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VUS. 8 Review

Total questions: 22

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What compromise ended Reconstruction?

a)

Compromise of 1777

b)

Compromise of 1850

c)

Compromise of 1877

d)

Compromise of 1900

2.

After Reconstruction ended with the Compromise of 1877, many Southern states passed ______________ laws forcing separation of the races in public places.

a)

Plessy v. Ferguson

b)

Jim Crow

c)

Separation

d)

Great Migration

3.

In which court case did the Supreme Court rule that "separate but equal" did not violate the 14th amendment, upholding the "Jim Crow" Laws?

a)

Marbury v. Madison

b)

McCulloch v. Maryland

c)

Gibbons v. Ogden

d)

Plessy v. Ferguson

4.

During the early 20th century, African Americans began the ______________ to Northern cities in search of jobs and to escape poverty and discrimination in the South.

a)

Great Migration

b)

Manifest Destiny

c)

Industrialization

d)

African American Migration

5.

Who led an "anti-lynching" campaign and called on the federal government to take action in preventing lynchings?

a)

Ida Tarbell

b)

Ida B. Wells

c)

Booker T. Washington

d)

W.E.B. DuBois

6.

Who believed the way to equality for African Americans was through vocational education and economic success?

a)

W.E.B. DuBois

b)

Booker T. Washington

c)

Ida B. Wells

d)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

7.

Who believed that education was meaningless without equality and helped create the NAACP?

a)

W.E.B. DuBois

b)

Booker T. Washington

c)

Ida B. Wells

d)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

8.

What Act gave Americans 160 acres of land if they moved out west and lived on that land for 5 years?

a)

Westward Act

b)

Homestead Act

c)

Manifest Destiny Act

d)

Pacific Railway Act

9.

Who had a monopoly over the steel industry?

a)

John D. Rockefeller

b)

J.P. Morgan

c)

Cornelius Vanderbilt

d)

Andrew Carnegie

10.

Who had a monopoly over the banking and finance industry?

a)

John D. Rockefeller

b)

J.P. Morgan

c)

Cornelius Vanderbilt

d)

Andrew Carnegie

11.

Who had a monopoly over the railroad industry?

a)

John D. Rockefeller

b)

J.P. Morgan

c)

Cornelius Vanderbilt

d)

Andrew Carnegie

12.

Who had a monopoly over the oil industry?

a)

John D. Rockefeller

b)

J.P. Morgan

c)

Cornelius Vanderbilt

d)

Andrew Carnegie

13.

Who invented the light bulb?

a)

Alexander Graham Bell

b)

Thomas Edison

c)

The Wright Brothers

d)

Henry Ford

14.

Who invented the airplane?

a)

Alexander Graham Bell

b)

Thomas Edison

c)

The Wright Brothers

d)

Henry Ford

15.

Who invented the telephone?

a)

Alexander Graham Bell

b)

Thomas Edison

c)

The Wright Brothers

d)

Henry Ford

16.

Who invented the assembly line?

a)

Alexander Graham Bell

b)

Thomas Edison

c)

The Wright Brothers

d)

Henry Ford

17.

Prior to 1871, where did immigrants come from?

a)

Northern and Western Europe

b)

Southern and Eastern Europe

c)

Asia

d)

Latin America

18.

After 1871, where did immigrants come from?

a)

Northern and Western Europe

b)

Southern and Eastern Europe

c)

Asia

d)

Latin America

19.

Which immigrants came through Ellis Island?

a)

European Immigrants

b)

Asian Immigrants

20.

Which immigrants came through Angel Island?

a)

European Immigrants

b)

Asian Immigrants

21.

Which group of immigrants worked on the Transcontinental Railroad?

a)

Japanese

b)

Chinese

c)

German

d)

Irish

22.

Who wrote "History of the Standard Oil Company?"

a)

Ida Tarbell

b)

Upton Sinclair

c)

Lincoln Steffens

d)

Harriet Beecher Stowe