WorksheetsPeriod 6 + Progressives
Total questions: 75
Worksheet time: 2hrs 44mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Speech by William Jennings Bryan
a)
The Gettysburg Address
b)
Cross of Gold
c)
I Have a Dream
d)
Homestead Act
2.
Who wrote "A Century Of Dishonor"?
a)
William Jennings Bryan
b)
Helen Hunt Jackson
c)
William McKinley
d)
George Custer
3.
This general was defeated in the Battle of Little Big Horn
a)
Ullysses S. Grant
b)
Robert E. Lee
c)
William McKinley
d)
George Custer
4.
This movement abdicated for a return to traditional ways of life and challenge white dominance in society.
a)
Ghost Dance Movement
b)
Temperance Movement
c)
The Pullman Strike
d)
The People's Party
5.
Who led the Pullman Strike?
a)
Chief Joseph
b)
Eugene Debs
c)
George Custer
d)
Helen Hunt Jackson
6.
Who was one of the Sioux leader and was also called the "medicine man"
a)
Crazy Horse
b)
Medicine Man
c)
Chief joseph
d)
Sitting Bull
7.
This period during the 1870s to 1900 is known for it's rise of railroads, big business, industrialization and social problems in the United States.
a)
World War I
b)
Progressive Era
c)
Gilded age
d)
Roaring Twenties
8.
in 1882, the Government passed this legislation that restricted immigration for 10 years from a certain group into the United States.
a)
Nativist Act
b)
Mexican Reparition Act
c)
Dawes Act
d)
Chinese Exclusion Act
9.
During the Gilded age, workers came together to work for better pay, working conditions, and less hours. Leaders such as Samuel Gompers help led many of this workers in....
a)
Philanthropy
b)
Labor Unions
c)
Political Bosses
d)
Credit Unions
10.
Under this policy in 1887, the Government gave Native Americans land in order to farm land, just like European farmers.
a)
Dawes Act
b)
Ghost Dance
c)
Trail of Tears
d)
Laws Act
11.
The innovation of this transportation help open up the national market?
a)
boats
b)
railroads
c)
autombils
d)
horse drawn carriages
12.
During the 19th and early 20th century, These men helped immigrants with jobs and housing in order to control votes during election?
a)
political parties
b)
El Chapo
c)
political bosses
d)
republican party
13.
Old Immigrants that came to the United States in the early 1900s were from which part of Europe?
a)
South Europe
b)
NE Europe
c)
SW Europe
d)
SE Europe
14.
Men such as Andrew Carnegie believed in giving money to libraries, musuems and schools to help benefit people who wanted to move up in the social ladder.
a)
geopolitical
b)
political bosses
c)
anthropolgy
d)
philanthropy
15.
The Pendleton Act of United States in 1883 decided that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit (test) instead of political affiliation.
a)
direct voting
b)
civil service reform
c)
political machines
d)
civil labor unions
16.
Due to the corruption of the railroads companies, the U.S. government created this act to regulate railroad companies to be reasonable in prices.
a)
Interstate Commerece Act
b)
Dawes Act
c)
Transcontiental Act
d)
Laizzez Faire Act
17.
In what area did the government give land to settlers to farm and expand west in the Homestead Act?
a)
Texas
b)
East Coast
c)
Great Plains
d)
Rocky Mountains
18.
Because of the rapid growth of Industrilization in the North people moved out of rural towns to?
a)
Rural farms
b)
Urbanzied cities
c)
Subrebs cities
d)
El rancho
19.
Because of the expansion to the west, what effects did the creation of railroads cause for the Great Plains?
a)
movement of Native americans and animals and erosin of soil
b)
death of Native Americans
c)
movement of only buffalo
d)
railroad robberies
20.
Many Immigrants faced issues once they arrived such as language barriers, but these group of people mostly restricted new immigrants from emtering the country.
a)
Democrats
b)
Republicans
c)
Donald Trump
d)
Nativists
21.
