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WorksheetsChapters 7 & 8: Issues of the Gilded Age & Progressive Era
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 20mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What were Southern laws that discriminated against African Americans called?
a)
Spoil Laws
b)
Pendleton Civil Service Law
c)
Uncle Sam Laws
d)
Jim Crow Laws
2.
A leading advocate of women’s suffrage who got arrested for voting in an election in New York is…
a)
Carrie Chapman Catt
b)
Ida B. Wells
c)
Susan B. Anthony
d)
Gifford Pinchot
3.
What Supreme Court case established the precedent of “separate, but equal”?
a)
Yick Wo V Hopkins
b)
Plessy V Ferguson
c)
Brown V Board of Education
d)
Schenck V USA
4.
What system allowed victorious candidates to reward loyal party members with government jobs?
a)
Grange System
b)
Segregation System
c)
Population System
d)
Spoils System
5.
After the Coinage Act of 1873, money in the United States has traditionally been backed with…
a)
Gold and Silver
b)
Gold Only
c)
Silver Only
d)
Neither Gold Nor Silver
6.
What Mexican-American group terrorized white ranchers in territory taken from Mexico in the Mexican-American War?
a)
Las Gorras Blancas
b)
Santa Fe Ring
c)
The Grange
d)
Ku Klux Klan
7.
Which political party tried to build a movement of the “people” from the grass roots up and support the common man?
a)
Democratic
b)
Independent
c)
Populist
d)
Republican
8.
What was the subject of Yick Wo V Hopkins?
a)
Voting Rights of Asian
Americans
b)
Segregation in American
Schools
c)
Property Ownership for
Asian Americans
d)
Language Rights of Mexican
Americans
9.
What treaty ended the War with Mexico?
a)
Treaty of Paris
b)
Treaty of Versailles
c)
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
d)
Treaty of Ghent
10.
The group of wealthy white Americans who used political ties to take land from Mexicans following the War with Mexico were known as…
a)
Las Gorras Blancas
b)
Santa Fe Ring
c)
The Grange
d)
Ku Klux Klan
11.
___________________ required all government workers to take an exam to prove competency in a field of a job.
a)
Jim Crow Laws
b)
Pendleton Civil Service Act
c)
The Grange
d)
Grandfather Clauses
12.
Who was the former slave who started a newspaper publicizing and denouncing lynching called Free Speech?
a)
Susan B. Anthony
b)
Grover Cleveland
c)
Ida B. Wells
d)
W.E.B. DuBois
13.
Who was the Populist candidate for President of the United States in 1896?
a)
William "Boss" Tweed
b)
Booker T. Washington
c)
Woodrow Wilson
d)
William Jennings Bryan
14.
The assassination of ________________ helped bring an end to the Spoils System.
a)
Grover Cleveland
b)
Rutherford B. Hayes
c)
James Garfield
d)
Woodrow Wilson
15.
What President was known for his integrity and resistance to governmental corruption?
a)
Grover Cleveland
b)
Rutherford B. Hayes
c)
James Garfield
d)
Woodrow Wilson
16.
Who authored several newspaper columns leading to the collapse of the corrupt rule of “Boss” Tweed?
a)
Carrie Chapman Catt
b)
Thomas Nast
c)
Oliver H. Kelley
d)
Gifford Pinchot
17.
The Chinese Exclusion Act…
a)
barred U.S. cities from
hiring Chinese workers.
b)
prohibited Chinese laborers
from entering the country.
c)
stripped Chinese Americans of their U.S.
citizenship.
d)
forced Chinese children to
attend segregated schools.
18.
Which group would NOT be subject to segregation in 19th Century America?
a)
Mexican Americans
b)
Catholic Americans
c)
Asian Americans
d)
African Americans
19.
Which is NOT true of working conditions for the average American factory worker?
a)
Worked long hours
b)
Used dangerous machines
c)
Were well-compensated
d)
Received little safety
training or equipment
20.
