US Hist. AIR Test Review

Eyewitness accounts such as pictures, text messages are called what?

• primary source documents

• secondary source documents

Which of the following would be considered the most credible (believable source)?

• an internet site with an author that is unknown

• a social media post from someone about something they heard

• an article written by a historian who researched the topic

A group of workers that join together to try to improve work conditions is called what?

• collective

• union

• trust

The use of factories and machines to make products is called what?

• industrialization

• immigration

• urbanization

Urbanization is the growth of what?

• unions

• millionaires

• cities

Most immigrants coming from eastern and southern Europe from 1892-1924 were processed (take a legal and medical exam) at what place in New York harbor?

• Angel Island

• Alcatraz

• Ellis Island

From what war victory did the U.S. gain the Philippines, Guam and Puerto Rico in 1898?

• World War II

• The Spanish American War

• The Cold War

The time period 1901-1920 when Americans tried to make the country better and improve life was called what?

• The Gilded Age

• The Progressive Era

• The Age of Imperialism

What was the name of Progressive Era journalists that wrote about the secret, hidden problems in America?

• Muckrakers

• Suffragists

• Nativists

The book 'The Jungle' during the Progressive Era showed the "unsanitary conditions" in what industry?

• the oil industry

• the steel industry

• the meat packing industry