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Review Content Unit 6

Total questions: 41

Worksheet time: 21mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The Temperance Movement, Women’s Suffrage Movement, and outlawing child labor were reform movements that took place during this era-

a)

Gilded Age

b)

Imperialism

c)

Progressive Era

d)

Roaring 20's

2.

People like Upton Sinclair were ___________________ because they investigated and exposed abuse and corruption.

a)

Supporters of Political Machines

b)

Nativists

c)

Muckrakers

d)

Industialists

3.

What organization did W.E.B. Dubois establish to help secure legal equality for minorities?

a)

Muckrakers Movement

b)

Black Panthers

c)

NAACP

d)

SNCC

4.
Suffrage refers to:
a)
Discrimination
b)
Women’s Rights
c)
The Right To Vote
d)
The Denial of Voting
5.

A muckraking journalist who went in undercover to expose horrible conditions at mental institutions.

a)

Ida B. Wells

b)

Ida Tarbell

c)

Florence Kelley

d)

Nellie Bly

6.
Legal separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences.
a)
Integration
b)
Conflagration
c)
Confederation
d)
Segregation
7.

What Supreme Court case ruled "separate but equal" was legal?

a)

Texas vs. Johnson

b)

Tinker vs. DesMoines

c)

Brown vs. Board of Education

d)

Plessy vs. Ferguson

8.

Which of the following BEST explains the purpose of the Jim Crow system?

a)

Keep public facilities cleaner

b)

keep African-Americans as second-class citizens

c)

keep the races pure

d)

keep African-Americans from voting

9.

You are eligible to vote if you grandfather was eligible to vote under this clause.

a)

Grandfather clause

b)

Father Clause

c)

Grandmother Clause

d)

Santa Clause

10.
What best describes Jim Crow laws?
a)
better opportunities for women
b)
African Americans gaining full civil and political rights
c)
discrimination laws focused on Native Americans
d)
unequal opportunities for African Americans in housing, jobs, and education
11.

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

12.

Political Machines took advantage of what major groups?

a)

The Immigrants and the Poor

b)

The Immigrants and Big Businesses

c)

The Poor and the Chinese

d)

The Chinese and the Big Businesses

13.

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

14.

The title given to people like Carnegie who invested their money to start businesses, such as his steel monopoly.

a)

Entrepreneurs

b)

Nativists

c)

Philanthropists

d)

Populists

15.

The Homestead Act caused a shift in population to move from where to where?

a)

East Coast to West Coast

b)

West Coast to East Coast

16.

What group was motivated the most by "The American Dream" during the Gilded Age?

a)

Immigrants

b)

The Poor

c)

Indians (Native Americans)

d)

Former Slaves

17.

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

18.

The Gilded Age saw the greatest shift in population from which area to which area?

a)

Rural areas to Urban areas

b)

Urban areas to Rural areas

19.

What Supreme Court case set the precedent for "Separate but Equal", which would last until the Civil Rights Movement of the mid 1900s?

a)

Plessy v Ferguson

b)

Brown v Board of Education

c)

Marbury v Madison

d)

Roe v Wade

20.

From this image, who is in control of the US lawmakers.

a)

Large monopolies

b)

small private business

c)

political machines

d)

labor unions

21.

Why does this image depict Rockefeller so large?

a)

He was a political boss who tried to win governmental favors

b)

He was a government inspector looking for corruption

c)

He was a robber baron who used his money and power to influence government

d)

He was looking to correct all of pollution cause by industrialization

22.

What does this image say about the control of Stand Oil?

a)

Standard Oil is a monster trying to control the entire USA

b)

Standard Oil is trying to save government from political bosses

c)

Standard Oil is trying to keep government on the right track to benefit laborers

d)

Stand Oil had control over many aspects of government

23.
Whites Only Water Fountain .... this sign represents what laws in the South
a)
Racial Rules
b)
Lincoln Laws
c)
Black Codes 
d)
Jim Crow
24.

An organization of workers dedicated to protecting members' interests and improving wages, hours and working conditions for all.

a)

Labor Union

b)

Workers Rights

c)

Worker Strikes

d)

Collective Bargaining

25.

The negotiation of wages and other conditions of employment by an organized body of employees

a)

Labor Unions

b)

Workers Rights

c)

Worker Strikes

d)

Collective Bargaining

26.

Facing 12-hour work days and wage cuts resulting from the depressed economy, factory workers at the Pullman Palace Car Company walked out in protest. The strike ended when President Grover Cleveland sent federal troops to Chicago on July 6, 1894.

a)

The Pullman Strike

b)

Great Anthracite Coal Strike

c)

Great Southwest Railroad Strike

d)

Steel Strike of 1919

27.

What was the first nationwide industrial union?

a)

the Knights of Labor

b)

the AFL

c)

the Pinkertons

d)

the Anarchists

28.

Which incident was a result of a Chicago labor disturbance on May 4, 1886, in which people were killed by a bomb thrown during a demonstration?

a)

the Great Railroad Strike

b)

the Haymarket Square Riot

c)

the Homestead Strike

d)

the Pullman Strike

29.
_______ is when workers refuse to work in order to force an employer to meet their demands.
a)
labor unions
b)
party
c)
strike
d)
sweatshop
30.
What was the main cause of the Pullman Strike?
a)
Cut wages 
b)
Pullman wouldn't tell the workers the Wifi password
c)
Raised rent prices
d)
Pullman wouldn't pay for electricity in worker's homes
31.

Most strikes by unions in the late 1800s were unsuccessful mainly because

a)

unions were unconstitutional

b)

strikes had never been used before to settle labor issues

c)

government supported business instead of workers

d)

strikers failed to use militant tactics

32.

Formation of national labor unions in the late 1800's was mainly because of

a)

passage of laws that supported workers

b)

laws restricting immigration

c)

poor working conditions and low wages

d)

economic depression that led to high unemployment

33.
The Homestead Strike was a protest 
a)
in Colorado demanding safer working conditions. 
b)
Chicago demanding an eight-hour workday.
c)
against the Pullman Palace Car Company’s unsafe working conditions
d)
against the Carnegie Steel Company’s plan to cut jobs.
34.
How did the public often perceive unions as the result of events like the Haymarket riot and the Homestead strike?
a)
The unions were viewed as champions of the common man
b)
The unions were viewed as persecuted victims 
c)
The unions were viewed as promoting violence and anarchy 
d)
The unions were viewed as being treated unfairly by the government 
35.
What did workers want when they went on strike?
a)
Higher wages
b)
Better working conditions
c)
Fewer hours 
d)
All of the above
36.
What were working conditions like during the Industrial Revolution? 
a)
Safe
b)
Comfortable 
c)
Awesome 
d)
Dangerous
37.
Why did labor unions first form?
a)
To protect the rights of business owners
b)
To protect the rights of workers
c)
To protect the rights of customers
d)
Allof the above
38.
Which group strongly supported the Women's Suffrage Movement?
a)
Ku Klux Klan
b)
Abolitionists
c)
Anti-Suffrage Society
d)
Regulators
39.
Which amendment gave women the right to vote?
a)
19th
b)
18th
c)
15th
d)
13th
40.
Why were women suffragists angry about the 15th amendment?
a)
Because it gave African American men the right to vote
b)
Because it made prohibition illegal
c)
Because it made alcohol illegal
d)
Women were not angry about the 15th amendment
41.
Who was the president of the United States when women won the right to vote?
a)
Woodrow Wilson
b)
John F. Kennedy
c)
Franklin Roosevelt
d)
William McKinley