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WorksheetsQuarter 1 Exam Quiz
Total questions: 69
Worksheet time: 41mins
A group of volunteers led by Teddy Roosevelt that gained fame in the Spanish-American War.
Carson's Platoon
Riley's Riders
Rough Riders
Regulators
First governor of Hawaii, led a group of plantation owners to overthrow the queen.
Sanford Dole
Alfred T. Mahan
John J. Pershing
John Hay
Consists of a country’s policies toward other nations.
Foreign Policy
Domestic Issues
Yellow Journalism
State Department
Sensationalized events in Cuba by American newspapers eager for war with Spain.
Propaganda
Dollar Diplomacy
Spanish American War
Yellow Journalism
Fought on two fronts, in the Caribbean and in the Pacific against the Spanish Empire.
World War I
Mexican-American War
Spanish-American War
World War II
Argued that to achieve world power a country needed a powerful navy.
Sanford Dole
Theodore Roosevelt
Alfred T. Mahan
Woodrow Wilson
Mysteriously exploded in Havana Harbor.
U.S.S. Maine
R.M.S Titanic
R.M.S. Lusitania
U.S.S. Constitution
President Taft’s foreign policy toward Latin America advocating investment.
Monroe Doctrine
Roosevelt Corollary
Domino Theory
Dollar Diplomacy
Said Hawaii should be led and controlled by Hawaiians, later surrenders to Americans.
King Kamehameha
Queen Liliuokalani
Sanford Dole
Theodore Roosevelt
Asserted the United States’ right to intervene in Cuban affairs at any time.
Platt Amendment
Roosevelt Corollary
Big Stick Diplomacy
Open Door Policy
Gave equal trading rights to all countries in China.
Big Stick Diplomacy
Open Door Policy
Roosevelt Corollary
Imperialism
Roosevelt boasted he would “speak softly and carry a big stick.”
Big Stick Diplomacy
Roosevelt Corollary
Open Door Policy
Imperialism
US Secretary of State responsible for opening trade with China in the Open Door Policy.
John J. Pershing
John Hay
Joseph Pulitzer
Dr. William Gorgas
The policy or practice of extending a nation's rule over other less powerful territories.
Imperialism
Propaganda
Protectorate
Monroe Doctrine
The ratification of this amendment granted women’s suffrage -
18th Amendment
19th Amendment
16th Amendment
17th Amendment
The Temperance Movement, Women’s Suffrage Movement, and outlawing child labor were reform movements that took place during this era-
Gilded Age
Imperialism
Progressive Era
Roaring 20's
The growing political influence of this group led to the ratification of the 18th and 19th Amendments.
Nativists
Women
Men
Activists
These reforms made the government directly accountable to the citizens.
Referendum, recall, initiative, and 17th amendment
19th and 22nd Amendments
Pendleton Act & Homestead Act
16th and 18th Amendments
People like Upton Sinclair were ___________________ because they investigated and exposed abuse and corruption.
Supporters of Political Machines
Nativists
Muckrakers
Industialists
Which agency did the federal government establish to protect consumer’s safety as a response to Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle?
Pure Food and Drug Administration
NAACP
National Park Service
Environmental Protection Agency
Which movement is Susan B. Anthony most closely associated with?
Harlem Renaissance
Women’s Suffrage
Muckraker Movement
Temperance Movement
What organization did W.E.B. Dubois establish to help secure legal equality for minorities?
Muckrakers Movement
Black Panthers
NAACP
SNCC
What legislation allowed the government to regulate big businesses like railroads and dissolve monopolies?
Pure Food and Drug Act & Chinese Exclusion Act
Civil Rights Act 1964 & Voting Rights Act 1965
Homestead Act & Dawes Act
Sherman Anti-Trust Act & Interstate Commerce Act
What amendment did the members of the Temperance movement work to achieve?
16th
17th
18th
19th
What civil service reform legislation led to less corruption in the government because it established a merit-based system for government jobs?
Interstate Commerce Act
Pendleton Act
Teapot Dome Scandel
Pure Food & Drug Act
· Initiative
· Referendum
· Recall
· Direct Primary
· 17th Amendment
How did the reforms listed above impact America?
The Jungle exposed unsanitary and unsafe practices in the meatpacking industry.
Which muckraker is responsible for exposing the conditions?
