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Unit 5 Review 20-21---Part Two

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 50mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Railroad

a)

First American "big business"

b)

created the assembly line method of production and the Ford Model T car

c)

Airplane,railroads, automobiles, steamboats

d)

Applied Darwin's theory of natural selection and "survival of the fittest" to human society -- the poor are poor because they are not as fit to survive. Used as an argument against social reforms to help the poor.

2.

JP Morgan

a)

banker and later owned a steel company

b)

used as a source of cheap labor; able to find jobs easily due to unskilled jobs in factories

c)

An organization of workers that tries to improve working conditions, wages, and benefits for its members.

d)

Negative terminology as related to the wealthy.

3.

Henry Ford

a)

created the assembly line method of production and the Ford Model T car

b)

used as a source of cheap labor; able to find jobs easily due to unskilled jobs in factories

c)

banker and later owned a steel company

d)

Negative terminology as related to the wealthy.

4.

John D. Rockefeller

a)

Oil Monopolist- formed Standard Oil

b)

More efficient than small businesses

c)

used as a source of cheap labor; able to find jobs easily due to unskilled jobs in factories

d)

Negative terminology as related to the wealthy.

5.

Andrew Carnegie

a)

Steel Monopolist

b)

Aided Westward Expansion

c)

Created new middle class

d)

Negative terminology as related to the wealthy.

6.

Dawes Act

a)

1887; law that distributed reservation land to individual Native American owners

b)

American Indian chief, he lead the victory of Little Bighorn

c)

the major cattle route from San Antonio, Texas, through Oklahoma to Kansas

d)

This scandal occurred in the 1870s when a railroad construction company's stockholders used funds that were supposed to be used to build the Union Pacific Railroad for railroad construction for their own personal use

7.

assimilation

a)

Ethnic groups lost their distinctive culture through the domination of newly expanding empires

b)

Railroad that ran from Duluth to Seattle north of the Northern Pacific. It was the creation of a man named James J. Hill. It was the last of the transcontinental railroads of the 19th century. It was finished in 1893.

c)

A mostly flat and grassy region of western North America

d)

moving cattle from farmland to distribution plants

8.

exodusters

a)

African Americans who moved from post reconstruction South to Kansas.

b)

Railroad that ran from Duluth to Seattle north of the Northern Pacific. It was the creation of a man named James J. Hill. It was the last of the transcontinental railroads of the 19th century. It was finished in 1893.

c)

A railroad that started in Omaha, and it connected with the Central Pacific Railroad in Promentary Point, UTAH

d)

moving cattle from farmland to distribution plants

9.

Transcontinental Railroad

a)

Railroad connecting the west and east coasts of the continental US

b)

put an end to the open range

c)

A railroad that started in Omaha, and it connected with the Central Pacific Railroad in Promentary Point, UTAH

d)

African Americans who moved from post reconstruction South to Kansas.

10.

standard time

a)

an effect of the railroad, a standard time system was developed to facilitate scheduling

b)

1887; law that distributed reservation land to individual Native American owners

c)

Apache leader who fought U.S. soldiers to keep his land. He led a revolt of 4,000 of his people after they were forced to move to a reservation in Arizona.

d)

In December 1890, Army troops captured some of Sitting Bull's followers and took them to a camp. 300 Sioux men, women, and children were killed

11.

Where did the Union Pacific and Central Pacific meet to complete the building of the transcontinental railroad?

a)

. Promontory Summit, Utah

b)

. Pikes Peak, Colorado

c)

. Black Hills, South Dakota

d)

. Salt Lake City, Utah

12.

The Progressive movement supported the idea that the federal government should

a)

regulate big business

b)

stop immigration

c)

build an overseas empire

d)

promote business monopolies

13.

Settlement houses were

a)

Places immigrants and the poor could go to receive vital resources

b)

A type of slum or ghetto in cities

c)

Immigration centers, where immigrants went when they first arrived

d)

Houses of rich people

14.

