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Unit One: Rise of Industrialization (Test Review)

Total questions: 53

Worksheet time: 40mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What territories did President James K. Polk promise to bring in to the US?

a)

California

b)

Texas

c)

Oregon

d)

Louisiana

2.

What were the names of the companies that built the Transcontinental Railroad?

a)

Central Pacific

b)

Union Pacific

c)

Centrail Overland

d)

Pike's Peek Express Company

3.

What was the name of the treaty that ended the Mexican-American War?

a)

Treaty of Texas

b)

Treaty of Guadalupe Texas

c)

Texan-Hidalgo Treaty

d)

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

4.

What replaced the Pony Express?

a)

U.S. Mail

b)

The Transcontinental Railroad

c)

The Oregon Trail

d)

The transcontinental telegraph

5.

What did Joseph Glidden create to help keep cattle out of crops?

a)

Steel plow

b)

Mechanical reaper

c)

Barbed wire

d)

Steel fencing

6.

What animal became nearly extinct on the Great Plains?

a)

Texas Longhorn

b)

Prairie Dog

c)

Locust

d)

Buffalo

7.

Which of the following was NOT a consequence of the Compromise of 1877?

a)

Troops in the South were withdrawn

b)

Jim Crow era began

c)

Samuel Tilden became President

d)

Reconstruction ended

8.

What act was signed in 1861 by President Lincoln that authorized the created of a railroad linked the network of railroads in the northeast with a railroad line that went to California?

a)

Pacific Railroad Act

b)

Interstate Commerce Act

9.

What act gave men over the age of 21 the right to claim 160 acres of free land?

a)

Homestead Act

b)

Dawes Act

10.

What act was the first legal justification for the removal and isolation of Native Americans?

a)

Indian Appropriations Act

b)

Indian Removal Act

11.

What was the agreement between the US government and Native Americans, broken by the US gov, that began the policy of forcibly assimilating Native Americans into reservations?

a)

Treaty of Fort Laramie

b)

Indian Appropriations Act

12.

What authorized the creation of the first reservations?

a)

Dawes Act

b)

Indian Appropriations Act

13.

This act was AKA the Allotment Act, change from the forced removal of Native Americans onto reservations into forced assimilation.

a)

Dawes Act

b)

Indian Appropriations Act

14.

What act gave the federal government the authority to intervene when a state failed to protect citizens from vigilante groups?

a)

14th Amendment

b)

Enforcement Acts

15.

What gave citizenship, civil, and legal rights to Black Americans and recently freed slaves?

a)

14th Amendment

b)

15th Amendment

16.

What gave Black men the right to vote?

a)

14th Amendment

b)

15th Amendment

17.

What was the "separate but equal" Supreme Court case?

a)

Plessy v. Ferguson

b)

Treaty of Fort Laramie

18.

What act created the Interstate Commerce Commission?

a)

Pacific Railroad Act

b)

Interstate Commerce Act

19.

What act helped end the spoils system?

a)

Chinese Exclusion Act

b)

Pendleton Civil Service Act

20.

What was the first race-based restriction on immigration?

a)

Chinese Exclusion Act

b)

Indian Removal Act

21.

What is cultural modification of an individual or group by adapting or borrowing traits from another culture?

a)

Acculturation

b)

Assimilation

22.

What is the process by which a minority group's culture comes to resemble a dominant group or assumes the values, behaviors, and beliefs of another group?

a)

acculturation

b)

assimilation

23.

What is a premeditated, extrajudicial killing by a group?

a)

lynching

b)

nativism

24.

What is the state of being deprived of a right, especially the right to vote?

a)

political machine

b)

disenfranchisement

25.

What is the nickname for Black citizens that successfully moved westward to escape racial and economic oppression?

a)

Exodusters

b)

robber barons

26.

What is a shallow surface that covers up the poverty and corruption below?

a)

disenfranchisement

b)

gilded

27.

Who is someone that became rich through ruthless and unscrupulous business practices?

a)

Exoduster

b)

robber baron

28.

What is a justification for the inequality in wealth; the "survival of the fittest"?

a)

Social Darwinism

b)

nativism

29.

What is the name of the organization that provided social services and jobs in exchange for votes?

a)

political machine

b)

robber baron

30.

What is improving methods of appointments, rules of conduct, etc., for politicians?

a)

disenfranchisement

b)

civil service reform

31.

What is an arrangement where the supply chain of a company is owned by that company?

a)

horizontal integration

b)

vertical integration

32.

Cities or towns, places with large populations.

a)

political machine

b)

urban

33.

What is the term for something happening in a home country to push someone to emigrate?

a)

push factor

b)

pull factor

34.

What is the term for something that draws someone to a new place?

a)

push factor

b)

pull factor

35.

What is the name of the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants rather than those of immigrants?

a)

nativism

b)

lynching

36.

Owning multiple businesses of the same kind (ex: John Rockefeller owning all the refineries in Cleveland).

a)

horizontal integration

b)

vertical integration

37.

Who was the father of the Black Exodus?

a)

William "Boss" Tweed

b)

Benjamin "Pap" Singleton

38.

Who ran Tammany Hall in New York City?

a)

Thomas Nast

b)

William "Boss" Tweed

39.

Who used political cartoons in an attempt to take down Tammany Hall?

a)

Thomas Nast

b)

Nikola Tesla

40.

Who led the 19th century expansion of the steel industry in the US?

a)

John D. Rockefeller

b)

Andrew Carnegie

41.

Who owned Standard Oil and established the first trust?

a)

John D. Rockefeller

b)

Andrew Carnegie

42.

Who created A/C electricity that replaced the D/C electricity that had been in use?

a)

Thomas Edison

b)

Nikola Tesla

43.

Who was born Sarah Breedlove and became one of the wealthiest women of her time?

a)

Madam C.J. Walker

b)

Jane Addams

44.

They were mostly migrants from England, France, Ireland, or Germany; culturally similar, literate, and easily adapted to life in the US.

a)

new immigrants

b)

old immigrants

45.

They were mostly migrants from Greece, Italy, or Russia; culturally different, poor, often illiterate, and had a difficult time adapting to life in the US.

a)

new immmigrants

b)

old immigrants

46.

This was an immigrant that came with expertise in an area.

a)

skilled worker

b)

unskilled worker

47.

This was an immigrant who had little specialized skill and often worked in a factory or at a construction job.

a)

skilled worker

b)

unskilled worker

48.

Who was the co-founder of the Hull House in Chicago and a social reformed?

a)

Jane Addams

b)

Jacob Riis

49.

Who compiled photographs into a book (How the Other Half Lives) to show the difficulties that immigrants faced?

a)

Jacob Riis

b)

Benjamin "Pap" Singleton

50.

What was the name of the "Know Nothing" Party?

a)

Native American Party

b)

Working Man's Party

51.

What political party stated that they wanted to "rid the country of cheap Chinese labor"?

a)

Native American Party

b)

Working Man's Party

52.

What was the name given to westward expansion and the belief that it was a US right to occupy the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific?

(a)  

53.

What was the name of the immigration station that opened in 1892 in New York City?

(a)