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WorksheetsUnit 10: Social Change
Total questions: 34
Worksheet time: 13mins
Vocab: A reformer is someone who..
fights for changes they beleive will improve their life
fights for changes they beleive will improve society
fights to assimilate people to Christianity
fights for their right to party
Vocab: A time of economic hardship across the country
The New Deal
The Great Depression
Prohibition
The Progressive Movement
Vocab: A time when the production and sale of alcohol was illegal.
The New Deal
The Great Depression
Prohibition
The Progressive Movement
Vocab: A time when reformers fought for social change through government reform.
The New Deal
The Great Depression
Prohibition
The Progressive Movement
Vocab: A time when government programs were started to aid Americans and get them back to work.
The New Deal
The Great Depression
Prohibition
The Progressive Movement
Vocab: The right to vote is called..
suffrage
democracy
independence
politics
Vocab: Complete control of an industry in an area is an example of...
a monopoly
an economy
a stock market
good business
Vocab: The belief that people should work for social and political changes that benefit everybody.
Karma
Common Good
Egotism
Democracy
WS: When did women get the right to vote in all elections in Minnesota?
1919
1920
1858
1849
WS: What amendment to the Constitution gave women the right to vote?
18th
19th
20th
17th
WS: In 1900, women in Minnesota could vote in...
Presidential and National elections
State elections
Library and school board members elections.
no elections. Women did not have the right to vote yet.
WS: By 1896, what states had given women the right to vote?
Idaho
Wyoming
Utah
Colorado
WS: All that suffragists wanted was the right to vote.
True - once they could vote they would be happy.
False - many also wanted equal rights with men in employment and divorce laws.
WS: What was NOT a reason women had more time and power to fight for the right to vote?
Electricty and plumbing made running a home easier
Women were becoming more and more educated
Families were having more children
Women were working outside the home and wanted equal righst
PM: What were two big problems facing workers and farmers in Minnesota?
Poor working conditions in factories
Higher wages than the national average
High shipping rates charged by railroad companies
High rates of pollution from coal mining
PM: What are two benefits that workers got from laws the Minnesota Legislature passed?
Vacation pay
Minimum wage
Pay for workers injured on the job
Retirement pay
PM: What event caused the Minnesota Legislature to pass laws to protect our forests?
Companies were chopping down too many trees
Our Governor loved the forests and pushed for the laws.
Voters pushed for laws to protect them.
A series of forest fires wiped out thousands of acres of forest
PM: What health problems were affecting Minneapolis?
Overcrowded cities allowed disease to spread quickly
Flithy streets and sidewalks
Yellow fever
Contaminated, or unsafe, drinking water
PM: What ways did the State Board of Health improve the health of Minnesotans?
Clean water
Vaccinations for smallpox
Improved the quality and safety of food
Quarentined patients with highlt infectious diseases
PM: What classes could a new immigrant take at a Settlement house?
English
Childcare
Citizenship
Christianity
PM: The policy of Allotment meant that Native American reservation land was...
divided in 160 acre plots and claimed by tribal families
sold to the highest bidder
to be governed by the tribal governments
no longer sovereign
PM: What does a bootlegger do?
makes really tall boots
sells alcohol illegally
runs errands
participates in protests
GD: What year was the stock market crash that marked the start of the Great Depression?
1941
1929
1939
1931
GD: If you can't pay the bank back the money you borrowed to buy your home, and the bank takes your home from you, this is called...
an eviction
a forclosure
bankruptcy
a loan
GD: What was Black Tuesday?
The stock market crash that started the Great Depression
The first dust storm of the Dust Bowl
The first day of Prohibition
The day the Vikings traded Randy Moss
GD: What percentage of Americans were unemployed during the Great Depression?
10%
18%
25%
40%
GD: Severe drought hit the Midwest during the depression causing huge reaccuring dust storms. This was called the...
Dust Bowl
Dirty West
Dust Lands
Dirt Lands
GD: African American music from Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington became very popular during the Great Depression.
True
False
GD: During the Great Depression a woman would often lose her job so that a man could keep his.
True
False
ND: What ways did the New Deal expand government?
the government added members to Congress
the government started to regulate banks
the government added 3 new states
the government started assisting farmers and the unemployed
ND: The New Deal ended the Great Depression.
False
True
ND: The "Indian New Deal" gave Native American tribes what powers?
It ended allotment so tribes could use their land how they wanted.
It gave tribes money to set up their own schools.
It gave tribe the treaty money they had been promised in the past
It allowed tribes to set up their own tribal governments.
ND: What two things did the Social Security Act do?
Provided unemployment money for the jobless
Provided shelter for the homeless
Provided old-age benefits for retired people
Provided security to social media accounts
ND: Who was President during the New Deal?
Herbery Hoover
Woodrow Wilson
Franklin Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt
