WorksheetsPractice Test- 1865-1898
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 45mins
The trend depicted in these maps resulted most directly from which of the following factors?
a. Settlers' and miners' desire for better access to land and resources
b. government subsidies for transportation and communication systems
c. the violation of government treaties with Native Americans
d. The invention of the steam locomotive (train) and improved steel production
Which of the following was NOT an effect of the trend depicted in the maps ?
a. Competition for land led to conflict between white settlers and Native Americans
b. The bison population in the Great Plains was decimated
c. Increased contributions by immigrant labor led to a sharp decline in nativism
d. More efficient transportation led to a decline in food prices
The change depicted in the maps best explains the
a. development of economic differences between regional economies
b. increased diversity of the industrial workforce due to internal and international migration
c. improved standard of living in the United States following the Civil War
d. growth of the national economy and increasing involvement in global trade
The cartoon most directly reflects
a. women’s lack of political power in the 19th Century
b. the growing power of urban political machines in the North
c.the divisiveness of party politics following the Civil War
d. the increased political influence of corporations and special interests
Which of the following did NOT represent a challenge to the ideas expressed in the cartoon?
a. Social Gospel
b. horizontal integration
c. People’s (Populist) Party
d. unionization
The reference to “imported pauperized labor” most likely refers to the influence of which historical development in the late 19th Century?
a. Workforce competition created by an influx of largely poor, uneducated immigrants
b. American markets being flooded by foreign goods from Asia and Latin America
c. Migration of formerly enslaved blacks to northern cities following the Civil War
d. Industrial capitalists cutting wages and subsequently increasing their own profits
Which of the following people or groups would have most strongly opposed the ideas expressed in the excerpt above?
a. The People’s (Populist) Party
b. factory workers
c. Social Darwinists
d. Jane Addams
Which of the following developments most significantly contributed to the circumstances described in the excerpt above?
a. The expansion of laissez-faire policies
b. The restriction of immigration from Asia
c. The industrialized North’s victory in the Civil War
d. The emergence of tenant farming in the South
According to David Von Drehle, what were two conditions faced by people living in Urban Areas in the Early 1900s?
According to Tyler Anbinder, what was one attempt to address issues faced by people living in tenements?
According to Donald L. Miller, what was one way settlement workers attempted to improve sanitary conditions in Chicago?
According to Page Smith, what was one condition faced by industrial workers in the late 1800s?
According to Miriam Finn Scott, what were two conditions that made factory work difficult in 1911?
Based on this New York State document, state one recommendation made by the Factory Investigating Commission in 1912 to address problems faced by workers.
Based on this document, what were two proposals made in the 1912 Progressive Party Platform that addressed issues faced by workers?
