American History Test: The Progressive Movement

Why was sod a common building material for homesteaders in the Great Plains?

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How did the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act affect Chinese immigrants?

• A. The act forced all people of Chinese descent to leave the United States.

• B. The act forced all Asians who were not of Chinese descent to leave the United States.

• C. The act banned any new Chinese laborers from entering the United States.

• D. The act excluded Chinese immigrants from certain privileges and duties of citizenship.

As a whole, the presidents of the Gilded Age could best be described as

• A. progressive.

• B. eloquent.

• C. unpredictable.

• D. weak.

What step did the Populist Party support to reduce the cost of railroad shipping?

• Having states control the railroads.

• Having unions control the railroads.

• Having the Populist Party control the railroads.

• Having the national government control the railroads.

How was William Jennings Bryan different from the majority of other presidential candidates of the era?

• A. He toured the nation, doing his own campaigning.

• B. He came from an impoverished rural background.

• C. He pledged to lead a corruption-free administration.

• D. He argued against the gold standard, supporting silver instead.

Why did farmers go into debt in the late 1800's?

• A. They took out loans to invest in new industries because agriculture was declining.

• B. They took loans out to diversify their crops because consumers demanded new varieties of produce.

• C. They took out loans to build roads to bring their produce to distant cities.

• D. They took out loans on the value of their farms to pay the increased costs for new machines and other supplies.

What was the importance of the Coinage Act of 1873?

• A. The act caused inflation to increase farmers' incomes.

• B. The act increased tariffs to promote jobs in manufacturing.

• C. The act retired greenbacks after they caused wartime inflation.

• D. The act reversed the policy of backing money with both gold and silver.

What led to the formation of the Populist Party?

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What was the purpose of the Fort Laramie Treaty with the Sioux?

• A. to prevent further battles with the Sioux

• B. to collect taxes from the Sioux

• C. to build a road in Sioux land to gold-mining areas

• D. to obtain complete government control over the Sioux

How did reformers hope the Dawes Act would encourage assimilation of Native Americans?

• A. The Dawes Act forbade Native Americans from speaking their tribal languages and created schools to teach English to Native American children.

• B. The Dawes Act ended tribal landholding and encouraged economic assimilation by making Native Americans private land owners.

• C. The Dawes Act gave each Native American family a land grant that allowed them to leave the economic isolation of the reservation.

• D. The Dawes Act established programs to help Native Americans learn about the dress and customs of white American society.