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Industrial Revolution

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 25mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Inventor that made the first incandescent lightbulb and founded a lab in Menlo Park

a)

Wright Brothers

b)

Alexander Graham Bell

c)

Thomas Edison

d)

Rockefeller

2.

Inventor of the first telephone

a)

Thomas Edison

b)

Alexander Graham Bell

c)

Wright Brother

d)

Teddy Roosevelt

3.

Pioneered the field of aviation and was the first to build an airplane and fly it in Kitty Hawk, NC

a)

Thomas Edison

b)

Alexander Graham Bell

c)

Woodrow Wilson

d)

Wright Brothers

4.

Railroad investor that capitalized on low steel prices to build a railroad empire

a)

Cornelius Vanderbilt

b)

Andrew Carnegie

c)

John D Rockefeller

d)

W.E.B DuBois

5.

Prominent African-American scholar that helped form the N.A.A.C.P.

a)

Chief Joseph

b)

Sitting Bull

c)

W.E.B. DuBois

d)

Upton SInclair

6.

Built the largest oil company in the world and had a monopoly. Founder of Standard Oil Company

a)

Andrew Carnegie

b)

Cornelius Vanderbilt

c)

Upton Sinclair

d)

John D Rockefeller

7.

Man elected President in the election of 1912

a)

Teddy Roosevelt

b)

Woodrow Wilson

c)

William Howard Taft

d)

Eugene Debs

8.

Built the largest Steel Company in the world. Bought supplies in bulk, gained a monopoly.

a)

John D Rockefeller

b)

Andrew Carnegie

c)

Cornelius Vanderbilt

d)

Thomas Edison

9.

Conservationist and "trust buster", this man became President and saw an opportunity for progressive reform.

a)

Teddy Roosevelt

b)

William Howard Taft

c)

Woodrow Wilson

d)

John D Rockefeller

10.

Successor to the Presidency after Roosevelt. Shifted away from Progressive movement Got stuck in bathtub.

a)

Teddy Roosevelt

b)

Woodrow Wilson

c)

Thomas Edison

d)

William Howard Taft

11.

Native Americans that fled US troops to Canada, "Will fight no more"

a)

Sitting Bull

b)

W.E.B. DuBois

c)

Chief Joseph

d)

Alexander Graham Bell

12.

Native American who fought at the Battle of Little Bighorn, leader of the Lakota Sioux

a)

Chief Joseph

b)

W.E.B DuBois

c)

Upton Sinclair

d)

Sitting Bull

13.

Writer of the novel, "The Jungle", who exposed the meatpacking industry

a)

Jacob Riis

b)

Teddy Roosevelt

c)

Upton Sinclair

d)

Woodrow Wilson

14.

Laws set up in the South to keep African Americans and whites segregated

a)

Homestead Act

b)

Plessy v. Ferguson

c)

Grandfather Clause

d)

Jim Crow Laws/Black Codes

15.

Means "free to do", in reference to the economy

a)

Sans Coulatte

b)

Laissez-Faire

c)

Sic Semper Tyrannous

d)

E Pluribus Unum

16.

Party that ran on reforms that should be made in society

a)

Republican Party

b)

Democrat Party

c)

Know Nothings

d)

Progressive Party

17.

Court case that made segregation legal if they were, "separate but equal"

a)

Plessy v. Ferguson

b)

Gideon v, Wainwright

c)

Miranda v. Arizona

d)

Gibbons v. Ogden

18.

Belief the strongest will survive in society or the "survival of the fittest" in society

a)

Bessemer Process

b)

Social Darwinism

c)

Square Deal

d)

Bully Pulpit

19.

Teddy Roosevelt used the presidency as this an attempt to get the issues he felt important to the people

a)

Bessemer Process

b)

Bully Pulpit

c)

Social Darwinsim

d)

Square Deal

20.

Much more effective and cheaper way to manufacture steel

a)

Social Darwinism

b)

Square Deal

c)

Bully Pulpit

d)

Bessemer Process

21.

Platform of Teddy Roosevelt, where "each American would get nothing more, and nothing less"

a)

Bessemer Process

b)

Square Deal

c)

Social Darwinism

d)

Bully Pulpit

22.

Gave land to anyone who would settle the West for 5 years

(a)  

23.

Island in NYC where immigrants were brought to enter the US

(a)  

24.

Banned the sale, manufacturing, and distribution of alcohol

(a)  

25.

Limited Chinese immigration and forbade the Chinese from being citizens

(a)