This is the term for immigrants that is the process for turning and teaching immigrants about the culture and government of the United States.
a)
Americanization
b)
Nativism
c)
American
d)
MexiCAN
22.
The Farmer's Alliance and the Grange, both founded during the Gilded Age, stood for additional government regulation of trade and creating the conditions for more political power and economic well being for farmers (as compared to industrialists). What 1890s group was founded, supporting these ideas, and attacking the Gold Standard?
a)
Progressives
b)
Free Soil Party
c)
IWW
d)
Populists
23.
What New York politician ran a political machine in New York City beginning in 1869, during the Gilded Age, that was incredibly corrupt. For example, a projected cost of $250,000 for a courthouse turned in to $13,000,000 because of kickbacks and bribes.
a)
Daley
b)
Grant
c)
Tilden
d)
Tweed
24.
What was a city government marked by corruption, bribery, and Kickbacks (common during the Gilded Age) called?
a)
credit mobilier
b)
political machine
c)
corrected democracy
d)
electoral politics
25.
Congressional action taken in 1890, during the Gilded Age, that made "contracts, conspiracies, and combinations" that restrained free trade illegal. This was done to stop the abusiv practices of organized trusts in oil, sugar, tobacco...
a)
Sherman Antitrust Act
b)
Celler-Kefauver Act
c)
Clayton Antitrust Act
d)
Interstate Commerce Act
26.
Congressional action taken in 1887, during the Gilded Age, to stop the unfair and abusive practices of railroad companies. That is, to stop railroad companies from giving low prices to large shippers (Corporations) and high prices to farmers who had no other shupping options.
a)
Sherman Antitrust Act
b)
Celler-Kefauver Act
c)
Clayton Antitrust Act
d)
Interstate Commerce Act
27.
A group of companies in the same industry giving day-to-day operation of their companies over to a single board of directors.
a)
monopoly
b)
corporation
c)
trust
d)
horizontal Integration
28.
Standard Oil was founded in 1870 by John d. Rockefeller (during the Gilded Age). Established as a trust, it gained monopolistic pricing power in oil and kerosene and was able to demand and receive exceptionally favorable shipping rates from railroads. In 1905, during the Progressive Era, who attacked Standard Oil as a too pwoerful monopoly?
a)
Ida Tarbell
b)
Upton Sinclair
c)
Harvey Wiley
d)
Andrew Carnegie
29.
In 1889, during the Gilded Age, a Settlement House called Hull House was opened in Chicago. It was designed to help working class women, many recent immigrants, move out of poverty and dependence on others. It sought to address some of the excesses of industry and business. Who founded Hull House?
a)
Margaret Sanger
b)
Jane Addams
c)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
d)
Susan B. Anthony
30.
In 1890, during the Gilded Age, who wrote about and photographed the horrible living conditions of America's working poor in the Book, How the Other Half Lives?
a)
Upton Sinclair
b)
Ida Tarbell
c)
Ida Wells
d)
Jacob Riis
31.
William Graham Sumner was a popular researcher and writer during the Gilded Age. He believed that government programs to help the poor were useless because, "...a drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be..." That is, Sumner believed that we all had a certin station or place that was rodained and could not be changed. This Gilded Age philosophy was called which of the following?
a)
Evolution
b)
Monetary Policy
c)
Social Darwinism
d)
Welfare Capitalism
32.
Described as a time marked by gross income inequality and corrupt practices by corporations and abuse of workers, the term "Gilded Age" was coined by what writer?
a)
Upton Sinclair
b)
Andrew Carnegie
c)
Mark Twian
d)
Henry George
33.
How some industrialists like John D. Rockefeller reacted to government restrictions on their businesses?
a)
Developing independent councils to oversee stock transactions
b)
Placing companies under control of boards of trustees
c)
Involving labor union leaders in workplace decisions
d)
Creating new political parties and personally running for political offices
34.
