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WorksheetsUnit 1
Total questions: 49
Worksheet time: 26mins
Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Edison
J.P. Morgan
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Henry Bessemer
Andrew Carnegie
John D. Rockefeller
If you immigrated to the United States after 1890, what areas of the world did you come from?
Pittsburgh became the 8th largest city in the United States during the Gilded Age due to its production of the world's ___________________.
oil
gasoline
steel
meat packaging
What event led to Boss Tweed’s arrest and conviction?
Passing of Gentlemen's Agreement in 1907.
Publishing of Thomas Nast's political cartoons in the New York Times led to an investigation of Tweed and Tammany Hall
The Compromise of 1877 led to the end of political machines in the United States.
Quota laws limited immigrants entering the United States.
What is the Gentlemen’s Agreement of 1907?
Union and Confederate soldiers agree to end the Civil War.
China and the United States agree to end Chinese immigration to the United States for 10 years.
Japan and the United States agree to end Japanese immigration to the United States for 10 years.
United States requires immigrants to pass a literacy test to become a citizen.
What happened at Wounded Knee in 1892?
George Custer’s attempt to protect white settlers from Indian tribes.
Government refused to allow Native Americans to participate in a land race.
Homesteaders killed all the buffalo making it impossible for Native Americans to survive.
U.S. Army murdered Sioux Indians as a result of the Native American Ghost Dance.
What caused the rapid population growth in the city of Chicago?
Immigration entrance point on the east coast
Steel manufacturing center
Meat packaging
Oil reserves
What group is credited with building the first transcontinental railroad?
Japanese immigrants
Russian immigrants
Former slaves
Chinese immigrants
What obstacles did Americans face in settling the West?
Lack of medical supplies
Not enough land
Poor conditions of roads for driving
Locusts
What caused the closing of the West and the completion of Manifest Destiny?
Dawes Act
Chinese Exclusion Act
Interstate Commerce Act
Homestead Act
The 1887 Dawes Act was passed to
help Native Americans reclaim their land taken under the Indian Relocation Act.
compensate Native Americans for land taken after the Civil War.
move Native Americans on western reservations.
force Native Americans to adopt Western (white ) culture and traditions.
The Ku Klux Klan formed during Reconstruction with the purpose of
fighting Union armies stationed in the South.
keeping African Americans from achieving political, economic, and social rights.
taking control of Southern state governments.
helping poor whites improve their economic status.
What was the outcome of the Pacific Railway Act?
The first transcontinental railroad was built allowing for easy travel from east to west.
Reconstruction ended and the South returned to its pre-Civil War treatment of African Americans.
Act made it easier for scientist and innovators to create new goods and services.
Act allowed immigrants to gain citizenship to the United States after completing the process and paying entry tax.
Congress in 1882 passed legislation restricting the entry of immigrants from which of the following country?
Japan
Mexico
China
Italy
The end of military Reconstruction and election of1876 came as a result of what?
Dawes Act
Compromise of 1877
Chinese Exclusion Act
Homestead Act
Often poorly built, a __________________ is a multi-family apartment built to house rising immigrant populations in urban areas.
shack
skyscraper
tenement
mesa
Who was the richest American of all time?
Andrew Carnegie
John D. Rockefeller
J.P. Morgan
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Match the invention/business with its inventor or entrepreneur.
Nikola Tesla
Light bulb
A/C electricity
phonograph
telephone
Match the invention/business with its inventor or entrepreneur.
Madam C.J. Walker
Black makeup and hair products
Light bulb
Barbed wire
steel tractor
Match the invention/business with its inventor or entrepreneur.
James Cash Penney
sewing machine
Morse code
Dry goods store (clothing)
typewriter
What amendment abolished (ended) slavery in the United States?
12th Amendment
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
Author of the Declaration of Independence ?
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Thomas Paine
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.
Seminole
Seneca
Cherokee
Lakota Sioux
Author of the Star Spangled Banner ?
Mariah Carey
George Gershwin
Dolly Madison
Francis Scott Key
Head of the Union Army during the Civil War?
Robert E. Lee
Ulysses S. Grant
General Andrew Jackson
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Constitutional amendment that strengthened the rights of citizenship, the right to trial, and the right to jury after the Civil War?
12th Amendment
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
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.
Lost Cause Myth
Lincoln Plan
Military Reconstruction Plan
Redeemers
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.
cattle drivers
cowboys
sharecroppers
Pinkerton Guards
To prevent African Americans from voting, states enacted Black codes requiring __________, which voters paid a fee to vote.
literacy test
poll tax
grandfather clause
tariff
In the movie Far and Away, what character helps Joseph and Shannon find a job and home in Boston?
Molly Kay
Thomas Crown
Mike Kelly
Daniel Christie
The killing of what animal brought an end to Native American life in the West much faster than anyone anticipated.
cattle
wolves
elk
buffalo
Match the invention/business with its inventor or entrepreneur.
George Pullman
sleeping car for trains
automobile
camera
steel
Match the invention/business with its inventor or entrepreneur.
George Eastman
stove to produce steel
oil
camera
flour
Match the invention/business with its inventor or entrepreneur.
Philip Armour
Hair products for African American women
steel
oil
meat packaging
What political party gained control of the South after the Compromise of 1877?
Southern Democrats known as the Redeemers
Moderate Republicans called Radical Republicans
Socialist Democrats
Communists
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.
Interstate Commerce Act
Dawes Act
Homestead Act
Pacific Railway Act
