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WorksheetsUnit 5: Reconstruction & Gilded Age - 8th Grade
Total questions: 37
Worksheet time: 25mins
This period during the 1870s to 1900 is known for the rise of railroads, big business, industrialization and social problems in the United States.
World War I
Progressive Era
Gilded age
Roaring Twenties
The innovation of this transportation help open up the national market?
boats
railroads
autombils
horse drawn carriages
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?
Upton Sinclair
Andrew Carnegie
Mark Twian
Henry George
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?
Upton Sinclair
Ida Tarbell
Ida Wells
Jacob Riis
Between 1860 and 1910, the U.S. population tripled due to:
The Baby Boom
Immigration
The Homestead Act
Better Healthcare
Name for entrepreneurs who use ruthless tactics to destroy competition or to keep wages low
Captain of Industry
Robber Baron
Philanthropist
Consolidator
What amendment abolished slavery?
13th
14th
15th
16th
The 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution...
Gave African Americans citizenship
Gave African Americans the right to vote
Freed the slaves
Gave landowners the right to sharecrop
The 15th Amendment of the United States Constitution...
Gave African Americans the right to own businesses
Freed the Slaves
Gave African Americans the right to vote
Forced African Americans back into slavery
Which of the following was NOT a goal of Reconstruction?
Reunite the North and the South
Rebuild the South
Develop the system of sharecropping
Determine what to do with African Americans
Who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln?
Nathan Bedford Forrest
John Wilkes Booth
Henry Clay
John Breckinridge
Which of the following was NOT a part of the Freedman's Bureau?
Helped reconnecting former slaves with their families
Helped provide education to former slaves
Helped feed former slaves
Forced African Americans to become sharecroppers
What problem did many farmers have under the sharecropping system?
They were forced to grow cash crops for sale instead of food to eat themselves.
They often were trapped in a cycle of debt because they had to pay most of what they grew back to the landowners
Many sharecroppers were forced to buy goods they needed on credit or with loans
All choices are true.
None of the choices are true.
Northerners who took advantage of the situation and went went south after the Civil War to make large profits from the destruction in the south were called...
Scalawags
Ku Klux Klan
Carpetbaggers
Sharecroppers
These were laws that attempted to segregate whites and former black slaves in the south. For example, they made it illegal for African Americans to live or work in certain areas and allowed whites to arrest blacks who were not working. Once arrested they would be forced to work for white landowners.
Freedman's Bureau
Reconstruction
Black Codes
Jim Crow Laws
Laws passed by southern states soon after Reconstruction ended (1888). These laws legalized and helped enforce the segregation whites and blacks to use separate facilities in the south.
Jim Crow Laws
Black Codes
Freedman's Bureau
Reconstruction
The process of rebuilding the South after the Civil War.
Reconstruction
Freedman's Bureau
Black Codes
Jim Crow Laws
The House of Representatives tried to get rid of President Andrew Johnson by doing what to him:
impeaching him
killing him
bribing him to leave
trying to get him out in the next election
Groups like the Ku Klux Klan that formed during Reconstruction helped freed slaves and worked to protect their rights.
True
False
All of the following resulted from the end of Reconstruction EXCEPT:
Ku Klux Klan is founded
Jim Crow laws were passed to segregate blacks from whites and place other limits on their rights.
Sharecropping becomes the dominant economy in the South
Blacks continued to enjoy increased freedoms and equality
The management had taken measures to ensure that no worker would steal any material or sneak off for a break so they had all entrances except for one locked up and it turned deadly.
Homestead Steel Mill Strike
Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire
Henry Clay Frick
Haymarket Riot
Gaining almost total control of an industry with no competitors is called:
A dividend
Vertical Integration
A Monopoly
Horizontal Integration
One reason John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and J. Pierpont Morgan were sometimes called Robber Barons was that they:
used ruthless business tactics against their competitors
stole money from the federal government
made unnecessarily risky investments
robed from the rich to give to the poor
Which of the following is MOST likely to happen if there is competition between several companies for your money?
The prices will be lower and the quality high because each company wants you to choose them to buy their products from.
The prices will be high because the companies know you only have a few choices
The prices will be lower and the quality will also be lower because they know that low prices are the only things that will get you to buy from them
The prices will be high but the quality will also be high because each company wants to provide the best product to you so you will buy from them instead of their competitors
Which best describes the living conditions of most immigrants during the Industrial Revolution?
Most immigrants lived in rural areas with few other people around
Most immigrants lived in cities in extremely crowded buildings
Most immigrants lived in single-family homes
Most immigrants lived in homeless shelters year-round
Which best describes the working conditions of most immigrants during the Industrial Revolution?
Most immigrants worked long hours in low-paying industrial jobs
Most immigrants worked as farmers in rural areas
Most immigrants worked as bookkeepers or other professional jobs
Most immigrants worked as tailors or other skilled jobs
The transfer from making things by hand and working on farms to using machine technology and factories is called:
Urbanization
Revolution
Industrialization
Civilization
People moving from the rural areas to cities is called...
Ruralization
Urbanization
Colonization
None of these
During the Gilded Age there was a notable increase in federal support for--
the growth of big business
involvement in foreign wars
the acquisition of foreign territories
increased temperance regulations
What act gave 160 acres to any family who would live on the land and farm it for 5 years?
The Homestead Promise
The Homestead Neighborhood
The Homestead Act of 1862
The Homestead farmland
Activists and journalist W.E.B. Du Bois started an organization to help blacks in America called
Freedman's Bureau
Gilds
NAACP
NAECP
What invention in the late 1700's kicked off the Industrial Revolution?
Cotton Gin
Steam Engine
Ironclad Warships
Tugboat
Which movement began because of political corruption?
Progressivism
Populism
Military Reconstruction
Jim Crow Segregation
