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- 1. Multiple Choice
The Zimmerman Telegram was?
A secret communication from Germany in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico
The first communication over telegraph lines from New York to Chicago.
A newspaper article arguing for the US to enter into WWI.
The telegraph that told Washington the USS Maine had been sunk.
- 2. Multiple Choice
A style of news that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration?
Shady Journalism
Liberal Media
Yellow Journalism
Fake News
- 3. Multiple Choice
The name Wounded Knee refers to?
What happens when Dave goes running.
A massacre of 150-300 Lakota that occurred on December 29, 1890 near Wounded Knee Creek.
The forced relocation of the Apache from Maine to Florida.
- 4. Multiple Choice
The WCTU, or the The Woman's Christian Temperance Union was interested in, what?
Voting rights for women.
Stopping immigration to the United States.
The prohibition of alcohol in the United States.
Stopping Facebook from sharing our personal information with advertisers.
- 5. Multiple Choice
The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire was?
A fire in the Chicago city park where immigrants lived.
A rave in the Arizona desert.
The site of a major labor strike.
Was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of New York City on March 25, 1911, and one of the deadliest in US history
- 6. Multiple Choice
Who is Tom Torlino?
Some dude.
A member of the Navajo Nation and student at the Carlisle Indian School.
A reformer who used photographs to prove immigrants lived in terrible conditions.
The governor of South Carolina during Reconstruction and author of the black codes.
- 7. Multiple Choice
Many Americans were desperately poor around the turn of the 20th century. The _____?_____ movement emerged among Protestant Christians to improve the economic, moral and social conditions of the urban working class
The WCTU
The Social Gospel movement
The Great Depression
The New Deal
- 8. Multiple Choice
The same of the system that forced economically disadvantaged people to work land owned by the rich planter class for cash crops.
Reconstruction
Sharecropping
Slavery
- 9. Multiple ChoiceThe Selective Service Act was passed to:encourage conservation of select resourcesestablish a formal quota system on immigrantsincrease troop numbers through a lottery system draftencourage home front support
- 10. Multiple ChoiceThe Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine did which of the following?Prohibited United States intervention in the Caribbean.Warned against European seizure of the Panama Canal.Declared the United States to be the “policeman” of the Western Hemisphere.Provided United States military support for democratic revolutions in Latin America.
- 11. Multiple ChoiceWho was the person who founded the settlement house (Hull House) for the Assimilation and Americanization of the immigrant poor?Elixabeth Cady StantonJane AddamsSusan B. AnthonyBelle Starr
- 12. Multiple Choice
Whose book caused the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act to be passed?Upton SinclairLincoln SteffensIda TarbellJacob Riis - 13. Multiple ChoiceThis was created to allow women to vote nationally17th Amendment18th Amendment19th Amendment21st Amendment
- 14. Multiple ChoiceWhat was a consequence of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire?Business leaders volunteered to compensate (pay) injured workers.Working conditions around the country worsened.Laws improving factory safety were passed.Existing safety laws were enforced more strictly.
- 15. Multiple ChoiceThe Pure Food and Drug Act protected consumers byprohibiting food and drug companies from monopolizing certain markets.banning the sale and transport of mislabeled or contaminated food and drugs.requiring expiration dates be printed on all food and drug packaging.instituting price regulations limiting corporate profits on food and drugs.
- 16. Multiple ChoiceThe Progressive Era is also known as the ___________________ Age because American society appeared to be wealthy on the outside, but when you looked closely there was poverty, crime, and corruption.RadicalRakingGildedSparkle
- 17. Multiple Choice
Which Progressive reformer founded the NAACP, and advocated for immediate equality for African Americans?
Booker T. Washington
Ida B. Wells
Upton Sinclair
W.E.B. DuBois
- 18. Multiple ChoiceWhat was the result of Plessy v. Ferguson?The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Plessy saying segregation was illegal.The Supreme Court never made a ruling.The Supreme Court ruled that segregation was legal.Plessy never took the case to the Supreme Court.
