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WorksheetsGilded Age and Progressive Era
Total questions: 75
Worksheet time: 47mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
This person invented the phonograph, audio recorder, battery, and electric lightbulb.
a)
Thomas Edison
b)
Nicolai Tesla
c)
Alexander Graham Bell
d)
Andrew Carnegie
2.
This man controlled the steel industry during the Gilded Age
a)
Andrew Carnegie
b)
John D Rockefeller
c)
JP Morgan
d)
Cornelius Vanderbilt
3.
This man owned Standard Oil and controlled most of the oil industry during the Gilded Age
a)
Andrew Carnegie
b)
Cornelius Vanderbilt
c)
John D Rockefeller
d)
JP Morgan
4.
This man gained his wealth and power from banking and finances during the Gilded Age
a)
John D Rockefeller
b)
Andrew Carnegie
c)
JP Morgan
d)
Cornelius Vanderbilt
5.
This is another word for monopoly
a)
Trust
b)
Corporation
c)
Merger
d)
Subsidiary
6.
This type of monopoly involves companies buying all of the similar companies (Standard Oil)
a)
Horizontal Integration
b)
Vertical Integration
7.
This type of monopoly involves buying each step of the production process (Carnegie Steel)
a)
Vertical Integration
b)
Horizontal Integration
8.
This is a term for when one company controls the majority of an industry
a)
Monopoly
b)
Merger
c)
Corporation
d)
Company
9.
____________ is a negative term to describe the great industrialists of the Gilded Age and __________ is a positive term to describe them.
a)
Robber Barons, Captains of Industry
b)
Captains of Industry, Robber Barons
10.
________________ is the term used to describe the wealthy that used ruthless business practices.
a)
Industrial Giants
b)
Captains of Industry
c)
Robber Barons
d)
Union Leaders
11.
Carnegie, Rockefeller or Morgan: Was an oil tycoon
a)
Carnegie
b)
Morgan
c)
Rockefeller
12.
What amendment provided suffrage for women (1920)?
a)
16th
b)
17th
c)
18th
d)
19th
13.
Who wrote the expose piece of literature that revealed the extensive corrupt monopolistic business practices of Standard Oil?
a)
Ida Tarbell
b)
Lewis Hines
c)
Jacob Riis
d)
Upton Sinclair
14.
Whose book led to the direct passage of the Meat Inspection Act and indirect of the Pure Food and Drug Acts?
a)
Jacob Riis
b)
Lewis Hines
c)
Ida Tarbell
d)
Upton Sinclair
15.
What anti monopoly law made all"combinations, contracts, and conspiracies" that restrained free trade illegal (1890)?
a)
Interstate Commerce Act
b)
Sherman Antitrust Act
c)
Clayton Antitrust Act
d)
Keller-Cefauver Act
16.
Which Progressive President used Big Stick Diplomacy and was known as a Trust buster?
a)
Teddy Roosevelt
b)
Taft
c)
Woodrow Wilson
d)
Luke Skywalker
17.
Which of the following is an initiative?
a)
People have the right to remove a politician from office
b)
People have the right to choose who will run for President
c)
People have the right to propose a new law
d)
People have the right to veto or accept a law passed by the government
18.
Key Reforms of the Progressive Era
· Initiative
· Referendum
· Recall
· Direct Primary
· 17th Amendment
How did the reforms listed above impact America?
· Initiative
· Referendum
· Recall
· Direct Primary
· 17th Amendment
How did the reforms listed above impact America?
a)
A system of separate schools for new immigrants
b)
They gave citizens a greater voice in the democratic process of government
c)
More sources of revenue and taxes in state governments.
d)
They successfully brought economic relief to the urban working class
19.
Writers that dig up the bad things going on in society
a)
Suffragists
b)
Muckrakers
c)
Students
d)
Chaffinators
20.
Banned people from making, drinking or selling alcohol
a)
17th Amendment
b)
18th Amendment
c)
19th Amendment
d)
21st Amendment
21.
1906- Wrote The Jungle which exposed the conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry. (Helped pass the Pure Food and Drug Act)
a)
Upton Sinclair
b)
Lincoln Steffens
c)
Jacob Riis
d)
Frank Norris
22.
17th Amendment-
a)
Banned sale, distribution and manufacture of alcohol
b)
required direct election of US Senators
c)
established the Income Tax
d)
Gave women suffrage rights
23.
This organization helps fight to end discrimination against different races
a)
NSA
b)
WCTU
c)
NAACP
d)
RESPECT
24.
