WorksheetsVUS Standard 8
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 12mins
Southerners, including ____________ ___________ in particular, moved west to seek new opportunities after the Civil War.
(a)
How did the telegram, transcontinental railroad and mechanical reaper impact settlement in the west?
It promoted gender equality in the west.
It made it easier for Native Americans to relocate.
These inventions helped make western settlement more accessible for many Americans.
They made it more expensive to settle in the west.
Which pair of inventors are credited with the invention of the airplane?
The Carnegie Brothers
The Wright Brothers
The Edison Brothers
The Rockefeller Brothers
Who popularized assembly-line manufacturing?
Henry Ford
Thomas Edison
Alexander Graham Bell
Cyrus McCormick
An influential banker and businessman who bought and reorganized companies.
Andrew Carnegie
J.P. Morgan
Thomas Edison
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Established the Standard Oil Company, the largest monopoly in US history.
Cornelius Vanderbilt
John D. Rockefeller
Thomas Edison
The Wright Brothers
Which image is MOST associated with laissez-faire capitalism?
Which of the following BEST describes the concept of the American "melting pot"?
In U.S. politics, a party organization, headed by a single boss or small autocratic group, that commands enough votes to maintain political and administrative control of a city, county, or state"
Organic Machine
Mechanical Machine
Manifest Machine
Political Machine
Which of the following political cartoons is MOST associated with the Emergency Quota Act of 1921?
Which famous African American civil rights leader believed equality can be achieved through vocational education?
Du Bois W. E. B.
W. E. B. Du Bois
Booker T Dubois
Booker T. Washington
Which famous African American civil rights leader believed equality can be achieved through forcing the government to actively fight for equal rights?
Du Bois W. E. B.
W. E. B. Du Bois
Booker T Dubois
Booker T. Washington
A name for the late 180s, described the tremendous increase in wealth caused by the industrial age. Underneath this unevenly distribution of wealth were many social problems such as: high poverty rate, high crime rate and corruption in the government.
The Gilded Age
The Manifest Age
Reconstruction
Antebellum
What was NOT a cause of the Progressive Movement?
Rachel Carson's The Silent Spring
Social injustices such as child labor.
Formation of trusts and monopolies.
Political corruption like the Political Machine.
An early 20th century reform movement seeking to return control of the government to the people, to restore economic opportunities, and to correct injustices in American life.
Radical Movement
Progressive Movement
Social Justice Movement
Regressive Movement
Journalists who attempted to find corruption or wrongdoing in industries and expose it to the public.
Muckrakers
Radical Reconstructionists
Radical Democrats
Radical Republicans
An 1890 law that banned the formation of trusts and monopolies in the United States.
The Progressive Act
Sherman Antitrust Act
Meat Inspection Act
The Jungle
The ______ Amendment was passed that provided women with the right to vote.
17th
19th
20th
21st
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle directly caused which piece of U.S. legislation?
The Super Size Me Act
The Whole Foods Act
The Meat Inspection Act
The Vegan Inspection Act
Which of the following BEST describes the Homestead Act of 1862?
Southern legislation that promoted settlement in the 13 colonies.
Federal legislation that promoted settlement in the western territories.
State legislation that promoted settlement in the eastern territories.
Local legislation that promoted settlement in the 13 colonies.
