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STAAR Day 2 Notes (Gilded-Progressive)

Total questions: 33

Worksheet time: 18mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What does philanthropy mean?

a)

generously donating money to good causes

b)

future generations; your kid's kids

c)

being wealthy and leaving all of your money to 1 son

d)

a place where different nationalities and religions are mixed together

2.

What is this a picture of?

a)

tenements

b)

melting pot

c)

skyscrapers

d)

plantations

3.

Who owned Standard Oil and is considered the wealthiest American of all time?

a)

John D. Rockefeller

b)

Andrew Carnegie

c)

Samuel Gompers

d)

JP Morgan

4.

A person who has become rich through ruthless and unscrupulous business practices such as Vanderbilt and Carnegie was called a ?

a)

Robber Baron

b)

Slum Lord

c)

Proprietor

d)

Land Lord

5.

Which word means a complete ownership or control of the entire supply of goods or a service in a certain market?

a)

monopoly

b)

industry

c)

colony

d)

philanthropy

6.

A Scottish immigrant who led the enormous expansion of the steel industry.

a)

Andrew Carnegie

b)

John D. Rockefeller

c)

J.P. Morgan

d)

Cornelius Vanderbilt

7.

Which island did European immigrants register to live in in the U.S.?

a)

Ellis

b)

Angel

c)

Galveston

d)

Long

8.

This picture represents the idea of ?

a)

Nativism

b)

Melting Pot

c)

Reservations

d)

Globalism

9.

During the Gilded Age, more people were moving to the ___________ than ever before.

a)

cities

b)

farms

10.

Overcrowding and pollution were caused primarily by what?

a)

Urbanization

b)

Industrialization

c)

Nativism

d)

Assimilation

11.

Declining wages and a rise unemployment on the west coast led to what piece of legislation?

a)

Chinese Exclusion Act

b)

Dawes Act

c)

Homestead Act

d)

Pendleton Act of 1883

12.

What was the main source of power in big city governments during the Gilded Age?

a)

Political Machines

b)

Industrial Capitalists

c)

Robber Barons

d)

Labor Leaders

13.

Agreement between the U.S. and Japan to stop separating Japanese Students. Japan was going to decrease emigration.

a)

Chinese Exclusion Act

b)

Gentlemen's Agreement

c)

Dawes Act

14.
Which law was passed as a result of muckraking literature of Upton Sinclair?
a)
Meat Inspection Act
b)
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
c)
Federal Reserve Act
d)
Interstate Commerce Act
15.
Which goal, set a a women's convention in Seneca Falls in 1848, was finally achieved during the Progressive Era?
a)
passage of the Food and Drug Act
b)
creation of the Interstate Commerce Commission
c)
adoption of a graduated income tax
d)
ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment
16.
Writers that dig up the bad things going on in society
a)
Suffragists
b)
Muckrakers
c)
Students
d)
Chaffinators
17.
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
18.
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
19.
The ability to remove corrupt government officials from office
a)
Referendum
b)
Initiative
c)
Recall
d)
Primary
20.
This was created to allow women to vote nationally
a)
17th Amendment
b)
18th Amendment
c)
19th Amendment
d)
21st Amendment
21.
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
22.
The founder of the National Women’s Suffrage Association that helped lead congress to vote on woman’s suffrage
a)
Ida Tarbell
b)
Ida B. Wells
c)
Susan B. Anthony
d)
Francis Willard
23.
Banned people from making, drinking or selling alcohol
a)
17th Amendment
b)
18th Amendment
c)
19th Amendment
d)
21st Amendment
24.
Made it illegal to create trusts and monopolies
a)
Sherman Antitrust Act
b)
Sherman Antimonopoly Act
c)
Sherman Shortly Act
d)
Sherman No Business Act
25.
A way for people to vote directly on a proposed new law
a)
Recall
b)
Referendum
c)
Initiative
d)
Primary
26.
The founder of the Tuskegee Institute and head of the African Americans community
a)
Booker T. Washington
b)
George Washington Carver
c)
W.E.B Dubois
d)
Upton Sinclair
27.
A process that allows voters to put a bill before a state legislature.
a)
Reall
b)
Referendum
c)
Initiative
d)
Primary
28.
Allowed alcohol by retracting the 18th Amendment
a)
17th Amendment
b)
18th Amendment
c)
19th Amendment
d)
21st Amendment
29.
The banning of alcohol.
a)
Institution
b)
Referendum
c)
Principal
d)
Prohibition
30.

This allowed for the direct election of Senators

a)

15th Amendment

b)

16th Amendment

c)

17th Amendment

d)

18th Amendment

31.

Outlawed monopolies

a)

Interstate Commerce Act

b)

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

c)

Dawes Act

32.

Law that regulated the railroad. Fair prices

a)

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

b)

Interstate Commerce Act

c)

Dawes Act

33.

Organization that fought for equality for all and to end segregation

a)

Nativists

b)

SEC

c)

FDIC

d)

NAACP

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