Campaign to stop abuse in the homes by urging people and the government to stop alcoholism.
a)
Women Suffrage
b)
Temperance Movement
c)
Alcoholics Anonymous
d)
Fair Weather Fan
25.
The founder of the NAACP who encouraged African Americans to fight to end segregation
a)
Booker T. Washington
b)
George Washington Carver
c)
WEB Dubois
d)
Upton Sinclair
26.
The ability to remove corrupt government officials from office
a)
Referendum
b)
Initiative
c)
Recall
d)
Primary
27.
This was created to allow women to vote nationally
a)
17th Amendment
b)
18th Amendment
c)
19th Amendment
d)
21st Amendment
28.
Law that requires company to properly label food and medicines
a)
Medicine Man
b)
Food Amendment
c)
Label Lemons
d)
Pure Food and Drug Act
29.
To preserve water, trees, plants, and other natural resources
a)
Precipitation
b)
Confurion
c)
Conservation
d)
Infusion
30.
Who was the person who founded the settlement house (Hull House) for the Assimilation and Americanization of the immigrant poor?
a)
Elixabeth Cady Stanton
b)
Jane Addams
c)
Susan B. Anthony
d)
Belle Starr
31.
What was the name given to Roosevelt's plan to keep the wealthy from taking advantage of the poor?
a)
Circle Deal
b)
Square Deal
c)
New Deal
d)
Roosevelt Deal
32.
This was the principle that guided Roosevelt’s efforts to organize water projects to transform dry wilderness areas into agricultural areas.
a)
Conversation
b)
Conservation
c)
Transduction
d)
Convection
33.
This is what Roosevelt promised that the common people would receive.
a)
Square Deal
b)
New Deal
c)
Done Deal
d)
Fair Deal
34.
What is the Panama Canal?
a)
a northwest passage through Canada
b)
a waterway through northern Egypt
c)
A waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through Panama
d)
A river that runs through Panama
35.
What term describes building an empire by conquering other nations?
a)
Isolationism
b)
Repubicanism
c)
Militarism
d)
Imperialism
36.
What was the United States warship called that exploded killing over 200 American sailors?
a)
U S Maine
b)
USS Maine
c)
USS Maybe
d)
US Maritime
37.
Yellow Journalism is....
a)
The Loudoun Sun Times
b)
Exaggerated News Reports
c)
Yellow Paper Reports
d)
Nonfiction News Reports
38.
What did the Roosevelt Corollary add to?
a)
The Phillippines
b)
Monroe Doctrine
c)
Roosevelt Doctrine
d)
President Monroe's wish list
39.
The Roosevelt Corollary asserted that European nations must...
a)
Must get involved in the Americas
b)
Not get involved in the Americas
c)
Must get involved in Cuba
d)
Must build a canal.
40.
Forcing other nations to do as Roosevelt wanted was called...
a)
Big Gun Diplomacy
b)
Big Roosevelt Diplomacy
c)
Big Stick Policy
d)
Big Stick Score
41.
What was built as a result of the Big Stick Policy?
a)
The Panama Canal
b)
The Panama Bridge
c)
The Colombian Canal
d)
The Panama Path
42.
What countries did Roosevelt want to keep out of the Americas?
a)
Canada
b)
Portugal
c)
European nations
d)
Guam
43.
What was the reason for building the Panama Canal?
a)
To help ships travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean faster
b)
To allow soldiers to travel by sea
c)
To create an easier way for the USS Maine to reach Cuba
d)
To help immigrants get to America
44.
Why did the U.S build the Panama Canal?
a)
to reduce travel time
b)
to speed up trade
c)
to protect from invaders
d)
for fishing
45.
Where is Ellis Island located?
a)
Pacific Ocean
b)
South of Florida
c)
New York City Harbor
d)
Washington D.C.
46.
The Great Migration caused a(n) ____________ of African Americans who left their homes and farms in the South.
a)
exodus
b)
agents
c)
ravaged
d)
quota
47.
Which group of immigrants came to the United States and settled mostly along the EAST coast?
a)
European
b)
Asian
c)
African
d)
Indian
48.
Which group of immigrants came and settled mostly along the WEST coast?
a)
European
b)
Asian
c)
African
d)
Indian
49.
Where was Angel Island located?
a)
San Antonio, Texas
b)
New York, New York
c)
San Francisco, California
d)
Los Angeles, California
50.
Where was Ellis Island located?
a)
San Antonio, Texas
b)
New York, New York
c)
San Francisco, California
d)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
51.
Which groups of immigrants were the first to come to Ellis Island?
a)
Irish and German
b)
Italian and Portugese
c)
Russian and Irish
d)
Chinese and Japanese
52.
