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Unit 1

Total questions: 49

Worksheet time: 26mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Match the invention/business with its inventor or entrepreneur.
Alexander Graham Bell
a)
steel
b)
telephone
c)
railroad sleeping car
d)
Morse code
2.
Match the invention/business with its inventor or entrepreneur.
Thomas Edison
a)
light bulb
b)
banking
c)
telephone
d)
oil
3.
Match the invention/business with its inventor or entrepreneur.
J.P. Morgan
a)
banking
b)
stove to make steel
c)
Morse code
d)
railroad air brake
4.
Match the invention/business with its inventor or entrepreneur.
Cornelius Vanderbilt
a)
oil
b)
telephone
c)
railroads and shipping
d)
steel
5.
Match the invention/business with its inventor or entrepreneur.
Henry Bessemer
a)
banking
b)
stove for making steel
c)
railroad sleeping car
d)
dry goods store
6.
Match the invention/business with its inventor or entrepreneur.
Andrew Carnegie
a)
oil
b)
telephone
c)
banking
d)
steel
7.
Match the invention/business with its inventor or entrepreneur.
John D. Rockefeller
a)
oil
b)
steel
c)
railroad and shipping
d)
telephone
8.
If you were immigrating to the United States on the east coast, what processing center would you enter?
a)
Angel Island
b)
Citizen Island
c)
Ellis Island
d)
America Island
9.

If you immigrated to the United States after 1890, what areas of the world did you come from?

a)
Eastern Europe
b)
Western Europe
c)
Northern Europe
d)
Canada
10.
What was the purpose of political machines in urban areas? 
a)
Political Machines provided education to all children in urban cities.
b)
Political Machines provided services for immigrants in exchange for votes.
c)
Political Machines campaigned for political candidates in urban neighborhoods.
d)
Political Machines provided security and protection for individuals living in urban areas.
11.
What caused the industrial revolution in America in the 1870s? 
a)
Abundance of natural resources.
b)
Plentiful Labor force
c)
Reliable transportation-railroads
d)
All of the Above
12.
What is the belief that native-born white Americans were superior to newcomers? 
a)
individualism
b)
nationalism
c)
nativism
d)
racism
13.
Why did people want to move to urban areas in the 1870s? 
a)
Urban areas provided healthcare for all.
b)
Jobs were easily available in urban areas.
c)
Urban areas provided better housing for citizens.
d)
Urban areas provided education for all children.
14.
What pushed immigrants out of their home country? 
a)
Freedom
b)
War
c)
Jobs
d)
Land
15.
What would pull an immigrant into a new country? 
a)
Famine
b)
War
c)
Religious persecution
d)
Job opportunities
16.

Pittsburgh became the 8th largest city in the United States during the Gilded Age due to its production of the world's ___________________.

a)

oil

b)

gasoline

c)

steel

d)

meat packaging

17.

What event led to Boss Tweed’s arrest and conviction?

a)

Passing of Gentlemen's Agreement in 1907.

b)

Publishing of Thomas Nast's political cartoons in the New York Times led to an investigation of Tweed and Tammany Hall

c)

The Compromise of 1877 led to the end of political machines in the United States.

d)

Quota laws limited immigrants entering the United States.

18.

What is the Gentlemen’s Agreement of 1907?

a)

Union and Confederate soldiers agree to end the Civil War.

b)

China and the United States agree to end Chinese immigration to the United States for 10 years.

c)

Japan and the United States agree to end Japanese immigration to the United States for 10 years.

d)

United States requires immigrants to pass a literacy test to become a citizen.

19.

What happened at Wounded Knee in 1892?

a)

George Custer’s attempt to protect white settlers from Indian tribes.

b)

Government refused to allow Native Americans to participate in a land race.

c)

Homesteaders killed all the buffalo making it impossible for Native Americans to survive.

d)

U.S. Army murdered Sioux Indians as a result of the Native American Ghost Dance.

20.

What caused the rapid population growth in the city of Chicago?

a)

Immigration entrance point on the east coast

b)

Steel manufacturing center

c)

Meat packaging

d)

Oil reserves

21.

What group is credited with building the first transcontinental railroad?

a)

Japanese immigrants

b)

Russian immigrants

c)

Former slaves

d)

Chinese immigrants

22.

What obstacles did Americans face in settling the West?

a)

Lack of medical supplies

b)

Not enough land

c)

Poor conditions of roads for driving

d)

Locusts

23.

What caused the closing of the West and the completion of Manifest Destiny?

a)

Dawes Act

b)

Chinese Exclusion Act

c)

Interstate Commerce Act

d)

Homestead Act

24.

The 1887 Dawes Act was passed to

a)

help Native Americans reclaim their land taken under the Indian Relocation Act.

b)

compensate Native Americans for land taken after the Civil War.

c)

move Native Americans on western reservations.

d)

force Native Americans to adopt Western (white ) culture and traditions.

