WorksheetsUS History Semester 1 Exam
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 25mins
People who would move into an area, hoping to become rich from finding minerals, were known as...
frontiersmen
prospectors
ranchers
settlers
In 1859, when prospector Henry Comstock staked a claim in Six-Mile Canyon, Nevada, the sticky blue-gray mud there turned out to be...
fools gold
iron ore
lead
silver ore
At first, ranchers saw barbed wire as a threat because it
harmed their cattle.
kept their herds from roaming freely.
prevented cattle from finding food.
required much effort to maintain.
Many Mexican Americans lost their lands in the West because
American courts would not recognize Spanish land grants.
Mexican courts forced them to sell to American settlers.
they decided to leave the area before new settlers arrived.
they fought against U.S troops during the War with Mexico.
A glut of wheat on the world market led to
an increase in the number of bonanza farms.
an increased general demand for wheat.
construction of new railroad lines.
falling wheat prices paid to farmers.
The army encouraged the killing of buffalo in order to
force Native Americans onto reservations.
make way for new railroad lines.
protect crops.
starve Native Americans.
In 1864 Colonel John Chivington was ordered to attack the Cheyenne at
Black Hills
Little Big Horn
Medicine Lodge Creek
Sand Creek
George Custer attacked a large group of Lakota and Cheyenne warriors at
Sand Creek.
the Black Hills
the Little Bighorn River.
Wounded Knee.
Defying the orders of the government agent at the reservation, the Lakota continued to perform a ritual called the
Bighorn Dance
Buffalo Dance
Ghost Dance
Peace Dance
The Dawes Act attempted to help Native Americans by
giving them land for farming.
reintroducing the buffalo to native lands.
returning them to their native lands.
sustaining their previous way of life.
Railroad companies raised most of the money that they needed to build their railroads from
hauling freight to market.
private investors.
selling government land grants.
subsidies from tax revenues.
A steel company that owns the coal mines, limestone quarries, and iron ore fields it depends on is an example of
business integration.
capital integration.
stock integration.
vertical integration
The Great Northern became the most successful transcontinental railroad in part because of
bribes the company gave to members of Congress.
its founder’s good decisions and honest business practices.
its investors’ ability to manipulate stock prices.
land grants given to the company by the federal government.
According to the graph, when did the production of steel begin to rise significantly in the United States?
between 1870 and 1875
between 1885 and 1895
between 1895 and 1900
in 1865
Which factor leading to industrialization was not influenced by government policies?
abundant natural resources
cheap immigrant labor
high tariffs
networks of communication and transportation
Laissez-faire relies on ____ to regulate prices and wages.
supply and demand
businesses
government
the GNP
Combining many firms engaged in the same type of business into one corporation is called
a holding company.
a monopoly.
horizontal integration.
vertical integration.
Who claimed there would be a workers’ revolution in which workers would seize control of the factories and create a socialist society?
Anarchists
Knights of Labor
Marxists
Pullman Company
One reason for the country’s industrial success was its vast abundance of natural
resources.
gross national product.
technology.
enterprise.
The American Federation of Labor pushed for closed shops, meaning that companies
could only hire union workers.
could not try to prevent strikes.
would agree to collective bargaining.
would not hire African Americans.
The wave of immigrants that arrived in the late nineteenth century changed American society by
bringing new ideas to American industries.
changing the face and size of American cities.
forming ethnic neighborhoods in many communities.
rapidly assimilating into mainstream American culture.
William M. Tweed was
the designer of the first skyscraper.
the inventor of the electric trolley car.
the leader of the Workingman’s Party.
the party boss of a political machine.
In the late nineteenth century, southern states passed Jim Crow laws in order to
ban the Populist Party.
enforce discrimination.
protect African Americans.
put limits on voting rights.
In 1896, the Supreme Court’s decision in Plessy v. Ferguson upheld the doctrine of
civil rights.
“equal protection.”
the right to vote.
“separate but equal.”
Tammany Hall was the name of a
dance hall.
political machine.
saloon.
theater.
The philosophy of Social Darwinism applied Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution to
biblical accounts of creation.
human society and competition.
political and economic issues.
the social reform movement.
In contrast to Social Darwinists, social reformers believed that society’s problems could be fixed only by
encouraging competition and natural selection.
helping poor people to help themselves.
recognizing that people fail due to circumstances beyond their control.
regulating the economy and helping those in need.
The vast majority of immigrants arriving on the East Coast spent about a day at a processing center located where?
