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Unit 1-3 Test Review

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What did Carnegie believe the relationship should be between the rich and the poor?

a)

States should take care of all people

b)

Poor people rely on the rich

c)

The wealthy don't have to do anything

d)

Philanthropy should serve the poor

2.

What caused settlers to move west, increased trade and communication, and the growth of western cities?

a)

Discovery of gold in California and Alaska

b)

Indian Removal Act

c)

The Transcontinental Railroad

d)

The Steel Plow

3.

What is the effect of increased production due to industrialization, farmers debt increasing, and international trade hurting prices?

a)

The government cut farmer benefits off

b)

Farmers move to Western Europe

c)

Tariffs hurt trade

d)

Farmers move to cities for work

4.

What allowed the federal government to get rid of monopolies?

a)

Sherman Antitrust Act

b)

Dawes Act

c)

Homestead Act

d)

Pure Food and Drug Act

5.

What are some characteristics of Irish immigrants?

a)

Moved because of war; Were Eastern Orthodox

b)

Moved because of famine; Were Roman Catholic

c)

Moved because of the Holocaust; Were Jewish

d)

Moved because of lack of Cheetos; Were Anti-religious

6.

What was passed in order to reduce competition for jobs in the United States?

a)

Homestead Act

b)

Chinese Exclusion Act

c)

Dawes Act

d)

The Department of Homeland Security

7.

What were some aspects of the Gilded Age?

a)

Fixing problems caused by Industrialization; Passing new laws to help the people

b)

Huge economic downturn where people lost all their savings; The government is now responsible for the welfare of the people

c)

Growing immigration numbers; Growing industrialization

d)

Explosion of culture including music, art, and music; African Americans gained more economic independence

8.

What secured land to settlers out west?

a)

Chinese immigration; Mexican American War

b)

Klondike Gold Rush; War of 1812; George W. Bush

c)

Andrew Jackson's fight for the common man; The Civil War

d)

Mass killing of the Buffalo; Moving Native Americans to reservations; Moving natives off their land

9.

What in an effect of the Homestead Act?

a)

Cities out west grew

b)

The Transcontinental Railroad was canceled

c)

Food supply decreased

d)

Canada declared war on the United States

10.

Who inspired the creation of National Parks and lots of land being set aside for the public?

a)

Jane Addams

b)

Booker T. Washington

c)

John Muir

d)

WEB DuBois

11.

What era is best described by this list?

-Rise of trusts/monopiles/big business

-Industrialization

-Westward settlement of the USA

a)

WWII

b)

Progressive Era

c)

Rise of a World Power

d)

Gilded Age

12.

Who provided services to the poor in exchange for votes?

a)

Political machines

b)

The president

c)

Muckrakers

d)

Theodore Roosevelt

13.

What tried to fix the spoils system by replacing it with the merit system and get rid of political machines?

a)

Pure Food and Drug Act

b)

Invasion of Normandy

c)

Labor Unions

d)

Civil Service Reform

14.

What is an entrepreneur?

a)

Someone who gains power through voting

b)

Someone who loses all of their money through risky investments

c)

They expose bad problems in society

d)

Work hard using their own money to grow a business

15.

What in an effect of trusts and monopolies?

a)

People lose their voting rights

b)

Decrease in competition hurting consumers

c)

The beginning of the Spanish-American War

d)

The Klondike Gold Rush

16.

Why was the Chinese Exclusion Act passed?

a)

Worried immigrants would take nativists' jobs

b)

Because of the upcoming trade war with China

c)

Unfilled jobs in factories on the East Coast

d)

Labor Unions admitting all races and women

17.

Who lived in tenements? Why?

a)

African Americans; Only place available after the 13th Amendment

b)

Immigrants; It is all they could afford and was available

c)

Canadians; The loss of the War of 1812 caused a mass exodus of refugees from Canada

d)

Robber Barons; They could afford lavish living conditions

18.

What is the reason for the passage of the Interstate Commerce Act?

a)

Silver being added to the money supply

b)

Unemployment hitting record high numbers

c)

Increase in trusts and monopolies

d)

Railroad rates decreasing for farmers

19.

What is an effect of the Klondike Gold Rush?

a)

Billions of people got rich

b)

Russia invaded Alaska

c)

The Transcontinental Railroad was built through Canada

d)

People moved to Alaska

20.

Nativist would not have liked...

a)

Decrease in tariffs

b)

Increase in gold added to the money supply

c)

White settlers moving west

d)

Increase in immigration to the USA

21.

These characteristics match which of the following terms?

-Northeast and Midwest growing in population

-People including farmers moving to cities for jobs

-Dirty and overcrowded

a)

Suburbanization

b)

Urbanization

c)

Westward Expansion

d)

Gentrification

22.

The Progressive Era included...

a)

The Temperance Movement

b)

Homestead Act

c)

The sinking of the Lusitania

d)

Increased tariffs on foreign goods

23.

What allowed the mass production of American steel?

a)

Electricity

b)

Bessemer Process

c)

Telegraph

d)

Light Bulb

24.

What will increase the availability of jobs for Americans?

a)

The Stock Market Crash

b)

The Sinking of the USS Maine

c)

Mass transit such as subways and trolly cars

d)

The Manhattan Project

25.

What allowed factories to be open at night and increase production of goods?

a)

Bessemer Process

b)

Electricity/Light Bulb

c)

19th Amendment

d)

Transcontinental Railroad

26.

Who is associated with the passage of the 19th Amendment?

a)

Ida Tarbell

b)

Ida B. Wells

c)

Jane Addams

d)

Susan B. Anthony

27.

What inspired increased government regulation of the food supply?

a)

Upton Sinclair, The Jungle

b)

Andrew Carnegie; The Gospel of Wealth

c)

Oprah, O Magazine

d)

John D. Rockefeller; I Have More Money Than You

28.

Who believed vocational training would help gain equality for African-Americans?

a)

WEB Dubois

b)

Ida B Wells

c)

Booker T Washington

d)

Theodore Roosevelt

29.

What law was inspired by the political cartoon?

a)

Pure Food and Drug Act

b)

Interstate Commerce Act

c)

Dawes Act

d)

Homestead Act

30.

Who created social programs for the urban poor and immigrants?

a)

Ida B Wells

b)

Jane Addams

c)

John D. Rockefeller

d)

Theodore Roosevelt

31.

What are aspects of the Progressive Era?

a)

War with Germany

b)

Adding colonies to the United States

c)

Expanding Trusts' Political Power

d)

Child Labor Reform

32.

What amendment allowed the direct election of Senators?

a)

16th Amendment

b)

17th Amendment

c)

18th Amendment

d)

21st Amendment

33.

Who is associated with starting the NAACP?

a)

Booker T Washington

b)

Marcus Garvey

c)

WEB DuBois

d)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

34.

Women's political power aided in what being passed?

a)

16th Amendment

b)

18th Amendment

c)

21st Amendment

d)

Pure Food and Drug Act

35.

What expanded the people's direct participation in the democratic process?

a)

13th Amendment

b)

Initiative, Referendum, and Recall

c)

18th Amendment

d)

Homestead Act

36.

What list during the Progressive Era increased voting?

a)

17th & 19th Amendments

b)

14th & 15th Amendments

c)

1st & 5th Amendments

d)

Dawes Act

37.

Who was an advocate for equality and exposed the horrors of lynching in the south?

a)

Ida Tarbell

b)

Ida B Wells

c)

Jane Adams

d)

Marcus Garvey

38.

What effect would the 18th Amendment have on tax revenue?

a)

Increase tax revenue

b)

Decrease tax revenue

c)

Tax revenue remains unchanged

39.

19th Amendment accomplished...

a)

Women's suffrage

b)

Prohibition of alcohol

c)

Decrease in voting

d)

Increase in nativists sentiments

40.

Jane Addams supported...

a)

Trusts

b)

The Roosevelt Family

c)

Immigrants and the urban poor

d)

Education of animals to help people