Booker T. Washington advocated that African Americans must


.

a)

earn their equality

b)

protest for their immediate rights

c)

becomes doctors and lawyers

d)

move to the north to escape discrimination

15.

W.E.B. Dubois founded this organization

a)

NAACP

b)

NRA

c)

SEC

d)

IWW

16.

Progressive Era

a)

time in the early 1900s when Americans tried to address the problems create by industrialization and urbanization

b)

The practice of letting voters accept or reject measures proposed by the legislature

c)

laws banning the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages

d)

the right to vote

17.

19th Amendment

a)

Gave women the right to vote

b)

the right of citizens to place a measure or issue before the voters or the legislature for approval

c)

laws banning the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages

d)

Former President who founded the Progressive Party

18.

Muckraker

a)

a journalist who uncovers abuses and corruption in a society

b)

laws banning the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages

c)

President who lost the election of 1912

d)

a vote held by all members of a political party to decide their candidate for public office

19.

suffrage

a)

the right to vote

b)

Gave women the right to vote

c)

Established the direct election of senators (instead of being chosen by state legislatures)

d)

a journalist who uncovers abuses and corruption in a society

20.

Prohibition

a)

laws banning the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages

b)

President who lost the election of 1912

c)

a journalist who uncovers abuses and corruption in a society

d)

A Democrat who won the election of 1912 when the Republican vote was split.

21.

17th Amendment

a)

Established the direct election of senators (instead of being chosen by state legislatures)

b)

the right of citizens to place a measure or issue before the voters or the legislature for approval

c)

laws banning the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages

d)

Former President who founded the Progressive Party

22.

16th Amendment

a)

Allows the federal government to collect income tax

b)

the right of citizens to place a measure or issue before the voters or the legislature for approval

c)

laws banning the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages

d)

Former President who founded the Progressive Party

23.

The author who wrote a book about the horrors of food productions in 1906, the bad quality of meat and the dangerous working conditions.

a)

Upton Sinclair, The Jungle

b)

Pure Food and Drug Act

c)

Electoral College

d)

Progressive Era

24.

Co-founded the NAACP to help secure legal equality for minority citizens.

a)

W.E.B. DuBois

b)

Sherman Antitrust Act

c)

Electoral College

d)

Electoral College

25.

social reformer who campaigned for women's rights, the temperance, and was an abolitionist, helped form the National Woman Suffrage Association

a)

Susan B. Anthony

b)

Interstate Commerce Act

c)

Bull Moose Party (Progressive Party)

d)

Civil Service Reform Act of 1978

26.

period of political and social reform that lasted roughly from the 1890s to the 1920s

a)

Progressive Era

b)

Interstate Commerce Act

c)

Bull Moose Party (Progressive Party)

d)

Civil Service Reform Act of 1978

27.

African-American journalist who led the fight against lynching

a)

Ida B. Wells

b)

Interstate Commerce Act

c)

Susan B. Anthony

d)

Federal Reserve Act of 1913

28.

a body of people representing the states of the US, who formally cast votes for the election of the president and vice president.

a)

Electoral College

b)

19th Amendment

c)

Susan B. Anthony

d)

Federal Reserve Act of 1913

29.

Gave women the right to vote

a)

Electoral College

b)

19th Amendment

c)

Susan B. Anthony

d)

Federal Reserve Act of 1913

30.

Established the direct election of senators (instead of being chosen by state legislatures)

a)

17th Amendment

b)

19th Amendment

c)

Susan B. Anthony

d)

Federal Reserve Act of 1913

31.

An organized group that controlled the activities of a political party in a city.

a)

Political Machine

b)

Civil Service

c)

The Third Party

d)

House of Representatives

32.

Head of Tammany Hall

a)

Boss Tweed

b)

Grover Cleveland

c)

Chester A. Arthur

d)

Rutherford B. Hayes

33.

