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WorksheetsUnit 3 & 4 Test Review
Total questions: 38
Worksheet time: 31mins
Which president wanted to control businesses and conserve the environment?
William McKinley
Abraham Lincoln
Theodore Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
During the early 1900s, the term "muckrakers" was used to describe-
pacifists who demonstrated against war
Politicians who criticized Progressive Era presidents
Writers who exposed the evil in American society
Newspaper columnists who reported in celebrities
The Progressive Era was a time during which:
the Industrial Age began.
intense social and political changes were made to improve society.
wealthy company owners started taking advantage of their workers.
the government allowed the company owners to take advantage of their workers.
Who was the first Progressive President?
President Lincoln
President McKinley
President Teddy Roosevelt
President Franklin Roosevelt
Which of the following was NOT one of the amendments that were passed during the Progressive Era?
19th Amendment: Gave women the right to vote.
16th Amendment: The Federal Income Tax
18th Amendment: The prohibition of alcohol
15th Amendment: Gave African-American men the right to vote.
Tests given to African Americans at the voting polls.
Literacy Tests
Voting tests
Government Tests
Poll tests
What areas were racially segregated?
Schools
Theaters
Public Transportation
All of these answers
Which word means "the right to vote"?
Democracy
Elections
Suffrage
Rights
What did Homer Plessy do that got him arrested?
Sat in the white only part of the bus.
Took a seat in the white only car of a train.
Sat at a white only section of a lunch counter.
None of the above
What is a synonym for "urban"?
city
famland
nationality
population
What Supreme Court case ruled "separate but equal" was legal?
Texas vs. Johnson
Tinker vs. DesMoines
Brown vs. Board of Education
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Where did most of the immigrants come from that entered the U.S. through Ellis Island?
eastern and southern Europe
South Africa
West Asia
Latin America
Formation of national labor unions in the late 1800's was mainly because of
passage of laws that supported workers
laws restricting immigration
poor working conditions and low wages
economic depression that led to high unemployment
People emigrated to the USA because of
political instability
restrictive religious laws
deteriorating economic conditions
deteriorating climate conditions
You are eligible to vote if you grandfather was eligible to vote under this clause.
Grandfather clause
Father Clause
Grandmother Clause
Santa Clause
What processing station did immigrants go through on the WEST coast?
Ellis Island
Angel Island
Devil Island
Alcatraz
An organization of workers dedicated to protecting members' interests and improving wages, hours and working conditions for all.
Labor Union
Workers Rights
Worker Strikes
Collective Bargaining
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?
Asian Americans
Native Americans
African Americans
Mexican Americans
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.
16th
17th
18th
19th
Laws like the Meat Inspection Act, Pure Food and Drug Act, and the Federal Reserve Act were created for the common purpose of ___________?
to protect the nation's corporations
to improve conditions for recent immigrants to the U.S.
to protect the American public from corporate abuse
to allow corporations to grow which would help the U.S. economy
What is the practice of favoring native-born people over foreign-born people?
urbanization
assimilation
nativism
militarism
Which group of Americans were targeted with violent, racist actions such as lynching in the late 1800s and early 1900s?
white Americans
Native Americans
Mexican Americans
African Americans
Which muckraker wrote The Shame of the Cities?
Lincoln Steffens
Upton Sinclair
Jacob Riis
Ida Tarbell
What did the Federal Reserve System do?
created antitrust legislation to stop monopolies from forming
made a national banking system, established in 1913, that controls the U.S. money supply and the availability of credit in the country
outlawed the use of graft
made it harder for elected officials to be bribed by political machines
