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10. Reform & Imperialism

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

People trying to reform (change) society during the late 1800’s:

a)

Rebels

b)

Confederates

c)

Progressives

d)

Snitches

2.

Founded the Hull House to assist new immigrants in Chicago:

a)

Jane Addams

b)

Ida B. Wells

c)

W.E.B. DuBois

d)

Jerry Lee Lewis

3.

A writer who exposed the truth about something bad in society:

a)

Journalist

b)

Snitch

c)

Meteorologist

d)

Muckraker

4.

Author of the Jungle, a book that exposed the bad conditions in the meatpacking industry:

a)

Ida Tarbell

b)

Booker T. Washington

c)

Upton Sinclair

d)

Jacob Riis

5.

Woman who wrote magazine articles exposing Standard Oil’s corrupt business practices:

a)

Ida Tarbell

b)

Jane Addams

c)

Harriot Beecher Stowe

d)

Jillian Michaels

6.

System of conserving land and natural resources:

a)

Conservationism

b)

Liberalism

c)

Progressivism

7.

An important Progressive reformer who became President of the US. He helped pass through many progressive reforms.

a)

Teddy Roosevelt

b)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

c)

Harry Truman

d)

Woodrow Wilson

8.

A public vote on a new law:

a)

Initiative

b)

Referendum

c)

Recall

d)

Congressional elections

9.

Ability of citizens to remove public officials from office:

a)

Initiative

b)

Referendum

c)

Recall

d)

Congressional elections

10.

Laws in the south that enforced segregation:

a)

Slavery

b)

Black Codes

c)

Grandfather Clause

d)

Jim Crow Laws

11.

Supreme Court case that established the idea of “separate but equal”:

a)

Scott vs Sandford

b)

Mulberry vs Madison

c)

Roe vs Wade

d)

Plessy vs Ferguson

12.

A civil rights organization that demanded racial equality:

a)

Abolition

b)

Temperance movement

c)

NAACP

d)

The Great Awakening

13.

A law that banned Chinese immigration to the US:

a)

Jim Crow Law

b)

Chinese Immigration Law

c)

The Gilded Act

d)

Chinese Exclusion Act

14.

A war with Spain that resulted in the independence of Cuba and US control over Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines:

a)

The Revolutionary War

b)

The Spanish Civil War

c)

The Mexican American War

d)

The Spanish-American War

15.

A a war caused by Filipino rebellion against US authority:

a)

The Spanish-American War

b)

The Philippine-American War

c)

The Mexican-American War

d)

The War of 1812

16.

An addition to the Monroe Doctrine that said the US would “police” Latin America & a warning to European nations to stay out of the Western Hemisphere:

a)

Roosevelt Corollary

b)

Nationalism

c)

Imperial Warning

17.

A canal built in central America that connected the Atlantic and Pacific ocean:

a)

Eerie Canal

b)

Great Lakes Waterway

c)

Oswego Canal

d)

Panama Canal