SSUSH 11-16 Quiz

 One of the main reasons John D. Rockefeller was able to succeed in the oil industry was because he

• encouraged competition
• treated his competitors fairly
• combined vertical and horizontal integration
• urged government regulation of the oil industry

Which of these helped to further Westward Expansion in the United States after 1865?

• California Gold Rush
• Abolition of Slavery
• Transcontinental Railroad
• Lewis and Clark Expedition

What group of immigrants arrived in large numbers on the U.S. west coast for the primary purpose of working on the Transcontinental Railroad in the 19th century?

• Chinese
• Irish
• Japanese
• Mexican

This photograph by Jacob Riis (1889) reflects the conditions that would have been found in

• the West
• the rural South
• industrial areas
• Indian Reservations

The purpose of Jim Crow laws was to

• prevent black citizens from obtaining employment
• limit the religious activities of southern citizens
• create as much division between races as possible
• make it illegal for black children to receive an education

A "muckraker" MOST likely would have been

• one who supported a ban on alcohol
• an agitator in the Civil Rights movement
• a supporter of President Nixon during Watergate
• against abuses of industrial workers in the early 1900s

 Jane Addams's "Hull House" of the late-19th century was

• supported and funded by Congress
• ruled to be unconstitutional in 1901
• created to help adjust immigrants into the United States
• helped to retain Native Americans forced off of their land

Widespread anti-Chinese sentiment in the late-1800s resulted in

• native-born Chinese-Americans having their citizenship revoked
• Congressional action aimed at prohibiting further Chinese immigration
• legal segregation of all Chinese-Americans into separate urban districts
• deportation of all Chinese-Americans living in California, Oregon, and Washington

The U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson, (1896) determined that segregation was acceptable under the condition that

• all children receive permission to attend the same school
• whites receive higher quality facilities and services than blacks
• the segregation laws did not spread outside of the Southern states
• the separate facilities or services for both races be of equal quality

· Guam
· Philippines
· Puerto Rico
All of these territories came under control of the United States following what conflict?

• Mexican War
• World War I
• War of 1812
• Spanish American War