Jacob Riis
Lewis Hines
Ida Tarbell
Upton Sinclair
The purpose of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act was to
break up monopolies
give equal rights to women
help people living in poverty
end racism
The Pendleton Act required jobs to be -
based on the political party affiliation of the applicant
determined by a merit system based on civil service examinations
based on the approval of lawmakers
set aside for business executives of large corporations
Which of these was a major goal of Jane Addams’s Settlement House movement in Chicago?
The founding of women’s colleges
The introduction of prison reform
The assimilation of immigrants
The establishment of public libraries
What did the 17th amendment do?
Income taxes
Gave all men the right to vote
Direct election of senators
Single term for president
Which of the following best characterizes the Gilded Age?
The discovery of goldfields in the West led to an increase in the amount of money issued for circulation.
Industrialists used their connection with corrupt government officials for material gain and political power
In the Deep South a sharp increase in immigration brought a boom in construction and industry
Small, family-owned farms were bought and consolidated to form large agricultural corporations
What was one reason for the expansion of machine politics in the late 19th century?
The rapid influx of immigrants made it difficult for local government to provide basic services
Federal restrictions prevented voters from influencing government decisions at the local level
The economy was too tightly regulated to allow urban growth
Settlement houses failed to help immigrants adjust to life in the city
Which application of a new technology can attributed to an invention of Thomas Edison?
Refrigerated railroad cars allowed food to be transported long distances
Light bulbs made it efficient for factory workers to work at night
Diesel engines were used in production of airplanes
Sonar technology was used to track submarines
As settlers moved onto the Great Plains in the 1800s, they needed to build shelters. One way that many settlers met this need was by building sod houses. Why did many settlers build houses made out of sod?
Sod houses would typically last longer than houses made out of other materials.
Sod houses cost little to build because sod was widely available.
Sod houses were more fashionable than other types of buildings
Sod houses were better suited for cold weather than other buildings.
What piece of legislation distributed free land in the Great Plains and primarily attracted farmers?
The Homestead Act
The Interstate Commerce Act
The Dawes Act
The American Indian Citizenship Act
This law was aimed at assimilating Native Americans by offering reservation land on the condition of renouncing their tribes...
The American Indian Citizenship Act
The Homestead Act
The Dawes Act
The Meat Inspection Act
Assimilation is the process of adapting or adjusting to the culture of another group or nation.
True
False
Based on this poster, which is an accurate statement?
Immigrants were encouraged to learn and to speak English
Granite City had laws prohibiting immigrants from moving there
The people in the poster were native-born Americans
Granite City encourged diversity in its immigrant population
Which was a successful example of "Americanization"?
The Dawes Act led to Americanization of the Indians.
The Homestead Act made federal land available to settlers.
The children of New Immigrants learned English in public schools.
Congress prohibited the immigration of Chinese workers.
With which of the following statements would a nativist agree?
“Immigrants must search for opportunity in the United States.”
“Immigrants help to make this country a better place to live.”
“Immigrants need to help each other adapt to life in the United States.”
“Immigrants steal jobs from people who were born in this country.”
The belief that unregulated competition represented the best path to progress and thus that the federal government should promote economic development but not regulate industry.
laissez-faire
expecto patronum
e pluribus unum
novus ordo seclorum
Under the idea of Assimilation immigrants were...
encouraged to learn and speak English
asked to move west
told to keep their traditional clothes
encouraged to move home
urbanization means?
to move westward
to power factories
to grow and expand cities
to change your culture
Children in factories
really enjoyed the work
got paid very little for very dangerous jobs
never really showed up
were promoted quickly
Nativists wanted to limit
the indians
pet adoptions
the number of immigrants
traveling westward
The Chinese Exclusion act was to satisfy who?
Cowboys
Nativists
Immigrants
The Chinese
Making steel quickly and cheaply required the?
Child Labor
Plight
New Automobiles
Bessemer process
The meat packing industry grew because?
barbed wire, millions of cattle, cities wanted beef
westward expansion, british cattle, vegetarians
demand for fish, alaska becoming a state, pancakes
laissez-faire means what for a business?
nothing
the government will take more of your money
the government will be jalapeno face
the government will be hands off.
Rapid industrialization needed what to happen?
expanding westward, assimilation, removing plight
A lack of raw materials, government interference, and population decline
An abundance of raw materials, government support for business, and the population explosion of the late 1800s
Big business, electronics, the light bulb
This shows
assimilation
cheating
westward expansion
plight