One reason nativists worried about influx of immigrants in 1880s...
a)
Feared immigrants gain control of city and state governments
b)
Believed immigrants receive preferential treatment from federal government and receive land
c)
Thought country's ports could not handle increasing numbers of immigrants and exports
d)
Considered immigrants from southern and eastern Europe a threat to traditional American cultural values
35.
The political cartoon is a criticism of which practice in the 19th century?
a)
vertical integration
b)
monopolization
c)
industrialism
d)
laissez-faire capitalism
36.
How Haymarket Square affected Knights of Labor?
a)
Massive gathering of workers forced federal government to place limits on union's activities
b)
Workers lost confidence in union's leadership after union president given details of rally to police
c)
Union members grew disillusioned as newspapers blamed workers for violence
d)
Union's emphasis on recruiting immigrants angered American-born workers
37.
What issue split Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois?
a)
Washington's lesser emphasis on attainment of political and civil rights
b)
Washington's unwillingness to accept advice from anyone other than African Americans
c)
DuBois's belief that African Americans needed to achieve economic self-sufficiency
d)
DuBois's minimization of importance of education
38.
How the incandescent lightbulb improved nineteenth-century urban conditions?
a)
Created possibility of home-based businesses
b)
Prompted more immigrants to remain in large cities
c)
Enabled passenger trains to operate at night
d)
Replaced dirty and dangerous gaslight
39.
How did vertical integration benefit companies such as Carnegie Steel?
a)
Allowed labor unions to participate in decision-making
b)
Controlled production and distribution processes
c)
Invested in health and education of employees
d)
Included local politicians on boards of directors
40.
Who were Exodusters?
a)
American Indians demanding return of tribal lands
b)
Eastern Europeans immigrating to US after WWI
c)
African Americans leaving South after Civil War
d)
Colonial Americans forming local militias during Revolution
41.
Technological development most revolutionized US steel industry?
a)
Electrification
b)
Vulcanization
c)
Steam power
d)
Bessemer Process
42.
How did KoL differ from AFL?
a)
KoL advocated strikes as tactic
b)
KoL opened membership to women, blacks, and ethnic minorities
c)
KoL developed stronger relationships with policymakers at federal level
d)
KoL focused on working conditions and workplace safety instead wages and benefits
43.
Construction of Central Pacific Railroad relied largely on who?
a)
Chinese
b)
German
c)
Irish
d)
Mexican
44.
Use of barbed wire most associated with which outcome?
a)
Completion of Union Pacific Railroad
b)
End of open range and frontier
c)
Increased prospecting and mining activity
d)
Increased demand for and production of steel
45.
Populists supported a bimetallic standard because they believed:
a)
It would result in deflation
b)
It would increase bank regulations
c)
It would result in inflation
d)
None of the following - they supported continuation of the Gold Standard
46.
The Gilded Age described the period because:
a)
The US was on a Gold Standard as of 1873
b)
There were grave problems behind the seeming opulence of the era
c)
It was a period of growth and intensive manual labor
d)
It resulted in only benefits for the nation
47.
Members of which group most likely to belong to Populist Party?
a)
Anarchists
b)
Farmers
c)
Industrialists
d)
Immigrants
48.
Based on your knowledge of the Second Industrial Revolution in the United States, what statement is this cartoon making?
a)
The federal government is ruining the oil industry by placing too many restrictions and regulations on business owners.
b)
The oil industry is thriving due to a healthy working relationship with the federal government.
c)
The owner of Standard Oil has too much power and influence over the federal government.
d)
Emissions from oil refineries are polluting the air and harming the environment.
49.
Which of following was most closely associated with the Populist Party?
a)
Jane Addams
b)
William Jennings Bryan
c)
Eugene Debs
d)
Samuel Gompers
50.
