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Unit 3 & 4 Test Review

Total questions: 38

Worksheet time: 31mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which president wanted to control businesses and conserve the environment?

a)

William McKinley

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

Theodore Roosevelt

d)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

2.

During the early 1900s, the term "muckrakers" was used to describe-

a)

pacifists who demonstrated against war

b)

Politicians who criticized Progressive Era presidents

c)

Writers who exposed the evil in American society

d)

Newspaper columnists who reported in celebrities

3.
During the Progressive Era, Jane Addams responded to urban conditions by working to establish-
a)
free public schools located in inner-city neighborhoods
b)
settlement houses that provided assistance to the poor
c)
newspapers that helped to inform Americans about slum conditions
d)
laws that restricted certain immigrant groups
4.
What act did The Jungle help establish?
a)
Pendleton Act
b)
Pure Food and Drug Act
c)
Federal Reserve Act
d)
Dawes Act
5.
Which amendment gave women the right to vote?
a)
16th Amendment
b)
17th Amendment
c)
18th Amendment
d)
19th Amendment
6.

The Progressive Era was a time during which:

a)

the Industrial Age began.

b)

intense social and political changes were made to improve society.

c)

wealthy company owners started taking advantage of their workers.

d)

the government allowed the company owners to take advantage of their workers.

7.

Who was the first Progressive President?

a)

President Lincoln

b)

President McKinley

c)

President Teddy Roosevelt

d)

President Franklin Roosevelt

8.

Which of the following was NOT one of the amendments that were passed during the Progressive Era?

a)

19th Amendment: Gave women the right to vote.

b)

16th Amendment: The Federal Income Tax

c)

18th Amendment: The prohibition of alcohol

d)

15th Amendment: Gave African-American men the right to vote.

9.
Who wrote the expose piece of literature that revealed the extensive corrupt monopolistic business practices of Standard Oil?
a)
Ida Tarbell
b)
Lewis Hines 
c)
Jacob Riis
d)
Upton Sinclair
10.
Whose book led to the direct passage of the Meat Inspection Act and indirect of the Pure Food and Drug Acts?
a)
Jacob Riis
b)
Lewis Hines
c)
Ida Tarbell
d)
Upton Sinclair
11.
This person helped to found the NAACP
a)
Ida B Wells
b)
Booker T Washington
c)
W E B DuBois
d)
Martin Luther King Jr.
12.
Progressive President who was endorsed originally by Roosevelt (who later runs against him), disliked the presidency, busted up trusts and  monopolies
a)
William H. Taft
b)
Woodrow Wilson
c)
Theodore Roosevelt
d)
Chester A. Arthur
13.

Tests given to African Americans at the voting polls.

a)

Literacy Tests

b)

Voting tests

c)

Government Tests

d)

Poll tests

14.

What areas were racially segregated?

a)

Schools

b)

Theaters

c)

Public Transportation

d)

All of these answers

15.

Which word means "the right to vote"?

a)

Democracy

b)

Elections

c)

Suffrage

d)

Rights

16.
What was Ellis Island?
a)
An amusement park
b)
An immigration center in New Jersey
c)
An immigration center in New York
d)
The first capital of the United States
17.

What did Homer Plessy do that got him arrested?

a)

Sat in the white only part of the bus.

b)

Took a seat in the white only car of a train.

c)

Sat at a white only section of a lunch counter.

d)

None of the above

18.

What is a synonym for "urban"?

a)

city

b)

famland

c)

nationality

d)

population

19.

What Supreme Court case ruled "separate but equal" was legal?

a)

Texas vs. Johnson

b)

Tinker vs. DesMoines

c)

Brown vs. Board of Education

d)

Plessy vs. Ferguson

20.

Where did most of the immigrants come from that entered the U.S. through Ellis Island?

a)

eastern and southern Europe

b)

South Africa

c)

West Asia

d)

Latin America

21.

Formation of national labor unions in the late 1800's was mainly because of

a)

passage of laws that supported workers

b)

laws restricting immigration

c)

poor working conditions and low wages

d)

economic depression that led to high unemployment

22.

People emigrated to the USA because of

a)

political instability

b)

restrictive religious laws

c)

deteriorating economic conditions

d)

deteriorating climate conditions

23.

You are eligible to vote if you grandfather was eligible to vote under this clause.

a)

Grandfather clause

b)

Father Clause

c)

Grandmother Clause

d)

Santa Clause

24.

What processing station did immigrants go through on the WEST coast?

a)

Ellis Island

b)

Angel Island

c)

Devil Island

d)

Alcatraz

25.

An organization of workers dedicated to protecting members' interests and improving wages, hours and working conditions for all.

a)

Labor Union

b)

Workers Rights

c)

Worker Strikes

d)

Collective Bargaining

26.
_______ is when workers refuse to work in order to force an employer to meet their demands.
a)
labor unions
b)
party
c)
strike
d)
sweatshop
27.
Founder of "Hull House"
a)
Susan B. Anthony
b)
Boss Tweed
c)
Jacob Riis
d)
Jane Addams
28.
What were working conditions like during the Industrial Revolution? 
a)
Safe
b)
Comfortable 
c)
Awesome 
d)
Dangerous
29.
19th century Chinese immigrants are known for what?
a)
Work in building the Transcontinental Railroad
b)
Work in New York factories
c)
Contributions to the steel industry
d)
Contributions to John D. Rockefeller
30.
Why did immigrants often live in neighborhoods with others from their homelands?
a)
It was illegal to live anywhere else
b)
They didn't want to be in the US
c)
It made their adjustment to their new life easier
d)
No other housing was avaliable
31.

From 1910 to 1930, approximately 1.6 million migrants left rural areas in Southern states and moved to Northern cities. This population shift known as the Great Migration.

​Which group relocated from the South to the North in the largest numbers during this period?

a)

Asian Americans

b)

Native Americans

c)

African Americans

d)

Mexican Americans

32.

Which amendment was added to the Constitution because many state legislatures were controlled by powerful "political bosses" that often dictated who was to be elected Senator for that state.

a)

16th

b)

17th

c)

18th

d)

19th

33.

Laws like the Meat Inspection Act, Pure Food and Drug Act, and the Federal Reserve Act were created for the common purpose of ___________?

a)

to protect the nation's corporations

b)

to improve conditions for recent immigrants to the U.S.

c)

to protect the American public from corporate abuse

d)

to allow corporations to grow which would help the U.S. economy

34.

What is the practice of favoring native-born people over foreign-born people?

a)

urbanization

b)

assimilation

c)

nativism

d)

militarism

35.

Which group of Americans were targeted with violent, racist actions such as lynching in the late 1800s and early 1900s?

a)

white Americans

b)

Native Americans

c)

Mexican Americans

d)

African Americans

36.

Which muckraker wrote The Shame of the Cities?

a)

Lincoln Steffens

b)

Upton Sinclair

c)

Jacob Riis

d)

Ida Tarbell

37.

What did the Federal Reserve System do?

a)

created antitrust legislation to stop monopolies from forming

b)

made a national banking system, established in 1913, that controls the U.S. money supply and the availability of credit in the country

c)

outlawed the use of graft

d)

made it harder for elected officials to be bribed by political machines

38.
Wrote "How the other half lives" exposing conditions in the slums
a)
Susan B. Anthony
b)
Boss Tweed
c)
Jacob Riis
d)
Jane Addams