History Quiz

Study the diagram below. Which of the following BEST completes the diagram?

• United States Expansionism

• European Imperialism

• Immigration Restrictions

• Spheres of Influence in China

Which of the following was NOT a contributing factor to the Spanish-American War?

• yellow journalism

• the explosion of the Maine

• sympathy for Cubans

• Spanish embargo of American goods

I am an army doctor originally from Alabama. During the building of the Panama Canal, I was in charge of controlling the mosquitoes that spread yellow fever and malaria. Who am I?

• Teddy Roosevelt

• William Gorgas

• Ida Tarbell

• John Dewey

Study the list below. This list BEST describes whom? - Rough Rider - Spanish-American War hero - Progressive President - Conservationist - Trust buster - Big Stick Diplomacy

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Woodrow Wilson

• Herbert Hoover

• Howard Taft

Which "Progressive" Amendment gave women the right to vote?

• 16th

• 17th

• 18th

• 19th

I am a civil rights leader who started the Niagara Movement and the NAACP. I believe that education and action are necessary to bring an end to racial discrimination. Who am I?

• Booker T. Washington

• George Washington Carver

• W.E.B. Du Bois

• Frederick Douglass

Study the political cartoon below. The cartoon depicts which type of political corruption?

• political machines

• graft

• prohibition

• trusts

Study the passage below. From which publication was this excerpt taken?

• Ida Tarbell, The History of the Standard Oil Company

• Upton Sinclair, The Jungle

• John Spargo, The Bitter Cry of the Children

• Lincoln Steffens, Shame of the Cities

Which muckraker exposed the corruption of the Standard Oil Company?

• Ida Tarbell

• Upton Sinclair

• John Dewey

• John D. Rockefeller

What effect did Plessy v Ferguson have on Jim Crow laws?

• It made the laws legal.

• It declared the laws unconstitutional.

• It made the laws unpopular in the South.

• It caused many to ignore the laws.