STAAR Blitz Quiz

Match the following

• voting in elections, staying informed, lobbying for your beliefs, serving on a jury

• Declaration of Independence

• each branch of government has some power over the other two branches

• checks and balances

• right to due process, eminent domain, Miranda rights

• civic responsibilities

• stated America would be a country based on consent of the governed/unalienable rights

• 5th amendment

Which of the following was NOT a value listed by Alexis de Tocqueville? (a)  

• Segregation
• Liberty
• Laissez-faire
• Populism
• Individualism

The process for which steel could be massed produced. Helped with urbanization and the development of the rail road system.​ ​ (a)  

• Bessemer Process
• Carnegie Process
• Homestead Act
• Monopoly
• Factory system

Which Three options best describe the impact of the Transcontinental Railroad?

• Motivated immigrants to come to America

• Connected the east and the west coast

• Opened up new markets to sell products

• Helped to move settlers out West

Match the following

• Urbanization

• Forced native Americans onto reservations and forced them to assimilate

• Homestead Act

• Gave settlers 160 acres of land to move out west

• Pull factors

• One business controls all aspects of an industry, eliminating all competition

• Monopoly

• People moved to the cities to work in the factories

• Dawes Act

• Job opportunities, freedom of religion, freedom from persecution

Labor unions, like the Knights of Labor, worked to

• prevent an increase in minimum wage

• allow women to have the same rights as men in the workplace

• improve the working conditions of laborers

• unite workers across the world to bring about a communist revolution

Which muckraker wrote The Jungle, which resulted in the creation of the Pure Food and Drug Act and the FDA (a)  

• Ida Tarbell
• Jacob Riis
• Thomas Nast
• Upton Sinclair

Passage of the Clayton Anti Trust Act, 18th amendment, and Pure Food and Drug Act were all part of the (a)  

• Progressive Era
• Great Society
• Great Depression
• Jazz Age

What was the most likely result of the publication of images such as this 1906 political cartoon?

• The government passed the Sherman Antitrust Act

• Private companies refused to import foreign foods.

• The government passed the Pure Food and Drug Act

• Labor unions protested unsafe working conditions

Which of the following was NOT part of the Square Deal

• Conservation of natural resources

• Control of the voters

• Control of Corporations

• Consumer protection