Progressivism was the belief that _____________________ could correct most of the nation’s problems identified previously on the test.
a)
Honest Change
b)
Political Conservatism
c)
Reducing Government
d)
Expelling Immigrants
21.
_______________________ are journalists who publicized society’s problems through media (print, radio, and photography).
a)
Luddites
b)
Scabs
c)
Political Machines
d)
Muckrakers
22.
Upton Sinclair’s novel, The Jungle, led to the passage of which of the following Progressive Era acts?
a)
Clayton Antitrust Act
b)
Meat Inspection Act
c)
Federal Reserve Act
d)
Temperance Act
23.
_____________________ is the belief that the Bible’s teachings of charity and justice should be the basis for fixing society’s problems.
a)
Temperance
b)
Americanization
c)
Social Gospel
d)
Nativism
24.
Which is NOT true of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
a)
There were many other fires
in factories, schools, and public housing like this.
b)
Most victims were teenage
girls.
c)
Most victims were
immigrants.
d)
There was really
nothing that could have been done to prevent the deaths.
25.
______________________, a Progressive reform, allows voters to choose a candidate to represent a party in a given election.
a)
Direct Primary
b)
Initiative
c)
Recall
d)
Referendum
26.
______________________, a Progressive reform, allows voters to remove a politician from public office before their term is up if they fail to live up to promises.
a)
Direct Primary
b)
Initiative
c)
Referendum
d)
Recall
27.
______________________, a Progressive reform, allows voters to approve or reject a proposed law.
a)
Direct Primary
b)
Initiative
c)
Recall
d)
Referendum
28.
______________________, a Progressive reform, allows citizens to put a law on the ballot by way of petition.
a)
Direct Primary
b)
Initiative
c)
Recall
d)
Referendum
29.
Which amendment in 1913 allowed the federal government to place a federal tax on citizens’ incomes?
a)
13th Amendment
b)
14th Amendment
c)
16th Amendment
d)
18th Amendment
30.
The Temperance Movement sought to eliminate what in America?
a)
Racism
b)
Alcohol
c)
Women's Rights
d)
Illegal Immigration
31.
What is the right to vote referred to as?
a)
Settlement
b)
Nationalism
c)
Americanization
d)
Suffrage
32.
The NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) sought equality for African Americans by using what methods?
a)
Violent Rebellion
b)
Legal Action (Court Cases)
c)
Peaceful Demonstration
d)
Media and the Arts
33.
The Anti-Defamation League is an organization established during the Progressive Era to protect the rights of what type of Americans?
a)
Catholic
b)
African Americans
c)
Mexican Americans
d)
Jewish
34.
What was the name of Teddy Roosevelt’s program to strengthen America and fight corrupt trusts?
a)
New Deal
b)
New Freedom
c)
Square Deal
d)
Free Deal
35.
Who was Roosevelt’s hand-picked successor as President of the United States?
a)
William McKinley
b)
William Howard Taft
c)
Woodrow Wilson
d)
Willy Wonka
36.
What political party did Roosevelt belong to during his presidencies?
a)
Democratic
b)
Republican
c)
Populist
d)
Independent
37.
What was the nickname of the political party Roosevelt created in order to challenge his former understudy in the Election of 1912?
a)
Green Party
b)
Strong Bear Party
c)
Bull Moose Party
d)
Free Soil Party
38.
Who won the Presidential Election of 1912?
a)
Eugene V. Debs
b)
Teddy Roosevelt
c)
William Howard Taft
d)
Woodrow Wilson
39.
What former slave believed that African Americans needed to “pull themselves up by their bootstraps” to achieve gradual change through education and hard work?
a)
W.E.B. DuBois
b)
Booker T. Washington
c)
George Washington Carver
d)
Henry Herringshaw
40.
What Harvard lawyer demanded that African Americans receive immediate equality in American society?
a)
W.E.B. DuBois
b)
Booker T. Washington
c)
George Washington Carver
d)
Henry Herringshaw
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