Gilded Age-WWI Pre-test

This 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 I
• Progressive Era
• Gilded age
• Roaring Twenties

What was the purpose of the Civil Service Commission and the associated reform law?

• Fill government jobs based on merit

• End the Gilded Age

• Break up monopolies

• Award government jobs based on political party loyalty

A "muckraker" is

• a journalist who exposed living conditions in the tenements and factories

• congressmen who took bribes during the Gilded Age

• someone who fought for women's rights
• the term used to describe dishonest businessmen of the era

What was the purpose of the Sixteenth Amendment? (everyone hates it -_-)

• Congress power to pass an income tax

• Congress to eliminate business monopolies

• All voters to vote on bills directly

• Direct election of senators

Which Muckraker exposed problems with the meat-packing industry in the book 'The Jungle'?

• Jacob Riis
• Ida B. Wells
• Upton Sinclair
• Ida Tarbell

Which president wanted to control businesses, was known as a 'Trustbuster,' and conserved the environment?

• William McKinley

• Abraham Lincoln

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton are most closely associated with the idea that-

• Settlement houses should be built to help educate immigrants
• National Parks should be created by the federal government
• Factories should be prohibited since they damage society

• Suffrage should be granted to women

The most significant effect of minor political parties in the United States during the early twentieth century was that they-

• influenced only local levels of government
• had little impact on the major parties
• suggested reform ideas that later became laws
• Elected many of their party leaders to the presidency

Civil service reform in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was a reaction to which of the following issues?

• The dwindling influence of political machines

• The emergence of single-issue third parties

• The corrupt and inefficient distribution of government jobs by political machines

• The ignorance of voters who elected well-meaning but incompetent public officials

What is "annexation"?

• When a country takes control of new territory.

• When a country frees territory that it controls.

• When a country frees another group of people from imperialist rule.

• When a country rebels against it's imperial rulers.