Angel Island
Ellis Island
Staten Island
Long Island
Formed in 1869, the Cincinnati Red Stockings were the nation’s first
sports team affiliated with a city.
professional baseball team.
World Series champion.
college football team.
Passed by Congress in response to the assassination of President James A. Garfield, the Pendleton Act
brought an end to patronage and the spoils system.
marked the beginning of a professional civil service.
attempted to regulate rates charged by railroads.
increased tariffs on textiles and many other goods.
Who organized a rebellion in 1895 declaring Cuban independence?
Jose Cuervo
Teddy Roosevelt
Jose Marti
William Randolph Hearst
Why did the U.S. feel obligated to intervene in the Cuban civil war?
Yellow Journalism, as well as over $50M in business investments by Americans in Cuba.
Cuba was a popular vacation spot for Americans at this time.
Castro was in control and the U.S. was committed to ending Communism.
None of the above.
What happened in Havana Harbor in 1898 that triggered the U.S. to declare war on Spain.
The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
The Cubans attacked several US Warships.
The Spanish seized the USS Maine.
The USS Maine exploded in the harbor.
Who led the Rough Riders into battle in the Spanish-American War?
William McKinley
John Wayne
Teddy Roosevelt
Franklin Roosevelt
At the end of the Spanish-American war, Spain lost Cuba, The Phillipines, _________, & Guam to the U.S.
Germany
Mexico
Jamaica
Puerto Rico
Thousands died during the construction of __________ due to accidents, yellow fever, and malaria.
The Roosevelt Corollary
The Panama City Canal
The Spanish-American Wall
The Panama Canal
Though Woodrow Wilson opposed American Imperialism, he still purchased _________ from Denmark.
Cuba
The Florida Keys
The Virgin Islands
Puerto Rico
Wilson refused to recognize the government of ________ when General Huerta overthrew it and did not allow democratic elections.
Spain
Germany
Maine
Mexico
Type of sensational, biased, and often false reporting for the sake of attracting readers.
Jingoism
Mandalorianism
Yellow Journalism
Pink Journalism
A policy of joining the business interests of a country with its diplomatic interests abroad.
diplomatic monetization
dollar diplomacy
jingoism
Communism
The Progressive Era aimed to move America from a _______ economy to one of government reform.
bad
corrupt
Communist
lassiez-faire
The _________ exposed abuses and corruption in reform minded magazines.
mudslingers
muckrakers
bootleggers
yellow journalists
Who wrote The Jungle?
Teddy Roosevelt
Jacob Riis
Mark Twain
Upton Sinclair
The Jungle described the horrors of what industry?
postal service
meatpacking
shipping
waste disposal
The 17th Amendment allowed
women to vote
voters, instead of state legislatures, to select their senators.
the government to ban the sale of alcoholic beverages
businesses to disallow black people from entry.
Teddy Roosevelt ended the miner strike of 1902 by...
leading the rough riders up San Juan Hill to victory
parading the Great White fleet around the lake near the mines
negotiating a compromise with no threat of violence
threatening to use the military to seize control of the mines
What statement best describes William Howard Taft?
he was the exact opposite of Teddy Roosevelt politically.
he was a conservative democrat who worked to keep segregation intact
he hated Teddy Roosevelt and attempted to shoot him mid-speech in 1904.
he was friends with Roosevelt and continued Roosevelt's Progressive policies
What caused Roosevelt to join the "Bull Moose Party" in 1912?
Taft controlled the Republican Convention so he unfairly gained their nomination despite Roosevelt's greater popularity.
Roosevelt was no longer a Progressive thinker; he wanted to focus instead on Native American needs and named the party after the Sioux Chief Bull Moose.
Roosevelt was shifting politically closer to a Democratic way of thinking, but he did not want to call himself a Democrat.
He liked the name better.
What happened in the election of 1912 as a result of Roosevelt running as a 3rd candidate the "Bull Moose" party.
Taft won the presidency again because Roosevelt split the Democrat vote with Wilson.
Roosevelt won by a narrow margin over Wilson and Taft by gaining some Republican and some Democratic support.
Taft dropped out of the Presidential race due to ill health from his ever expanding girth, and the stress of Roosevelt running against him.
Roosevelt and Taft split the Republican vote, so Progressive Democrat Woodrow Wilson won the election.
Though Wilson was a Progressive and helped to create things like The Graduated Income Tax, The Federal Reserve, and The Underwood Tariff, he still on to what non-Progressive ideology?
Women's Sufferage
The Temperance Movement
The Monroe Doctrine
Segregation
