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Semester 1 Final Review II

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who invented the telephone?

a)

Robert J. Sprint

b)

Alexander Graham Bell

c)

Christopher Eugene Verizon

d)

Andre T. Truex

2.

Christopher Scholes invented the typewriter

a)

True

b)

False

3.

Which of the following did Thomas Edison invent?

a)

Phonograph

b)

Incandescent lightbulb

c)

Motion pictures

d)

All of these

4.

Who invented barbed wire?

a)

Joesph Glidden

b)

Samuel Colt

c)

John Wayne

d)

Woodrow Dolarhyde

5.

Which of the following was NOT a reason for processed and consumer goods for being cheaper and more available by the late 1800s?

a)

inventions and entrepreneurial skills

b)

improved importing techniques

c)

the country’s shift from an industrial to an agricultural society

d)

the long hours worked by many children in the country

6.

What is the goal of the labor union?

a)

organize unskilled workers

b)

increase the number of workers hired

c)

eliminate all immigration into the United States

d)

improve wages and working conditions for all workers

7.

Why did most immigrants arriving in the United States after 1880 settled in the cities?

a)

tenements were cheap and a great place to live

b)

they didn't speak English

c)

there was a lot of surplus housing

d)

the majority of jobs were located in the cities

8.

During the late 1800’s most “new” immigrants came from southern and eastern Europe.

a)

True

b)

False

9.

The main immigration processing station in San Francisco Bay Area was called Devils Island?

a)

True

b)

False

10.

The main immigration processing station on the East Coast was called Manhattan Island?

a)

True

b)

False

11.

Urbanization is a term that describes the growth of ...

a)

farming regions.

b)

migration from the city to the country.

c)

migration from the country to the city.

d)

rapid development of technology.

12.

Who won the Presidential race of 1896?

a)

Abe Lincoln

b)

Ben Franklin

c)

Martin Van Buren

d)

William McKinley

13.

Who was the populist candidate for the Presidency in1896?

a)

William Jennings Bryan

b)

Andrew Johnson

c)

Jefferson Davis

d)

Robert E. Lee

14.

Colonel George Armstrong Custer died during the Battle of Little Bighorn.

a)

True

b)

False

15.

George Armstrong Custer was a brilliant officer in the US army who graduated at the top of his class at West Point.

a)

True

b)

False

16.

Oliver Hudson Kelley founded the Grange (Patrons of Husbandry)?

a)

True

b)

False

17.

Capitalist how made his money in the steel industry

a)

Andrew Carnegie

b)

JP Morgan

c)

Cornelius Vanderbilt

d)

John Rockefeller

18.

Capitalist how made his money in the railroad industry

a)

Andrew Carnegie

b)

JP Morgan

c)

John D. Rockefeller

d)

Cornelius Vanderbilt

19.

Capitalist how made his money in the oil industry

a)

Cornelius Vanderbilt

b)

JP Morgan

c)

Andrew Carnegie

d)

John D. Rockefeller

20.

Boss Tweed was a corrupt politician who became head of Tammany Hall in New York

a)

True

b)

False

21.

Who was the socialist reformer who started the IWW?

a)

Gray Davis

b)

William Jennings Bryan

c)

Eugene Debs

d)

William Taft

22.

What was the major point of difference between Booker T. Washington and W. E.B. DuBois?

a)

the need for college education

b)

the need for progressive reforms

c)

the need for immediate equality for African Americans

d)

the significance of independence for Africa

23.

The principle of separate but equal facilities for blacks and whites was set down in Plessy v. Ferguson.

a)

True

b)

False

24.

President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation which declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."

a)

True

b)

False

25.

The Emancipation Proclamation was issued after the Harlem Renaissance took place.

a)

True

b)

False

26.

The Cotton Gin was invented after slavery had begun in the United States.

a)

True

b)

False

27.

The Cotton Gin was invented before Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.

a)

True

b)

False

28.

What were the laws requiring the separation of the races in schools, trains, parks, and other facilities called?

a)

grandfather clauses

b)

Jim Crow Laws

c)

sharecropper clauses

d)

Equal Rights Laws

29.

The Progressives would focus much of their attention on reforming all of the following except what?

a)

railroad rates

b)

African American rights

c)

tenement housing

d)

clean food

30.

How were populists and progressives alike?

a)

They feared the concentration of power in the hands of a wealthy few.

b)

They were college trained experts to solve problems

c)

They mostly lived in cities

d)

They were mostly farmers

31.

A major factor that helped Woodrow Wilson win the 1912 presidential election was the Republican vote was divided.

a)

True

b)

False

32.

William Randolph Hearst forbid his newspapers from using yellow journalism.

a)

True

b)

False

33.

Theodore Roosevelt is considered the first modern President because he used his powers of office and personal magnetism to “bully” Congress and the people into reforms.

a)

True

b)

False

34.

Theodore Roosevelt foreign policy can best be summed up as "Speak loudly and carry a big stick."

a)

True

b)

False

35.

who is the Journalist who exposed the ruthlessness of Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company?

a)

Alice Walker

b)

Rosa Parks

c)

Mary McLeod Bethune

d)

Ida Tarbell

36.

Who wrote the book The Jungle in an effort to expose the meatpacking industry of selling rotten meat?

a)

Ryan Braun

b)

Jefferson Davis

c)

Upton Sinclair

d)

Hiram Johnson

37.

What president is known as the "Trust Buster?"

a)

Grover Cleveland

b)

William McKinley

c)

Teddy Roosevelt

d)

Richard Nixon

38.

Who is the Wisconsin governor who fought to drive big business out of politics

a)

Hiram Johnson

b)

Ronald Reagen

c)

Robert M. La Follette

d)

Pat Brown

39.

The Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution provided for...

a)

a national income tax

b)

womens suffrage

c)

direct election of Senators

d)

national prohibition

40.

How many times should you take this practice test?

a)

zero

b)

one

c)

two

d)

Until you master it!