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APUSH Period 6 Review

Total questions: 45

Worksheet time: 24mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who of the following represented the American notion that through hard work, even a poor immigrant could become tremendously successful?

a)

Andrew Carnegie

b)

John D. Rockefeller

c)

Jay Cooke

d)

Thomas Edison

2.

As American industry expanded in the late nineteenth century, its energy source shifted from

a)

electric to steam

b)

water to coal

c)

coal to iron

d)

steam to water

3.

Why did so few African American men hold factory jobs in the US in 1890?

a)

there were almost no factories in the South, where the majority of African Americans lived at that time

b)

white-dominated labor unions generally refused to allow blacks to join and seek industrial employment

c)

factory owners could satisfy labor needs with immigrant workers, so they rejected most black applicants

d)

black workers intensely disliked factory work and preferred agricultural or casual urban labor

4.

During the 1800s, an adult male immigrant from which of the following locations would most likely be a skilled worker?

a)

Poland

b)

Wales

c)

Italy

d)

Greece

5.
During the Gilded age, workers came together under ___________________________ to work for better pay, working conditions, and less hours.
a)
Philanthropy
b)
Labor Unions
c)
Political Bosses
d)
Credit Unions
6.
William Graham Sumner, a researcher during the Gilded Age,  believed that government programs to help the poor were useless because people had a certain place that could not be changed.  This philosophy was called...
a)
Evolution
b)
Monetary Policy
c)
Social Darwinism
d)
Welfare Capitalism
7.
Based on your knowledge of the Industrial Revolution in the United States, what statement is this cartoon making?
a)
The federal government was placing too many restrictions and regulations on business owners.
b)
The oil industry is thriving due to a healthy working relationship with the federal government.
c)
The owner of Standard Oil has too much power and influence over the federal government.
d)
Emissions from oil refineries are polluting the air and harming the environment.
8.
Which of these best describes life in a turn of the century tenement?
a)
Very crowded
b)
Spreading sickness and disease
c)
No windows, heat, or plumbing
d)
All of the above
9.
What did the steelworkers do when Henry Clay Frick tried to bring in replacement workers?
a)
Barricaded the mill
b)
Opened their own factory in Ohio
c)
Pleaded to Andrew Carnegie
d)
Threw a dynamite bomb at police
10.
The steel industry owed much to the inventive genius of
a)
Jay Gould
b)
Henry Bessemer
c)
J.P. Morgan
d)
Thomas Edison
11.

This movement advocated for a return to traditional ways of life and challenged white dominance in society.

a)

Ghost Dance Movement

b)

Temperance Movement

c)

The Pullman Strike

d)

The People's Party

12.

The innovation of this transportation help open up the national market

a)
b)
c)
d)
13.
Men such as Andrew Carnegie believed in giving money to libraries, musuems and schools to help benefit people who wanted to move up in the social ladder. 
a)
geopolitical
b)
political bosses
c)
Social Darwinism
d)
Gospel of Wealth
14.

Due to the corruption of the railroads companies, the U.S. government created this act to regulate railroad companies to be reasonable in prices.

a)

Interstate Commerce Act

b)

Dawes Act

c)

Transcontinental Act

d)

Laissez Faire Act

15.

What New York politician ran a political machine in New York City beginning in 1869, during the Gilded Age, that was incredibly corrupt? For example, a projected cost of $250,000 for a courthouse turned in to $13,000,000 because of kickbacks and bribes.

a)

Daley

b)

Grant

c)

Tilden

d)

Tweed

16.
What was a city government marked by corruption, bribery, and Kickbacks (common during the Gilded Age) called?
a)
credit mobilier
b)
political machine
c)
corrected democracy
d)
electoral politics
17.

Congressional action taken in 1890, during the Gilded Age, that made "contracts, conspiracies, and combinations" that restrained free trade illegal. This was done to stop the abusive practices of organized trusts in oil, sugar, tobacco, etc.

a)

Sherman Antitrust Act

b)

Celler-Kefauver Act

c)

Clayton Antitrust Act

d)

Interstate Commerce Act

18.
What did the NAACP focus on?
a)
child labor
b)
equal rights
c)
conservation
d)
protection of animals
19.

What image below best explains suffrage?