- 19. Multiple ChoiceWhich American ship blew up resulting in the beginning of the Spanish American War?USS ArizonaUSS TitanicUSS LusitaniaUSS Maine
- 20. Multiple ChoiceWho wrote "The Influence of Sea Power Upon History?Alfred Thayer MahanTheodore RooseveltGeorge DeweyJosiah Strong
- 21. Multiple ChoiceWho lead the Filipino resistance against the United States?William Howard TaftQueen LiliuokalaniEmilio AguinaldoTheodore Roosevelt
- 22. Multiple ChoiceWhat did Alfred Thayer Mahan suggest was most important for global power.An ArmyA NavyThe Air Forcenone of the above
- 23. Multiple ChoiceScottish immigrant who became a giant in the steel industryAndrew CarnegieGeorge PullmanThomas EdisonTeddy Roosevelt
- 24. Multiple ChoiceTheory that says government should not interfere with businessLaissez FaireHands Off PolicyDemocratic systemRepublicanism
- 25. Multiple ChoiceWhich organizations helped Freedman during reconstruction?Union League & SuffragistFreedman's Bureau & Society of Benevolent Society of AbolitionistUnion League & Freedman's BureauFreedman's Bureau & Abolistionists
- 26. Multiple ChoiceWhat name was given to a terrorist group that used violence to keep African-Americans from having equal rights in the South?Freedman's BureauBlack CodesJim Crow LawsKu Klux Klan
- 27. Multiple ChoiceWhat services did the Freedman's Bureau provide for African-Americans?Built schools and churchesFound jobs for themHelped protect their rightsAll of the above
- 28. Multiple ChoiceWhy did Congress want to impeach Andrew Johnson?They wanted the president to control ReconstructionThey thought Johnson was being too easy on the SouthThey wanted less rights for African-AmericansThey did not want to pass the 13th Amendment
- 29. Multiple ChoiceWhat "laws" were created by southern states to limit the rights of African-Americans? For example, one state would not allow African-Americans to own land or guns.Jim Crow LawsFair Right LawsCivil War RulesBlack Codes
- 30. Multiple ChoiceWho made freedmen return the land given to them to Southern plantation owners?Abraham LincolnUlysses S. GrantAndrew JohnsonThaddeus Stevens
- 31. Multiple ChoiceWhich group started the terrorist group, the KKK?CongressmenEx-Confederate SoldiersRadical RepublicansCivil Rights Leaders
- 32. Multiple ChoiceUnder which president were the Black Codes allowed to occur?LincolnJohnsonGrantHayes
- 33. Multiple ChoiceWomen did not gain the right to vote until which amendment?16th17th18th19th
- 34. Multiple ChoiceThe __________________ was the longest period of unemployment and low economic activity in the 1900's.New DealGreat DepressionDust BowlCivil War
- 35. Multiple ChoiceWhich best describes this imagedust bowlsocialismBlack Tuesdaybank closures
- 36. Multiple ChoiceWhen was the Great Depression?1919-19291929-19391939-19491999-2009
- 37. Multiple ChoiceStrike took place on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, later spread to San FranciscoThe Great Strike of 1877The Haymarket AffairThe Homestead StrikeThe Pullman Strike
- 38. Multiple ChoiceWhy did the early members of the Knights of Labor, founded in 1869, hold secret meetings?They were afraid of being arrested for criminal activity.They did not want other laborers joining their elite group.They would be fired by anti-union businesses if exposed as membersThey did not want their confidential demonstration plans revealed.
- 39. Multiple Choice
Which detail best supports the idea that Ida B. Wells helped people with her writing?
Shortly thereafter, a Baptist minister named R.N. Countee invited Wells to write for his weekly religious newspaper, The Living Way.
She addressed directly the concerns of the people of Memphis, and particularly of other African Americans.
One of Wells' early pieces concerned her lawsuit against the Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern Railroad.
It was printed in the New York Age, Detroit Plaindealer, Chicago Conservator and many other papers.
- 40. Multiple ChoiceWho encouraged African-American pride and economic success and later led the Back-to-Africa Movement?Warren HardingHenry FordCharles LindberghMarcus Garvey
- 41. Multiple ChoiceWho was the prosecutor in the Scopes Monkey Trial, who argued in favor of traditional and religious values?Charles LindberghGlenn CurtissWilliam Jennings BryanClarence Darrow
- 42. Multiple ChoicePassed in 1924, this legislation put permanent restrictions on immigrants especially from Southern and Eastern Europe.The National Origins ActThe Immigration and Naturalization ActThe Naturalization ActThe Expatriate Act
- 43. Multiple ChoiceAllowed national to draft men to serve in war.Selective Service ActHenry Cabot LodgeIsolationismFourteen Points
- 44. Multiple ChoiceHead of CPIBernard BaruchWoodrow WilsonHerbert HooverGeorge Creel
- 45. Multiple Choice
This banned certain printed materials?
Selective Service Act
No Talk Act
Neutrality Act
Espionage Act
- 46. Multiple ChoiceThe Great Migration refers to the shift of the AfricanAmerican population from therural South to the rural Northrural North to the rural Southurban South to the urban Northrural South to the urban North
- 47. Multiple Choice
What was the effect of the Sedition Act?
it limited freedom of speech
It created distrust of German Americans.
It increased the Size of the Army.
It gave women the right to vote.
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