WorksheetsMr. Scott's US History BENCHMARK #1
Total questions: 78
Worksheet time: 39mins
An black leader who urged hard work and patience in the pursuit of full citizenship rights.
Booker T. Washington
Alice Paul
W.E.B. Dubious
Martin Luther King
the United States President elected in 1912.
Taft
Wilson
Roosevelt
Garfield
A movement that promoted the practice of never drinking alcohol.
Temperance
Abstinence
Abolitionist
Nationalist
A change to the Constitution that gave Congress power to create an income tax.
16th Amendment
17th Amendment
13th Amendment
15th Amendment
social activist and suffrage leader who formed the National Woman’s Party.
Alice Paul
Booker T. Washington
Joan of Arc
Stephanie F. Scott
Legislation passed to control the safety of foods and medicines.
Pure Food & Drug Act
Temperance Movement
N.A.A.C.P.
Good Food Act of 1902
A movement that arose in the 1890s to address social problems.
Progressivism
Temperance Movement
Repressive Movement
Green Movement
Theodore Roosevelt’s program for fair government
Square Deal
Round Table
Rectangle Deal
Fat and Happy Act of 1901
A community center that provided social services to the urban poor.
Settlement House
Open Table
Urban Community Center
DCAARP
Which woman founded the National Association of Colored Women to help African American families and those who were less fortunate?
Susan B. Anthony
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Alice Paul
Ida B. Wells
W.E.B. Du Bois was an outspoken critic of...?
Ray Stannard Baker
Booker T. Washington
Woodrow Wilson
Ida B. Wells
What social problem did Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle describe?
the living and working conditions in Chicago’s stockyard
the ruthless business methods of John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil
the conflict between California farmers and the Southern Pacific Railroad
the unfair treatment of students in Mr. Scott's US History Courses
Which reform did the 19th amendment enact?
women’s suffrage
temperance laws
a ban on child labor
African American men’s suffrage
Southern and Eastern European immigrants who arrived in the US in a great wave between 1880 and 1920
"New" Immigrants
Rural to Urban Migrant
Mass Culture
Guided Age
Belief that assimilating immigrants into American society would help make them more loyal citizens
Urbanization
Melting Pot
Americanization
Colonization
Society in which people of different nationalities assimilate to form one culture
Nationalization
Melting Pot
Nativism
Urbanization
Belief that native born white Americans are superior to newcomers
Steerage
Nativism
Mass Culture
Urbanization
1882 Law that prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers
Chinese Exclusion Act
Rural Migrant Act
Asian American Compact
You Cant Come Here Law
Expansion of cities and / or an increase in the number of people living in them
Urbanization
Mass Culture
Americanization
Tenement
Term coined by Mark Twain to describe the post-Reconstruction era
Next Generation
Guilded Age
Cold War Era
Tenement
Who assassinated the Archduke of the Austria-Hungary Empire?
Gavrilo Princip
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Franz Ferdinand
Lee Harvey Oswald
Women helped the war effort by ______________________________.
working in factories
registering for the draft
joining the navy
digging in the front line trenches
Which weapon did Germany use to terrorize the ships in the waters off the coast of Europe?
airplane
missles
dreadnoughts
u-boats
African American regiment who received the “Cross of War” from the French for their bravery during WWI.
Tuskegee Airmen
Harlem Hell Fighters
Fisk Fighters
Chicago Infantry
When World War I started, the United States ________________________.
chose to remain neutral
joined the Triple Entente
declared war on Germany
torpedoed the Lusitania
Henry Cabot Lodge opposed joining the League of Nations because he –
feared it would involve the US in foreign matters
was afraid Germany might be allowed to join
felt it was undemocratic
thought it would cost to much money
Which treaty ended World War I and created a plan for the terms of postwar Europe?
Treaty of Ghent
Sussex Pledge
Treaty of Versailles
Treaty of Paris 1918
Which of the following statements is NOT true about World War I?
Most fighting took place in the trenches
Americans helped the Allied Powers in the final battles
the revolution in Russia led them to withdraw from the war
although many areas were badly damaged, only a few people were killed.
Which of the following was one method in which the United States was able to raise money for the war effort?
lowed taxes on goods
sold liberty bonds
promised land to Mexico in exchange for money
charity donations
The Selective Service Act required that –
all men between the ages of 21 and 30 register for the draft
all Americans to give p eating wheat on Mondays and eat meat on Tuesday
all African American men to serve at least one year in the military
all women between the ages of 21 to 30 work in the war industries
Identify the hero of World War I who saved his entire platoon and captured 132 Germans.
Samuel Gompers
Audie Murphy
Alvin York
Daniel Burnham
Woodrow Wilson’s plan for postwar Europe and peace for the world was called?
the League of Nations
Fourteen Points
Yalta Conference
Balfour Declaration
Which of the following would best describe the battles of World War I?
naval engagements
air engagements
open-field battles
trench warfare
Capitalism fueled industrialization by ___________________.
requiring inventors to file patents
encouraging entrepreneurs to establish businesses
giving the country many natural resources
ensuring that all workers received high wages
Which industry most spurred economic growth and innovation in related industries?
railroads
agricultural
oil
steel
In which system does one company control the businesses that make up all phases of a products development?
horizontal integration
vertical integration
cartel management
trust fund balancing
Skyscrapers, railroads, and suspension bridges were all made possible by the ___________________.
breakthroughs in communicatins
mass production of steel
development of electricity
entrepreneurs
Why system involves combing many firms in the same business?