What was the main goal of most muckraking journalists?
a)
Gain fame through articles of high popular interest
b)
Expose socioeconomic problems in need of political attention
c)
Increase public awareness of America's great potential
d)
End corrupt relationships between politicians and big business
51.
John Muir and Theodore Roosevelt worked together on which movement?
a)
safe food and drug laws
b)
conservation
c)
racial equality
d)
child labor laws
52.
What does Trust-busting mean?
a)
end discrimination
b)
stop monopolies (restore competition)
c)
label ingredients on food and drugs
d)
election for political offices
53.
Why did Upton Sinclair write The Jungle (even though he "missed")?
a)
show racial discrimination
b)
show the poor working conditions in factories
c)
establish dietary guidelines
d)
fix drug regulations
54.
What did the NAACP focus on?
a)
child labor
b)
equal rights
c)
conservation
d)
protection of animals
55.
What did both John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie do after they retired?
a)
spent money on themselves
b)
got elected into office
c)
stopped the government from breaking up monopolies
d)
donated money to charity
56.
Why does an election primary increase people's political power?
a)
Candidates chosen by party bosses
b)
Candidates chosen by the people
57.
A leader in the battle against child labor
a)
Robert La Follette
b)
Ida B. Wells
c)
Frances Willard
d)
Florence Kelley
58.
Author of the "The Jungle", which exposed the horrors of the meatpacking industry.
a)
Ida B. Wells
b)
Upton Sinclair
c)
Robert La Follette
d)
Frances Willard
59.
Investigative author who exposed unsanitary conditions
a)
muckracker
b)
tenement
c)
subsitence
d)
industrialization
60.
How were populists and progressives alike?
a)
mostly made up of farmers
b)
focused on the ability of knowledgeable experts
c)
generally lived in cities.
d)
feared the concentration of power in the hands of wealthy few
61.
Suffrage
a)
The right to work in factories
b)
The right to live in America
c)
The right to vote
d)
The right not to vote
62.
Social Darwinism
a)
The idea that people and societies compete for survival
b)
Journalist who uncovered and proved the truth about the evil of big buisness and politics in America.
c)
NAACP
d)
The Jungle
63.
This Amendment gave women the right to vote
a)
16th
b)
17th
c)
18th
d)
19th
64.
A law that prohibits the sale of mislabeled or contaminated food
a)
Pure Food and Drug Act
b)
Meat inspections
c)
Food and Drug Administration
d)
Occupational Safety and Health Admin
65.
To remove through a vote
a)
referendum
b)
socialism
c)
recall
d)
capitalism
66.
Which Amendment isn't in place today?
a)
16th
b)
17th
c)
18th
d)
19th
67.
New laws can be proposed by voters by collecting signatures on a petition
a)
recall
b)
referendum
c)
impressionism
d)
initiative
68.
This amendment allows people to vote directly for Senators
a)
16th
b)
17th
c)
18th
d)
19th
69.
The protection of nature and its resources is known as
a)
recycling
b)
conservation
c)
communism
d)
socialism
70.
This amendment prohibited the production, transport, and sale of alcohol
a)
16th
b)
17th
c)
18th
d)
19th
71.
Voters can approve or reject a law that was already passed
a)
recall
b)
initiative
c)
referendum
d)
17th Amendment
72.
Which of the following incident originally allowed Roosevelt to become President?
a)
He was elected.
b)
McKinley was assassinated.
c)
McKinley resigned.
d)
McKinley was impeached.
73.
Because Roosevelt went after large trusts, he was known as a
a)
muckraker.
b)
trustbuster.
c)
suffragist.
d)
businessman.
74.
Because Taft and Roosevelt split the republican vote in 1912
a)
Taft won the election.
b)
Wilson won the election
c)
Roosevelt won the election
d)
No one won
75.
The "Bull Moose Party" was
a)
the name of Wilson's party
b)
the name of Roosevelt's party
c)
the name of Taft's party
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