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Unit 6 Review

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 24mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What does "Gilded" mean when we talk about the Gilded Age?

a)

Nice on the outside, ugly on the inside

b)

Ugly on the outside, nice on the inside

2.

What region of the US had the greatest Urban Growth during the Gilded Age? (Late 1800s)

a)

Northeast

b)

Northwest

c)

Southeast

d)

Southwest

3.

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

4.

Though jobs were plentiful, they didn't pay well. This caused what change in women and children's lives in the nineteenth century?

a)

Women and children had to become wage earners

b)

Women and children became business owners

c)

Women and children became more educated

d)

Women and children became leaders of organized labor

5.

Americans who grew angry and resentful at the increased Immigrant migration into the country, especially those from Southern and Eastern Europe

a)

Nativists

b)

Populists

c)

Philanthropists

d)

Social Workers

6.

Changing their names, cutting their hair, forcing them to adopt Christianity, requiring them to learn English, etc. These are all examples of what pushed on many Immigrants, but especially the Indians (Native Americans)?

a)

Assimilation

b)

Nativism

c)

Protectionism

d)

Temperance

7.
The photo demonstrates one of the problems with
a)
overcrowding urban tenements.
b)
labor union activism in urban areas.
c)
the overproduction of consumer goods.
d)
the growth of political machines.
8.
What gave 160 acres to people willing to settle the plains?
a)
Dawes Act
b)
National Grange
c)
Farmers' Alliances
d)
Homestead Act
9.
19th century Chinese immigrants are known for what?
a)
Work in building the Transcontinental Railroad
b)
Work in New York factories
c)
Contributions to the steel industry
d)
Contributions to John D. Rockefeller
10.
Which laws were passed to discriminate against African Americans?
a)
18th Amendment
b)
Temperance laws
c)
Jim Crow laws
d)
14th Amendment
11.
The 19th Amendment dealt with what?
a)
Prohibition of alcohol
b)
Women’s right to vote
c)
Naturalization laws
d)
Abolition of slavery
12.
Which movement provided workplace reforms?
a)
Suffrage movement
b)
Temperance movement
c)
Westward expansion
d)
Progressive movement
13.
Which of the following believed equality could be achieved through vocational education and accepted social segregation?
a)
W.E.B. DuBois
b)
Frederick Douglass
c)
Booker T. Washington
d)
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
14.
John D. Rockefeller was a captain of which industry?
a)
Oil
b)
Banking
c)
Steel
d)
Automobile
15.
When was the Progressive Era?
a)
Antebellum
b)
1865-1877
c)
1900-1920
d)
1933-1945
16.
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
17.
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
18.
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
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.
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
22.
When the people run businesses -- NOT government
a)
Capitalism
b)
Socialism
23.
A time period concerned with addressing national problems, especially related to the growth of industry
a)
Gilded Age
b)
Progressive Era
c)
Age of Imperialism
d)
Roaring 20s
24.
The Federal Income Tax was the _______ Amendment
a)
16th
b)
17th
c)
18th
d)
19th
25.
Which president created the National Park System?
a)
McKinley
b)
T. Roosevelt
c)
Taft
d)
Wilson