Social Darwinism
Horizontal Integration
Vertical Integration
Socialism
The Hayward Riot in 1886 led to the _________________________.
public suspicion of labor unions
decline of Wobblies
arrest of Eugene Debs
American Federation of Labor
Who was the industrial leader for the railroad industry?
John Rockerfeller
Andrew Carnegie
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Who was the industrial leader for the oil industry?
John Rockerfeller
Andrew Carnegie
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Tax on imported goods making the price high enough to protect domestic goods from foreign competition
Protective Tariff
Patent
Trust
Laissez Faire
absensce of government control over private business
Laissez Faire
Mass Production
COrporation
Trust
Production of goods in large numbers through the use of machinery and assembly lines
Short Production
Mass Production
Vertical Integration
Laissez Farie
Exclusive Control by one company over an entire industry
Monopoly
Trust
Cartel
Corporation
The belief that certain races and nations were superior to others
Social Darwinism
Socialism
Communism
Complete Idiots
1800's Law that banned any trust that restrained interstate trade or commerce
Sherman Antitrust Act
Railroad Diversity Act
Union Monopoly Act
Not the correct answer
Process where employers negotiate with labor unions about hours, wages, and other working conditions
Collective Bargaining
Lassez Faire
Union Actions
Mass Production
Socially conscious journalist and writers who dramatized the need for reform.
Muckrakers
Initiatives
Jacob Riis
NAWSA
Movement that believed honest and efficient government could bring about social justice
Social Gospel
Progressivism
Referendum
Suffrage
Author of Shame of the Cities- this book exposed corruption in urban government
Lincoln Steffens
Jane Adams
Florence Kelley
Jacob Riis
Muckracking photographer and author of How the Other Half lives- exposed the conditions of the urban cities
Jacob Riis
Lincoln Steffens
Florence Kelley
Jane Adams
Belief that following Christian principles could bring about social change
Social Gospel
Direct Primary
Mr. Scott's Sermon on Sunday
Referendum
Campaign to end the production, sale, and use of alcohol
Temperance Movement
Sufferage
19th Amendment
Freedom of Margarita Act
Helped to found the National Association of Colored Women
Carrie Chapman Catt
Margaret Sanger
Ida B. Wells
Florence Kelly
The right to vote
Sufferage
Temperance
Prohibition
Initiative
Social activist who led women to picket at the White House
Alice Paul
Carrie Catt
Margaret Sanger
Jane Addams
Amendment that prohibits the sale, manufacture, or transportation of alcoholic beverages.
18th
19th
20th
17th
Patterns of purchasing goods such as: radios, cars, vacuums, beauty products, and clothing.
Consumer Revolution
Prohibition
Mass Production
Modernism
A strict belief in the literal interpretation of religious texts - mainly American Protestantism and Islam.
Fundamentalist
Economist
Modernist
Flapper
The flourishing of black literary and musical culture in the Harlem section of New York City after World War I.
Harlem Renaissance
Modernism
Chicago Artisan
Illustrationism
An increase in the volume of money which results in the decrease in the worth of the dollar.
Inflation
Deflation
Devaluation
Market Cap
A style of dance music developed in New Orleans that is arranged for large bands during the 1920s.
Jazz
Blues
Hip Hop
Instrumental
Period of 13 years (1920-1933) when the sale and transport of alcohol was illegal due to the 18th amendment.
Prohibition
Anti Unionism
Appalachian Rebellion
cant think of anything else to put...
Which Robber baron / Captain of Industry was a true rags to riches story and made his fortune from the steel industry?
Andrew Carnegie
John Rockerfeller
JP Morgan
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Considered to be the wealthiest man in American History. He created the Standard Oil Company.
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Andrew Carnegie
John D. Rockefeller
JP Morgan
This tycoon was a shipping and railroad tycoon who built himself up from nothing to become one of the wealthiest individuals in 19th century America
JP Morgan
Cornelius Vanderbilt
John D Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
16th Amendment
17th Amendment
Granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
16th Amendment
17th Amendment
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
16th Amendment
17th Amendment
Which city was the center of the meat industry
Chicago
New York
Detroit
Pittsburgh
Which city was the hub of the steel industry
Chicago
New York
Pittsburgh
Detroit
________completed in 1869 when the Union Pacific Railroad started building in Omaha Nebraska and headed west as the Central Pacific started building in Sacramento California heading east. This tied the nation together thus intensifying settlement growth, economic development and Industrialization.
Transcontinental Railroad
Interstate System
Telegraph
Tesla Teleportation Device
________was the first and longest-serving president of the American Federation of Labor (AFL); it is to him, as much as to anyone else, that the American labor movement owes its structure and characteristic strategies. He favored collective bargaining over violent strikes and boycotts.
Jacob Riis
Thomas Edison
Boss Tweed
Samuel Gompers
Of the Push / Pull factors of Immigration which is the "Pull"primary factor?
Farmlands
Famine
Religious Freedom
Jobs
_______allowed for the increased number of hours in the work day, increased safety as it reduced the number of fires from gas and oil lamps, increased automation in factories
Electricity
Indoor Plumbing
Railways
Communications
From northern and western Europe (Irish, Germans, Scandinavians) - most assimilated easily (exceptions were Irish)-many moved west to obtain land for farming and helped create meatpacking and brewing industries in the Midwest
New Immigrants
Old Immigrants
From eastern and southern Europe (Poland, Hungary, Italy, Russia) and Asian (China and Japan) - did not assimilate easily- kept own languages, customs, traditions- lived in ethnic neighborhoods (enclaves) in the major cities and took work in factories and meat packing plants- high numbers were Catholic and Jewish
New Immigrants
Old Immigrants