Immigrants coming to live in New York would have most likely found work where?
a)
In a factory
b)
On a farm
c)
As a cattle driver
d)
On the railroad
53.
Immigrants who came into the Untied States through Angel Island found most of their work where?
a)
The building of the Transcontinental Railroad
b)
In factories
c)
On farms
d)
As cattle drivers
54.
In 1868, the US government signed a treaty with the Lakota Indian tribe granting them land in what present-day state?
a)
North Dakota
b)
South Dakota
c)
Kansas
d)
Nebraska
55.
What was discovered in those Lakota lands in South Dakota a few years after the treaty?
a)
oil
b)
copper
c)
silver
d)
gold
56.
As gold prospectors flocked to the Black Hills of South Dakota, what did the US government do?
a)
Send in the army to protect the lands for the Lakota and kick out the prospectors.
b)
Nothing. It was the lands of the Lakota now. They could protect it.
c)
They sent in their army to check out if gold was actually there, then try to buy the land.
57.
Which battle occurred in 1876 in which the Sioux defeated Custer's 7th Cavalry?
a)
The Little Bighorn
b)
Wounded Knee
c)
The Black Hills
d)
Sitting Bull
58.
Which was the last major battle between the U.S. Army and American Indians?
a)
Wounded Knee
b)
The Little Bighorn
c)
Bull Run
d)
Falling Timbers
59.
Which individual was on the winning side of the Battle of the Little Bighorn?
a)
Sitting Bull
b)
George Custer
c)
Chief Joseph
d)
Jim Thorpe
60.
What supreme court case ruled that "separate but equal" facilities did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment?
a)
Plessy v. Ferguson
b)
Brown v. Board of Education
c)
Marbury v. Madison
d)
Dred Scott v. Sandford
61.
Who led the American Federation of Labor?
a)
Samuel Gompers
b)
Ida B. Wells
c)
Booker T. Washington
d)
W. E. B. DuBois
62.
Which president called his Progressive program the "Square Deal"?
a)
Theodore Roosevelt
b)
Woodrow Wilson
c)
Abraham Lincoln
d)
Herbert Hoover
63.
Which amendment provided for direct election of United States senators by the people?
a)
Fourteenth
b)
Nineteenth
c)
Seventeenth
d)
Thirteenth
64.
Which law made it illegal for businesses to set up monopolies?
a)
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
b)
Clayton Anti-Trust Act
c)
Nineteenth Amendment
d)
Seventeenth Amendment
65.
Group of works who collective bargain to get higher pay, more rights and better working conditions
a)
Soviet Union
b)
Labor Union
c)
Commune
d)
Trade Federation
66.
What industry was paralyzed by the Pullman Strike of 1894?
a)
Clothing
b)
Steel
c)
Railroads
d)
It was spread across several industries
67.
What does AFL stand for?
a)
American Fun Labor
b)
American Finance of Labor
c)
American Freedom of Labor
d)
American Federation of Labor
68.
Who did the AFL represent?
a)
trade and craft (skilled) workers
b)
business owners
c)
government workers
d)
teachers
69.
_______ is when workers refuse to work in order to force an employer to meet their demands.
a)
labor unions
b)
party
c)
strike
d)
sweatshop
70.
Knights of Labor, American Federation of Labor, and the Congress of Industrial Organization were examples of....
a)
Organized Crime
b)
Terrorist organizations
c)
Labor unions
71.
Workers who built the railroads were mainly
a)
homesteaders and cowboys
b)
Asian and Europeans
c)
Russian and Irish
d)
Mexican and Chinese
72.
The first railroad to cross the United States was the....
a)
Union Pacific Railroad
b)
Central Pacific Railroad
c)
Missouri Railroad
d)
Transcontinental Railroad
73.
Why was the transcontinental railroad beneficial to America?
a)
The railroad was built over mountains that were impassable in stagecoach.
b)
Railroads provided a faster, safer, and cheaper transportation.
c)
Railroads allowed People to bring their furniture to the Great Plains.
d)
Railroads crossed rivers which were difficult to cross earlier.
74.
How did the Transcontinental impact the natural environment?
a)
the trained ripped up the sod on the plains
b)
mining for coal, pollution, and blasting through mountains impacted the environment.
c)
mining for gold, building large trestles, and avalanches impacted the environment
d)
shipping crops East and fencing off farm land impacted the environment
75.
Plan that limited Japanese immigration, much like the Chinese Exclusion Act had ended it for the Chinese; but this never became law
a)
14 Points
b)
Laramie Treaty
c)
Gentlemen's Agreement
d)
Roosevelt Corollary
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