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WorksheetsQuiz 1: Industrial and Progressive Age Quiz
Total questions: 48
Worksheet time: 28mins
Match this Term
Ellis Island
Natism
Hull House
New Immigrants
Political Machine
Match this Term
Chinese Exclusion Act
Political Machine
Political Cartoon
Nativism
Regulation
What was one reason for the expansion of machine politics in the late nineteenth century ?
The rapid influx of immigrant made it difficult for local governments 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.
What issue was Thomas Nast raising in the cartoon?
Boss Tweed's inherited wealth
Boss Tweed's lack of intelligence
the corrupt influence of money in politics in New York City
the cost of political campaigns in New York City
When the government does very little to regulate the economy and politics it is called....
Laissez Faire
Disenfranchisement
Assimilation
15th Amendment
What is assimilation?
Process of being disenfranchised
Process of becoming similar to your surroundings
Process of moving westward
End of Reconstruction
Chinese Exclusion Act
Homestead Act
Spoils System
Pendleton Act
Which statement best describes how Thomas Edison change American life?
The creation of the refrigerated railroad car allowed food to be shipped long distances.
The invention of the incandescent light bulb made electrical lighting possible.
The improvement of a process for making steel enable the construction of skyscrapers.
The invention of the telephone enabled people to talk over long distances.
During the Gilded Age most large urban and industrial centers were located in what part of the country?
North
South
West
Midwest
Daughter of former slaves. African American entrepreneur, beauty care products.
Sarah Nickhols
Madam CJ Walker
Miss Bessy Johnson
Madam Qt Steller
Historically, one of the most significant migrations of population in the United States has been the movement of people from rural to urban areas. To appreciate the magnitude of the shift, consider the fact that in 1800, 94% of the U.S. population lived in a rural area, compared with 60% in 1890 and only 25% in 1990!
-Stephan J. Goetz, Migration and Local Labor Markets, 1990
Which factor was a primary reason for the shift described in this excerpt?
Kinship networks
Economic transformation
Government reform
Climate change
This cover from a nineteenth - century periodical helps illustrate that the United States was beginning to change from-
a mostly rural society to a mostly urban one
a slave-owning society to one without slavery
a foreign policy of isolationism to one of intervetionism
a direct democracy to a representative one
Match this term
Booker T. Washington
Populist
NAACP
Tuskegee Institute
Philanthropy
Match this term
W.E.B. Du Bois
Populist
Railroad
NAACP
Philanthropy
Which two federal acts were passed as a result of the book The Jungle by Upton Sinclair?
Anti Sherman Act & Clayton AntiTrust Act
Federal Meat Inspection Act & Pure Food and Drug Act
Federal Meatpacking Sanitation & Holy Foods Act
16th & 17th amendments
Jacob Riis used a different medium to demonstrate the way corporate greed led to the impoverishment of American city-life.
His book, How the Other Half Lives, used __________________ to expose urban living conditions.
Music
Audio Recordings
Paintings
Photographs
What did the Bessemer Process achieve?
Created electric power to streetcars.
Allowed meat to be processed and refrigerated.
More efficiently converted iron to steel.
Allowed planes to travel faster and farther distances.
What was a cause of Gilded Age corruption?
Spoils System
Homestead Act
James Garfield
Dawes Act
What was the Spoils System?
The practice of a successful political party giving public office to its supporters
Railroads gave shares of company stock to Congressmen as bribes
The process of joining a reservation as a Native American
Passing through Ellis Island
James Garfield
William Tweed
Abraham Lincoln
Jacob Riis
Cause of the assassination of President Garfield?
Spoils System
Transcontinental Railroad
Disenfranchisement
Assimilation
Effect of the assassination of James Garfield
Pendleton Act
Dawes Act
Homestead Act
Jim Crow Laws
To regulate railroads and restrict monopolies Congress did what?
Passed the Dawes Act
Passed the Interstate Commerce Act
Committed the Credit Mobilier Scandal
Favored ships over trains to move goods
Why would farmers be upset with railroad companies?
Railroad companies had great power and influence and controlled shipping prices
Railroads were too friendly with native american tribes
It took too long to build the transcontinental railroad
Railroads had too much competition and didnt charge enough to move goods.
When the government does very little to regulate the economy and politics it is called....
Laissez Faire
Disenfranchisement
Assimilation
15th Amendment
Disenfranchisement
Process of having your rights taken away
Process of having more rights given to you
Process of immigrating to the United States
15th Amendment
Impact of Plessy v. Ferguson
Legalized suffrage
Legalized segregation
Legalized westward expansion
Legalized reservations
How did the Dawes Act impact Native Americans?
Forced them to live in Canada
Forced them to live and farm land
Forced them to move to big cities
Provided safety and tribal identity
What is assimilation?
Process of being disenfranchised
Process of becoming similar to your surroundings
Process of moving westward
End of Reconstruction
Jim Crow Laws did what?
Disenfranchised African Americans and segregate society
Disenfranchised wealthy white planters and segregated society
Forced Republicans to become sharecroppers
Led to an increase in voting activity among African Americans
Chinese Exclusion Act
Homestead Act
Spoils System
Pendleton Act
How did the transcontinental railroad impact the settlement of the West?
By connecting the northern and southern states after the Civil War
By connecting the eastern states to the western territories and California
It impacted the west by providing a slow and costly method of travel
It impacted the settlement of the west by closing the frontier
How did the Homestead Act impact the settlement of the West?
Increased westward migration by providing inexpensive land for farming
Decreased westward migration by providing expensive land for farming
Increased westward migration by forcing Native Americans onto reservations
Increased westward migration by providing railroad travel west
