair and abusive practices of railroad companies. That is, to stop railroad companies from giving low prices to large shippers (Corporations) and high prices to farmers who had no other shupping options.Sherman Antitrust ActCeller-Kefauver ActClayton Antitrust ActInterstate Commerce Act
- 25. Multiple ChoiceIn 1889, during the Gilded Age, a Settlement House called Hull House was opened in Chicago. It was designed to help working class women, many recent immigrants, move out of poverty and dependence on others. It sought to address some of the excesses of industry and business. Who founded Hull House?Margaret SangerJane AddamsElizabeth Cady StantonSusan B. Anthony
- 26. Multiple ChoiceIn 1890, during the Gilded Age, who wrote about and photographed the horrible living conditions of America's working poor in the Book, How the Other Half Lives?Upton SinclairIda TarbellIda WellsJacob Riis
- 27. Multiple ChoiceWilliam Graham Sumner was a popular researcher and writer during the Gilded Age. He believed that government programs to help the poor were useless because, "...a drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be..." That is, Sumner believed that we all had a certain station or place that was ordained and could not be changed. This Gilded Age philosophy was called which of the following?EvolutionMonetary PolicySocial DarwinismWelfare Capitalism
- 28. Multiple ChoiceOne reason nativists worried about influx of immigrants in 1880s...Feared immigrants gain control of city and state governmentsBelieved immigrants receive preferential treatment from federal government and receive landThought country's ports could not handle increasing numbers of immigrants and exportsConsidered immigrants from southern and eastern Europe a threat to traditional American cultural values
- 29. Multiple ChoiceHow Haymarket Square affected Knights of Labor?Massive gathering of workers forced federal government to place limits on union's activitiesWorkers lost confidence in union's leadership after union president given details of rally to policeUnion members grew disillusioned as newspapers blamed workers for violenceUnion's emphasis on recruiting immigrants angered American-born workers
- 30. Multiple ChoiceWho were Exodusters?American Indians demanding return of tribal landsEastern Europeans immigrating to US after WWIAfrican Americans leaving South after Civil WarColonial Americans forming local militias during Revolution
- 31. Multiple ChoiceHow did KoL differ from AFL?KoL advocated strikes as tacticKoL opened membership to women, blacks, and ethnic minoritiesKoL developed stronger relationships with policymakers at federal levelKoL focused on working conditions and workplace safety instead wages and benefits
- 32. Multiple ChoicePopulists supported "free silver" because they believed:It would result in deflationIt would increase bank regulationsIt would result in inflationNone of the following - they supported continuation of the Gold Standard
- 33. Multiple Choice
Based on your knowledge of the Industrial Revolution in the United States, what statement is this cartoon making?The federal government is ruining the oil industry by placing too many restrictions and regulations on business owners.The oil industry is thriving due to a healthy working relationship with the federal government.The owner of Standard Oil has too much power and influence over the federal government.Emissions from oil refineries are polluting the air and harming the environment. - 34. Multiple ChoiceWhich of following was most closely associated with the Populist Party?Jane AddamsWilliam Jennings BryanEugene DebsSamuel Gompers
- 35. Multiple ChoiceWhat was the main goal of most muckraking journalists?Gain fame through articles of high popular interestExpose socioeconomic problems in need of political attentionIncrease public awareness of America's great potentialEnd corrupt relationships between politicians and big business
- 36. Multiple ChoiceJohn Muir and Theodore Roosevelt worked together on which movement?safe food and drug lawsconservationracial equalitychild labor laws
- 37. Multiple ChoiceWhat does Trust-busting mean?end discriminationstop monopolies (restore competition)label ingredients on food and drugselection for political offices
- 38. Multiple ChoiceWhat did the NAACP focus on?child laborequal rightsconservationprotection of animals
- 39. Multiple ChoiceUpton Sinclair's The Jungle had which unintended effect?it showed racial discriminationit showed the harmful things that were in the nation's foodit established trade guidelinesit fixed drug regulations
- 40. Multiple ChoiceAuthor of the "The Jungle", which exposed the horrors of the meatpacking industry.Ida B. WellsUpton SinclairRobert La FolletteFrances Willard
- 41. Multiple ChoiceInvestigative author who exposed unsanitary conditionsmuckrackertenementsubsitenceindustrialization
- 42. Multiple ChoiceSuffrageThe right to work in factoriesThe right to live in AmericaThe right to voteThe right not to vote
- 43. Multiple ChoiceSocial DarwinismThe idea that people and businesses compete for survivalJournalist who uncovered and proved the truth about the evil of big buisness and politics in America.NAACPThe Jungle
- 44. Multiple ChoiceA law that prohibits the sale of mislabeled or contaminated foodPure Food and Drug ActMeat inspectionsFood and Drug AdministrationOccupational Safety and Health Admin
- 45. Multiple ChoiceTo remove through a votereferendumsocialismrecallcapitalism
- 46. Multiple ChoiceNew laws can be proposed by voters by collecting signatures on a petitionrecallreferendumimpressionisminitiative
- 47. Multiple ChoiceThis amendment allows people to vote directly for Senators16th17th18th19th
- 48. Multiple ChoiceThe protection of nature and its resources is known asrecyclingconservationcommunismsocialism
- 49. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following incident originally allowed Roosevelt to become President?He was elected.McKinley was assassinated.McKinley resigned.McKinley was impeached.
