Chapter 12 Test Review Struggle of Reform 5th Grade US History

Read the excerpt. Then answer the question.

“[Man] has compelled [woman] to submit to laws, in the formation of which she had no voice.”

 

Draw an inference from this primary source, and identify who is most likely the author of the quote.

  

• The quote is about women’s rights, and the author is Jane Addams

• The quote is about women writing their own laws, and the author is Ida Wells-Barnett

• The quote is about education for all, and the author is Mary McLeod Bethune

• The quote is about women’s rights, and the author is Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Look at the graphic organizer. Then answer the question.

Which group of answers best completes the chart?

 

• Edited The Crisis magazine, founded Tuskegee Institute, founded a school for African American girls

• Founded a school for African American girls, edited The Crisis magazine, founded Tuskegee Institute

• Founded Tuskegee Institute, founded a school for African American girls, edited The Crisis magazine

• Edited The Crisis magazine, founded a school for African American girls, founded Tuskegee Institute

Which of the following best describes Samuel Gompers’ ideas for organized unions?

• Gompers thought that all unions should only welcome American citizens. He wanted them to gain better wages and working conditions. He felt there should be one union to take care of all workers’ rights.

•   Gompers was against unions. He felt that individuals should fight for better working conditions and wages. He did, however, organize meetings between bosses and individual workers to settle disputes.

• Gompers felt that all workers should have better conditions and wages. He organized his union according to groups. All of the carpenters belonged to one craft union, and the hat makers belonged to another. These separate groups were part of one big union.

• Gompers created separate unions for immigrants and citizens. He felt that their issues were different. His idea led to the belief that all unions should be “pure and simple.”

Look at the picture. Then answer the question.

Why were the three women on the stamp honored?    

• They were instrumental in improving working conditions after the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire.

• They started several unions to support workers.

• They were all Civil War nurses who worked to improve the treatment of the soldiers.

• They were all suffragists who fought for women’s rights.

Read the excerpt. Then answer the question.

 

“The right of citizens to vote shall not be denied or abridged [limited] by the United States or by any state on account of [the] sex [of a person.]”

  

Which amendment to the United States Constitution does this law refer to?

• Seventeenth Amendment

• Nineteenth Amendment

• Twenty-first Amendment

• Twenty-third Amendment

How was Booker T. Washington an important figure in helping African Americans gain equality?    

• He created a successful and thriving business in the North after migrating to Chicago.

• He founded a school for African Americans in Daytona, Florida called Bethune-Cookman College.

• He was instrumental in the organization of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

• He founded the Tuskegee Institute, a school that taught practical job training to African Americans.

Which of the following was an African American publication that encouraged the Great Migration? 

• The Crisis

• Shame of the Cities

• The Chicago Defender

• The Jungle

What problem did Lincoln Steffens’s book Shame of the Cities address? What action was taken by some Americans after the release of the book?   

• He wrote about problems in the food industry, and his book called for food safety inspections.

• He wrote about the lack of education in New York City, and his book incited people to create more schools.

• He wrote about the plight of the African Americans in southern cities, and his book taught people that they were welcome to migrate north.

• He wrote about dishonest public officials, and his book incited the people to insist on change.

Look at the picture. Then answer the question.

 

Who are the two men in the photograph, and what are they doing?

 

• President Roosevelt and his brother are visiting Yellowstone National Park.

• President Roosevelt and Samuel Gompers are deciding which parts of the country should be protected wildlife.

• John Muir and President Wilson are giving a speech to Congress asking for public lands to be preserved.

• President Roosevelt and John Muir are on a camping trip in Yosemite National Park.

Look at the graphic organizer. Then answer the question.

 

Which of the following best completes the Venn diagram?

 

• Women worked as maids or in factories.

• Women only left the house to go to church.

• Women worked as seamstresses and lawyers.

• Women did whatever work their husbands did.