25.

The Ku Klux Klan formed during Reconstruction with the purpose of

a)

fighting Union armies stationed in the South.

b)

keeping African Americans from achieving political, economic, and social rights.

c)

taking control of Southern state governments.

d)

helping poor whites improve their economic status.

26.

What was the outcome of the Pacific Railway Act?

a)

The first transcontinental railroad was built allowing for easy travel from east to west.

b)

Reconstruction ended and the South returned to its pre-Civil War treatment of African Americans.

c)

Act made it easier for scientist and innovators to create new goods and services.

d)

Act allowed immigrants to gain citizenship to the United States after completing the process and paying entry tax.

27.

Congress in 1882 passed legislation restricting the entry of immigrants from which of the following country?

a)

Japan

b)

Mexico

c)

China

d)

Italy

28.

The end of military Reconstruction and election of1876 came as a result of what?

a)

Dawes Act

b)

Compromise of 1877

c)

Chinese Exclusion Act

d)

Homestead Act

29.

Often poorly built, a __________________ is a multi-family apartment built to house rising immigrant populations in urban areas.

a)

shack

b)

skyscraper

c)

tenement

d)

mesa

30.

Who was the richest American of all time?

a)

Andrew Carnegie

b)

John D. Rockefeller

c)

J.P. Morgan

d)

Cornelius Vanderbilt

31.

Match the invention/business with its inventor or entrepreneur.

Nikola Tesla

a)

Light bulb

b)

A/C electricity

c)

phonograph

d)

telephone

32.

Match the invention/business with its inventor or entrepreneur.

Madam C.J. Walker

a)

Black makeup and hair products

b)

Light bulb

c)

Barbed wire

d)

steel tractor

33.

Match the invention/business with its inventor or entrepreneur.

James Cash Penney

a)

sewing machine

b)

Morse code

c)

Dry goods store (clothing)

d)

typewriter

34.

What amendment abolished (ended) slavery in the United States?

a)

12th Amendment

b)

13th Amendment

c)

14th Amendment

d)

15th Amendment

35.

Author of the Declaration of Independence ?

a)

Thomas Jefferson

b)

George Washington

c)

Abraham Lincoln

d)

Thomas Paine

36.

The Indian Removal Act called for the removal of ______ Indians from SE Tennessee and NW Georgia by 1838 or be forcibly removed by the U.S. Army.

a)

Seminole

b)

Seneca

c)

Cherokee

d)

Lakota Sioux

37.

Author of the Star Spangled Banner ?

a)

Mariah Carey

b)

George Gershwin

c)

Dolly Madison

d)

Francis Scott Key

38.

Head of the Union Army during the Civil War?

a)

Robert E. Lee

b)

Ulysses S. Grant

c)

General Andrew Jackson

d)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

39.

Constitutional amendment that strengthened the rights of citizenship, the right to trial, and the right to jury after the Civil War?

a)

12th Amendment

b)

13th Amendment

c)

14th Amendment

d)

15th Amendment

40.

Because of belief in the __________________, Southern towns erected statues and memorials to Confederate battles and figures to always remember what life was like before the Civil War.

a)

Lost Cause Myth

b)

Lincoln Plan

c)

Military Reconstruction Plan

d)

Redeemers

41.

Many African Americans were forced to become _________ after the Civil War, where they leased land from wealthy landowners and used their crops to pay rent.

a)

cattle drivers

b)

cowboys

c)

sharecroppers

d)

Pinkerton Guards

42.

To prevent African Americans from voting, states enacted Black codes requiring __________, which voters paid a fee to vote.

a)

literacy test

b)

poll tax

c)

grandfather clause

d)

tariff

43.

In the movie Far and Away, what character helps Joseph and Shannon find a job and home in Boston?

a)

Molly Kay

b)

Thomas Crown

c)

Mike Kelly

d)

Daniel Christie

44.

The killing of what animal brought an end to Native American life in the West much faster than anyone anticipated.

a)

cattle

b)

wolves

c)

elk

d)

buffalo

45.

Match the invention/business with its inventor or entrepreneur.

George Pullman

a)

sleeping car for trains

b)

automobile

c)

camera

d)

steel

46.

Match the invention/business with its inventor or entrepreneur.

George Eastman

a)

stove to produce steel

b)

oil

c)

camera

d)

flour

47.

Match the invention/business with its inventor or entrepreneur.

Philip Armour

a)

Hair products for African American women

b)

steel

c)

oil

d)

meat packaging

48.

What political party gained control of the South after the Compromise of 1877?

a)

Southern Democrats known as the Redeemers

b)

Moderate Republicans called Radical Republicans

c)

Socialist Democrats

d)

Communists

49.

This act gave away up to 160 acres of land to anyone-including former slaves, women, and immigrants- in the western part of the United States.

a)

Interstate Commerce Act

b)

Dawes Act

c)

Homestead Act

d)

Pacific Railway Act