Urbanization

a)

Growth of cities.

b)

Rundown apartments built close to factories and barely meet minimum standards such as no electricity, heat, running water, or windows.

c)

To enter and settle in a country or region to which one is not native

d)

Third class steamer ticket.

34.

immigrant

a)

one who moves to a new country

b)

did not speak English, not Protestant Christian, not from the same cultures as "old" immigrants, less educated

c)

Boss of New York City's Tammany Hall

d)

reasons for leaving your home country; crushing poverty, government persecution, etc.

35.

"Push" factors

a)

reasons for leaving your home country; crushing poverty, government persecution, etc.

b)

"Support for the concerns of ordinary people"

c)

journalists, writers and artists that attempted to expose the problems of the new industrial, urban America

d)

political machine that controlled New York City

36.

nativism

a)

the policy of protecting the interests of people born in country against those of immigrants.

b)

came from northern and western Europe

c)

reasons for going to the country immigrants go to; freedom, "American dream: jobs, etc.

d)

Immigrants, mostly men, who came in the spring and returned to their home country in the fall

37.

emigrant

a)

one who leaves a country

b)

organized when the Grange and the Farmer's Alliance could not get the government to listen to the problems of farmers; unsuccessfully ran candidates for president.

c)

came from northern and western Europe

d)

increased supply, high tariffs, inflation/deflation

38.

"Pull" factors

a)

reasons for going to the country immigrants go to; freedom, "American dream: jobs, etc.

b)

the policy of protecting the interests of people born in country against those of immigrants.

c)

Party established in the1850's that was primarily anti-Catholic and hostile to immigration, starting originally as a secret society.

d)

political machine that controlled New York City

39.

Angel Island

a)

Immigration station in San Francisco, California mostly processing people from Asia.

b)

Growth of cities.

c)

1890s-1920s immigrants who were mostly Catholics, Muslims, and Jews from Southern and Eastern Europe.

d)

Third class steamer ticket.

40.

Americans who feared that immigrants would take jobs and opposed immigration are ______________.

a)

Nativists

b)

The K.K.K.

c)

Nazis

41.

The Revolution of ______________ helped connect cities together, making it easy for people to get from one place to another. This caused American cities to grow and become bigger.

a)

Transportation

b)

Germans

c)

Immigrants

d)

Irish

42.

What was a pull factor?

a)

Abundant Land

b)

Not happy with land

c)

War

d)

illness

43.

Poorly designed apartments and an overcrowded housing place in which many immigrants lived were called ______________.

a)

Tenements

b)

urban challenges

c)

immigration homes

d)

illness

44.

What did the majority of major cities not have at the time?

a)

Clean water.

b)

They had everything.

c)

People

d)

Buildings

45.

Community Centers in the slums that provided assistance to the poor and needy.

a)

Settlement Houses

b)

Tenements

c)

YMCA

d)

Soup Kitchens

46.

Which factor played a role in Industrialization in the United States?

a)

Railroad Expansion

b)

End of the Civil War

c)

Native American Slaves

d)

All of the other answers

47.

Gilded Age

a)

period in the last decades of the 19th century in which extravagance and wealth concealed mounting social problems, government corruption, and poverty

b)

residential area surrounding a city

c)

blended nationalities that create a single culture

d)

Law that created an Asiatic Barred Zone, covering most of East Asia and the Pacific Islands.

48.

Jane Addams

a)

Established Chicago's Hull House, providing help such as night school, kindergarten, and gyms for immigrants and the poor.

b)

Discrimination of immigrants by US Americans. Elide that immigrants threatened "American Values".

c)

Poorest urban areas where specific racial or ethnic groups live

d)

The process of moving from one country or region to another and then settling there.

49.

The growth of cities is called

a)

urbanization

b)

industrialization

c)

entrepreneurs

d)

the Bessemer process

50.

The shift from a farming based economy to an industry based economy is...

a)

urbanization

b)

industrialization

c)

entrepreneurs

d)

the Bessemer process