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Unit 6 Review

Total questions: 29

Worksheet time: 28mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Where did cattle drives end?

a)

at cow towns

b)

at boom towns

c)

at rail lines

d)

at ranches

2.

What was the Homestead Act?

a)

government gave 160 acres of free land to farmers

b)

government gave 160 acres of land to Native Americans

c)

government gave tools to help farmers bust through sod

d)

government gave 180 acres of free land to farmers

3.

What did Native Americans want?

a)

to be given good land so they could become prosperous farmers

b)

to be given more say in the gold found on their land

c)

to live freely on their land

d)

the passage of the Dawes Act

4.

Fill in the missing blank regarding the end of boomtowns: merchants arrived, ________________, government replaced vigilantes.

a)

Native Americans took back their lands

b)

all of the ore was extracted from the mines

c)

cattle took over available land

d)

urbanization increases

5.

What is a major difference between the 10% Plan and Wade-Davis Bill

a)

The Wade-Davis Bill included an amnesty plan, while Lincoln’s did not.

b)

The Wade-Davis Bill required 50% of the people in the state to swear loyalty, while Lincoln’s plan only required 10%.

c)

Lincoln’s plan required the southern states to ban slavery, while The Wade-Davis bill did not.

d)

The Wade-Davis Bill required 10% of the people in the state to swear loyalty, while Lincoln's plan required 50%.

6.

This group was created to help free African Americans after the Civil War.

a)

The Freedmen's Association

b)

The Freedmen's Bureau

c)

The Hull House

d)

The Sharecropping Bureau

7.

What did Jim Crow laws do?

a)

They segregated Native Americans and whites in all aspects of life.

b)

Blacks and whites could live freely among each other.

c)

Blacks and whites needed to be segregated in all aspects of life.

d)

Protected voting rights for African Americans.

8.

What did the Supreme Court rule in Plessy v. Ferguson?

a)

Facilities could be segregated as long as they were equal.

b)

Facilities could not be segregated even if they were equal.

c)

Facilities could be segregated regardless of equality.

d)

Facilities had to require mixed services.

9.

Which of the following was likely Edison's most powerful creation?

a)

light bulb

b)

phonograph

c)

motion picture camera

d)

invention factory

10.

What area did most "new" immigrants come from in the late 1800s to early 1900s?

a)

Southern and Eastern Europe

b)

Northern and Western Europe

c)

Mexico and Central America

d)

Asia and Russia

11.

Which of the following contributed to the growth of cities between 1860 and 1890? Check all that apply:

a)

new technology such as electricity and steel

b)

movement of farmers looking for industrial jobs

c)

rise of department stores, museums, and sports

d)

resources for the poor like settlement houses and tenements

12.

Why was steel so valuable after the Civil War?

a)

iron was no longer available

b)

Carnegie made a monopoly out of it

c)

it could be made stronger and cheaper than iron

d)

it was used as the new currency

13.

What did members of the temperance movement want?

a)

to ban alcohol

b)

to ban segregation

c)

to win the right for women to vote

d)

to help immigrants assimilate

14.

Which of the following were parts of the Gentlemen's Agreement? Check all that apply:

a)

Japan stopped sending workers to the U.S.

b)

U.S. stopped trading with Japan

c)

California desegregated Japanese and white schools

d)

Japan would send no more than 1,000 immigrants to the U.S. a year

15.

Which of the following people fought against lynching?

a)

Booker T. Washington

b)

Ida B. Wells

c)

Jane Addams

d)

W.E.B. Du Bois

16.

Why were most national parks located in the West?

a)

Roosevelt spent most of his time in this region.

b)

The West had more space and less urbanization.

c)

Voters wanted them kept in the West.

d)

It was the only area with natural resources.

17.

What was the white reaction to the depression in the late 1800s?

a)

workers strikes

b)

lynchings

c)

mob violence

d)

stock market crash

18.

This was the source of gold and silver in Nevada.

a)

San Francisco

b)

Comstock Lode

c)

Black Hills

d)

Las Vegas

19.

He led attacks with Crazy Horse to fend off their lands from the miners.

a)

Chief Joseph

b)

Sitting Bull

c)

Sitting Horse

d)

Chief Bull

20.

This was a Mexican cowboy.

a)

barrio

b)

mutualist

c)

vaquero

d)

sombrero

21.

This is a person who sets up new business to make a profit.

a)

entreprenuer

b)

corporation

c)

trustbuster

d)

monopolist

22.

This is a practice in which unions negotiate with management for workers as a group.

a)

mutual negotiation

b)

collective bargaining

c)

labor union

d)

worker's strike

23.

This is a process that allows voters to put a bill before a state legislature.

a)

recall

b)

referendum

c)

intiative

d)

primary

24.

This is a vote that results in the expulsion of an elected official from office.

a)

impeachment

b)

recall

c)

referendum

d)

expulsion

25.

An educator who promoted patient progress for African Americans.

a)

W.E.B. Du Bois

b)

Booker T. Washington

c)

Alice Paul

d)

Ida B. Wells

26.

Forceful suffragist who met with President Woodrow Wilson.

a)

Carrie Chapman Catt

b)

Alice Paul

c)

Florence Kelly

d)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

27.

Which of the following is true about stockholders?

a)

Too many of them results in a bad trust

b)

They can lose only the money they have invested in a company.

c)

They hurt business by taking unfair deals from banks.

d)

If the business fails, stockholders will lose everything they own.

28.

What did the Interstate Commerce Act and the Sherman Antitrust Act attempt to do?

a)

Limit the power of labor unions.

b)

Limit the power of trusts.

c)

Limit the power of the spoils system.

d)

Limit the power of women's suffrage.

29.

Who thought African Americans should fight discrimination?

a)

Ida B. Wells

b)

W.E.B. Du Bois

c)

Booker T. Washington

d)

Jane Addams