Fall Final U.S. History Quiz

Which Reconstruction-era practice severely limited Black voting rights in the South?

• Black Codes

• Poll taxes and literacy tests

• Sharecropping

• The Pendleton Act

What business practice did John D. Rockefeller use to eliminate competition by combining companies that performed different steps in production?

• Horizontal integration

• Laissez-faire economics

• Vertical integration

• Trust building

Who believed that African Americans could achieve equality through economic independence before addressing civil rights?

• W.E.B. Du Bois

• Boss Tweed

• Booker T. Washington

• Upton Sinclair

Which Progressive Era writer exposed the unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry?

• Boss Tweed

• Carnegie

• Morgan

• Upton Sinclair

What was the primary goal of the Committee of Public Information during World War I?

• To manage war propaganda

• To regulate food production

• To oversee military recruitment

• To control industrial production

The 'talented tenth' concept was promoted by:

• The Harlem Hellfighters

• W.E.B. Du Bois

• Booker T. Washington

• Boss Tweed

What legislation made it illegal to criticize the U.S. government during World War I?

• The Meat Inspection Act

• The Pendleton Act

• The Espionage and Sedition Acts

• The Reconstruction Amendments

Political machines gained support primarily through:

• Reform legislation

• Industrial monopolies

• Providing services to immigrants

• Progressive movements

President Wilson's Fourteen Points included:

• Black Codes

• The League of Nations

• Vertical integration

• The Pendleton Act

The Gilded Age was characterized by:

• Government regulation

• Economic equality

• Political reform

• Industrial monopolies