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WorksheetsMs. EPs Semester Review #3
Total questions: 36
Worksheet time: 34mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Which of the following resulted from the investigation of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire?
a)
the adoption of equal wages for men and women
b)
the imprisonment of company officials
c)
changes in local labor laws for women and children
d)
the passage of the Sherman Antitrust Act
2.
The RR s/trike of 1877, Pullman Strike, Haymarket Affair all show that labor unions
a)
were willing to use force to achieve their goals
b)
unable to organize large groups of workers
c)
committed to laissez-faire capitalism
d)
were supported by the government
3.
The Homestead Strike was a protest
a)
in Colorado demanding safer working conditions.
b)
Chicago demanding an eight-hour workday.
c)
against the Pullman Palace Car Company’s unsafe working conditions
d)
against the Carnegie Steel Company’s plan to cut jobs.
4.
What group of immigrants were arriving in large numbers on the West Coast in the middle to late 1800's?
a)
Greek
b)
Chinese
c)
British
d)
French
5.
What is the term for the mixture of people of different cultures and races together into Americans?
a)
Mixing Bowl
b)
Angel Food Cake
c)
Fish Tank
d)
Melting Pot
6.
The political cartoon is a criticism of which practice in the 19th century?
a)
vertical integration
b)
monopolization
c)
industrialism
d)
laissez-faire capitalism
7.
For helping those in poorest districts of Chicago, among Polish, Italian, Mexican, and other immigrants, she received Nobel Peace Prize...
a)
Jane Addams
b)
Susan B. Anthony
c)
Ida Tarbell
d)
Eleanor Roosevelt
8.
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
9.
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
10.
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
11.
This book espouses the view that the wealthy have a moral obligation to improve society with their wealth and to be philanthropic.
a)
How the Other Half Lives
b)
The Social Gospel
c)
The Gospel of Wealth
d)
The Capitalists' Guide to Wealth
12.
Based on your knowledge of written works in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which of the following books most likely inspired the demand made by the women pictured?
a)
The Great American Fraud by Samuel Hopkins Adams
b)
The Shame of Cities by Lincoln Steffens
c)
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
d)
How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis
13.
All male citizens have the right to vote. Which amendment is this?
a)
15th
b)
3rd
c)
26th
d)
14th
14.
Repealed prohibition. Which amendment is this?
a)
21st
b)
18th
c)
27th
d)
4th
15.
Slavery is abolished. Which amendment is this?
a)
13th
b)
15th
c)
24th
d)
19th
16.
Women have the right to vote. Which amendment is this?
a)
18th
b)
19th
c)
10th
d)
12th
17.
Which of the following believed in full political, civil, and social rights for African Americans?
a)
William Lloyd Douglas
b)
W.E.B. Du Bois
c)
George Washington
d)
Booker T. Washington
18.
Which of the following statements would have been a result of Jim Crow laws?
a)
All men regardless of race were allowed to vote
b)
Anyone born in the United States was a citizen of the United States.
c)
Hiram Revels was the first black person elected to the United States Senate.
d)
Separate schools were established for white children and black children.
19.
What prevented former slaves and plantation owners from marrying?
a)
15th Amendment
b)
Jim Crow Laws
c)
C. Civil Rights Act of 1866
d)
Freedmen’s Bureau
20.
-Born into slavery on a plantation in Virginia -Believed equality could be achieved through vocational education -Organized the Tuskegee Institute for agricultural and industrial education
a)
W.E.B. Du Bois
b)
Rosa Parks
c)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
d)
Booker T. Washington
21.
Which of the following descriptions was NOT a result of the Jim Crow laws?
a)
A movie theater for “Colored People”
b)
A segregated water fountain”
c)
A voting booth
d)
A “colored” waiting room at a bus station
22.
Which president was known as a "trustbuster?
a)
Theodroe Roosevelt
b)
Woodrow Wilson
c)
William Howard Taft
d)
Franklin Roosevelt
23.
Which of the following combinations were the three Progressive Presidents?
a)
Taft, Hayes, T Roosevelt
b)
Wilson, Garfield, Taft
c)
T Roosevelt, Johnson, Morgan
d)
T Roosevelt, Wilson, Taft
24.
What were the causes of World War I?
a)
alliances, socialism,communism, realism
b)
imperialism, capitalism, mercantilism, fascism
c)
militarism, alliances, imperialism, nationalism
d)
communism, nazism, racism, militarism
25.
Who was assassinated which led to the outbreak of WWI?
a)
Wilhelm II
b)
Franz Ferdinand
c)
Nicolas II
d)
George V
26.
What year did WWI begin?
a)
1911
b)
1912
c)
1913
d)
1914
27.
Which weapon was not a new technology introduced in WWI?
a)
atomic bomb
b)
submarine
c)
tank
d)
poison gas
28.
Which countries made up the Triple Entente?
a)
Great Britain, China, India
b)
France, Spain,United States
c)
Russia, Norway, Finland
d)
Great Britain, France, Russia
29.
Which weapon caused the most casualties during WWI?
a)
tank
b)
airplane
c)
machine gun
d)
zeppelin
30.
What country made an offer to Mexico proposing an alliance between the two (and a promise of regaining land if they won)
a)
Bulgaria
b)
Austria-Hungary
c)
France
d)
Germany
31.
On November 11, 1918 the fighting stopped and Germany signed and armistice, or __________.
a)
peace treaty
b)
cease-fire
c)
reparations
d)
acknowledgement of guilt
32.
Feeling of intense pride in one's homeland is
a)
militarism
b)
reparations
c)
nationalism
d)
imperialism
33.
Government sold these to raise money for the war effort
a)
stock options
b)
liberty bonds
c)
doughboys
d)
selective service act
34.
The spark that started WWI was the assassination of the __________Archduke, Franz Ferdinand.
a)
Austrian
b)
German
c)
Russian
d)
Serbian
35.
The assassination that triggered WWI occurred in what city?
a)
Vienna, Austria
b)
Sarajevo, Bosnia
c)
Moscow, Russia
d)
Belgrade, Serbia
36.
The 2 sides that emerged in WWI were called the:
a)
Axis and Allies
b)
Allies and Central Powers
c)
Reds and Whites
d)
East and West
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