a)
b)
c)
d)
20.
What was the time period called that suggested that the U.S. appeared to be fine, but beneath the surface there was corruption and serious problems?
a)
False America
b)
Gilded Age
c)
Teasing Times
d)
Erroneous Era
21.
What is the name given to the belief that the United States had the right and duty to expand across the North American continent?
a)
Manifest destiny 
b)
Monroe Doctrine 
c)
Great Awakening 
d)
Louisiana Purchase
22.
Which of the following explains the major drawback of mining?
a)
mining became useless as new technology replaced natural resources
b)
mining proved to be unprofitable
c)
mining was destructive to the natural environment
d)
mining did not provide any jobs for local residents
23.
What was the effect of the Transcontinental Railroad?
a)
Became a more efficient form of transportation for settlers
b)
Increased trade between the east and west and boosted the economy
c)
Polluted the air and the natural environment
d)
All of the above
24.
What invention helped prevent cattle from escaping?
a)
bean picker
b)
barbed wire
c)
steel plow
d)
windmills 
25.

What happened at Sand Creek in 1864?

a)

The Navajo started their "Long Walk."

b)

The US Army killed many Native Americans.

c)

Native Americans gave up their fight for lands.

d)

Native Americans killed many settlers.

26.

Where were General George Custer and his men killed?

a)

Little Bighorn

b)

Crazy Horse

c)

Sand Creek

d)

Wounded Knee

27.
How did the passage of the Dawes Act impact Native Americans? 
a)
It started a series of Indian Wars with massive casualties on the Great Plains
b)
It attempted to assimilate them into mainstream culture by allocating lands to individual Indians.
c)
Retention of original tribal territory occurred through a peace treaty with the U.S. Army.
d)
It supported their existing cultural tribal traditions and customs
28.

Name the tribe of Sitting Bull that fought against Western settlers and later started the Ghost Dance Tradition

a)

Cheyenne

b)

Sioux

c)

Apache

d)

Nez Perce

29.

Perfected the incandescent light bulb

a)

Edwin L. Drake

b)

Henry Bessemer

c)

Thomas Alva Edison

d)

Alexander Graham Bell

30.

Which of the following did Social Darwinism discourage?

a)

hard work

b)

industrialization

c)

government regulation

d)

accumulation of wealth

31.

Why were scabs unpopular with striking workers during the late 1800s?

a)

They were socialists.

b)

They were federal troops.

c)

They were part of management.

d)

They were workers used to break strikes.

32.

Millionaire tycoon who made his riches in the steel industry

a)

Andrew Carnegie

b)

J.D. Rockefeller

c)

J.P. Morgan

d)

Cornelius Vanderbilt

33.

Millionaire tycoon who made his riches in the railroad industry

a)

Andrew Carnegie

b)

J.D. Rockefeller

c)

J.P. Morgan

d)

Cornelius Vanderbilt

34.

Millionaire tycoon who made his riches in the finance industry

a)

Andrew Carnegie

b)

J.D. Rockefeller

c)

J.P. Morgan

d)

Cornelius Vanderbilt

35.

Millionaire tycoon who made his riches in the oil industry

a)

Andrew Carnegie

b)

J.D. Rockefeller

c)

J.P. Morgan

d)

Cornelius Vanderbilt

36.

Why did President Lincoln and Congress wish to provide inexpensive homesteads to the public?

a)

For jobs

b)

To visit their families

c)

To help expand the country

d)

For the climate change

37.

What is the name of the place that was the gateway for over 12 million immigrants to the U.S. as the United States' busiest immigrant inspection station? It's located in New York.

a)

Hull House

b)

Ellis Island

c)

Pullman House

d)

Staten Island

38.

What is the name of this machine that made large productions of steel and was inexpensive?

a)

Steel

b)

Cotton Gin

c)

Steel Maker

d)

Bessemer Process

39.

Who invented the telephone?

a)

Alexander Hamilton

b)

Alexander Graham Bell

c)

Alexander Edison

d)

Alexander Wright

40.

Who invented the first plane?

a)

Bessemer Brothers

b)

Rockefeller Brothers

c)

Right Brothers

d)

Wright Brothers

41.
Areas of land set aside for Native Americans
a)
nomadic
b)
sodbusters
c)
homestead
d)
reservations
42.
A route that connected the Atlantic and Pacific coasts
a)
nomadic
b)
transcontinental
c)
sooners
d)
vaqueros
43.
Eager settlers who claimed the best land in Oklahoma
a)
nomadic
b)
transcontinental
c)
sooners
d)
vaqueros
44.

Carnegie made a fortune by mastering the concept of

a)

philanthropy

b)

vertical integration

c)

horizontal integration

d)

plausible deniability

45.

Rockefeller made a fortune by utilizing

a)

vertical integration

b)

horizontal integration

c)

graft

d)

strikes

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