- 50. Multiple ChoiceBecause Roosevelt went after large trusts, he was known as amuckraker.trustbuster.suffragist.businessman.
- 51. Multiple ChoiceBecause Taft and Roosevelt split the republican vote in 1912Taft won the election.Wilson won the electionRoosevelt won the electionNo one won
- 52. Multiple ChoiceThe "Bull Moose Party" wasthe name of Wilson's partythe name of Roosevelt's partythe name of Taft's party
- 53. Multiple ChoiceWhich was NOT true of Roosevelt's presidency?Pushed government to break up bad trustsRe-ran as a candidate for the Bull Moose party in 1912Pushed for conservationWas not a very "progressive" president
- 54. Multiple ChoiceWhat was the major difference between the first two major unions, the Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor?The Knights of Labor only allowed skilled workers to joinThe Knights of Labor did not allow immigrants to joinThe AFL only allowed skilled workers to joinThe AFL did not allow immigrants to join
- 55. Multiple ChoiceWhich of these best describes life in a tenement?Very crowdedLots of sickness & diseaseNo windows, heat, or plumbingAll of these describe tenement life
- 56. Multiple ChoiceWhat continent did 90% of immigrants come to the United States from during the late 1800s?EuropeAsiaLatin AmericaAfrica
- 57. Multiple ChoiceWhat was the name given to the group of people who thought immigrants could not assimilate, took away jobs, and promoted violence?PatriotsLoyalistsNativistsRadicals
- 58. Multiple ChoiceWhich U.S. President was assassinated on September 6, 1901? Theodore Roosevelt took over for this man and would turn out to be one of the more influential presidents in U.S. history.William McKinleyAbraham LincolnJames GarfieldJohn F. Kennedy
- 59. Multiple ChoiceWhat was the time period called that suggested that the U.S. appeared to be fine, but beneath the surface there was corruption and serious problems?False AmericaGilded AgeTeasing TimesErroneous Era
- 60. Multiple ChoiceWhat did Progressive reformers believe in?Public interest, or the good of all peopleEnding prohibitionBringing back slaveryChanging from democracy
- 61. Multiple ChoiceA _________________ was a journalist that sought to problems like the ones Upton Sinclair discovered in the meatpacking industry.carpetbaggermuckrakerdirt-diggerjellyfisher
- 62. Multiple ChoiceWho was the most influential African American during this time, encouraging African Americans to GRADUALLY move up in society?Malcolm XBooker T. WashingtonGeorge Washington CarverMartin Luther King Jr.
- 63. Multiple ChoiceW.E.B. Du Bois helped found the NAACP, or the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, in 1909.TrueFalse
- 64. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following was NOT one of the new attractions that major cities offered?Shopping & theatersProfessional sporting eventsZoos & museumsAmusement Parks & carnivals
- 65. Multiple ChoiceIf Teddy Roosevelt had not run for the Bull Moose party in 1912 the election result probably would have been different. Taft would not have split the Republican vote with Roosevelt and he would have defeated Woodrow Wilson.TrueFalse
- 66. Multiple ChoiceThe cultural fusion and integration of different groups of people that occurred in the U.S. around the time was called ____________________.integrationassimilationimmigrationprocrastination
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