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Mr. Scott's US History BENCHMARK #1

Total questions: 78

Worksheet time: 39mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

An black leader who urged hard work and patience in the pursuit of full citizenship rights.

a)

Booker T. Washington

b)

Alice Paul

c)

W.E.B. Dubious

d)

Martin Luther King

2.

the United States President elected in 1912.

a)

Taft

b)

Wilson

c)

Roosevelt

d)

Garfield

3.

A movement that promoted the practice of never drinking alcohol.

a)

Temperance

b)

Abstinence

c)

Abolitionist

d)

Nationalist

4.

A change to the Constitution that gave Congress power to create an income tax.

a)

16th Amendment

b)

17th Amendment

c)

13th Amendment

d)

15th Amendment

5.

social activist and suffrage leader who formed the National Woman’s Party.

a)

Alice Paul

b)

Booker T. Washington

c)

Joan of Arc

d)

Stephanie F. Scott

6.

Legislation passed to control the safety of foods and medicines.

a)

Pure Food & Drug Act

b)

Temperance Movement

c)

N.A.A.C.P.

d)

Good Food Act of 1902

7.

A movement that arose in the 1890s to address social problems.

a)

Progressivism

b)

Temperance Movement

c)

Repressive Movement

d)

Green Movement

8.

Theodore Roosevelt’s program for fair government

a)

Square Deal

b)

Round Table

c)

Rectangle Deal

d)

Fat and Happy Act of 1901

9.

A community center that provided social services to the urban poor.

a)

Settlement House

b)

Open Table

c)

Urban Community Center

d)

DCAARP

10.

Which woman founded the National Association of Colored Women to help African American families and those who were less fortunate?

a)

Susan B. Anthony

b)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

c)

Alice Paul

d)

Ida B. Wells

11.

W.E.B. Du Bois was an outspoken critic of...?

a)

Ray Stannard Baker

b)

Booker T. Washington

c)

Woodrow Wilson

d)

Ida B. Wells

12.

What social problem did Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle describe?

a)

the living and working conditions in Chicago’s stockyard

b)

the ruthless business methods of John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil

c)

the conflict between California farmers and the Southern Pacific Railroad

d)

the unfair treatment of students in Mr. Scott's US History Courses

13.

Which reform did the 19th amendment enact?

a)

women’s suffrage

b)

temperance laws

c)

a ban on child labor

d)

African American men’s suffrage

14.

Southern and Eastern European immigrants who arrived in the US in a great wave between 1880 and 1920

a)

"New" Immigrants

b)

Rural to Urban Migrant

c)

Mass Culture

d)

Guided Age

15.

Belief that assimilating immigrants into American society would help make them more loyal citizens

a)

Urbanization

b)

Melting Pot

c)

Americanization

d)

Colonization

16.

Society in which people of different nationalities assimilate to form one culture

a)

Nationalization

b)

Melting Pot

c)

Nativism

d)

Urbanization

17.

Belief that native born white Americans are superior to newcomers

a)

Steerage

b)

Nativism

c)

Mass Culture

d)

Urbanization

18.

1882 Law that prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers

a)

Chinese Exclusion Act

b)

Rural Migrant Act

c)

Asian American Compact

d)

You Cant Come Here Law

19.

Expansion of cities and / or an increase in the number of people living in them

a)

Urbanization

b)

Mass Culture

c)

Americanization

d)

Tenement

20.

Term coined by Mark Twain to describe the post-Reconstruction era

a)

Next Generation

b)

Guilded Age

c)

Cold War Era

d)

Tenement

21.

Who assassinated the Archduke of the Austria-Hungary Empire?

a)

Gavrilo Princip

b)

Kaiser Wilhelm II

c)

Franz Ferdinand

d)

Lee Harvey Oswald

22.

Women helped the war effort by ______________________________.

a)

working in factories

b)

registering for the draft

c)

joining the navy

d)

digging in the front line trenches

23.

Which weapon did Germany use to terrorize the ships in the waters off the coast of Europe?

a)

airplane

b)

missles

c)

dreadnoughts

d)

u-boats

24.

African American regiment who received the “Cross of War” from the French for their bravery during WWI.

a)

Tuskegee Airmen

b)

Harlem Hell Fighters

c)

Fisk Fighters

d)

Chicago Infantry

25.

When World War I started, the United States ________________________.

a)

chose to remain neutral

b)

joined the Triple Entente

c)

declared war on Germany

d)

torpedoed the Lusitania

26.

Henry Cabot Lodge opposed joining the League of Nations because he –

a)

feared it would involve the US in foreign matters

b)

was afraid Germany might be allowed to join

c)

felt it was undemocratic

d)

thought it would cost to much money

27.

Which treaty ended World War I and created a plan for the terms of postwar Europe?

a)

Treaty of Ghent

b)

Sussex Pledge

c)

Treaty of Versailles

d)

Treaty of Paris 1918

28.

Which of the following statements is NOT true about World War I?

a)

Most fighting took place in the trenches

b)

Americans helped the Allied Powers in the final battles

c)

the revolution in Russia led them to withdraw from the war

d)

although many areas were badly damaged, only a few people were killed.

29.

Which of the following was one method in which the United States was able to raise money for the war effort?

a)

lowed taxes on goods

b)

sold liberty bonds

c)

promised land to Mexico in exchange for money

d)

charity donations

30.

The Selective Service Act required that –

a)

all men between the ages of 21 and 30 register for the draft

b)

all Americans to give p eating wheat on Mondays and eat meat on Tuesday

c)

all African American men to serve at least one year in the military

d)

all women between the ages of 21 to 30 work in the war industries

31.

Identify the hero of World War I who saved his entire platoon and captured 132 Germans.

a)

Samuel Gompers

b)

Audie Murphy

c)

Alvin York

d)

Daniel Burnham

32.

Woodrow Wilson’s plan for postwar Europe and peace for the world was called?

a)

the League of Nations

b)

Fourteen Points

c)

Yalta Conference

d)

Balfour Declaration

33.

Which of the following would best describe the battles of World War I?

a)

naval engagements

b)

air engagements

c)

open-field battles

d)

trench warfare

34.

Capitalism fueled industrialization by ___________________.

a)

requiring inventors to file patents

b)

encouraging entrepreneurs to establish businesses

c)

giving the country many natural resources

d)

ensuring that all workers received high wages

35.

Which industry most spurred economic growth and innovation in related industries?

a)

railroads

b)

agricultural

c)

oil

d)

steel

36.

In which system does one company control the businesses that make up all phases of a products development?

a)

horizontal integration

b)

vertical integration

c)

cartel management

d)

trust fund balancing

37.

Skyscrapers, railroads, and suspension bridges were all made possible by the ___________________.

a)

breakthroughs in communicatins

b)

mass production of steel

c)

development of electricity

d)

entrepreneurs

38.

Why system involves combing many firms in the same business?

a)

Social Darwinism

b)

Horizontal Integration

c)

Vertical Integration

d)

Socialism

39.

The Hayward Riot in 1886 led to the _________________________.

a)

public suspicion of labor unions

b)

decline of Wobblies

c)

arrest of Eugene Debs

d)

American Federation of Labor

40.

Who was the industrial leader for the railroad industry?

a)

John Rockerfeller

b)

Andrew Carnegie

c)

Cornelius Vanderbilt

41.

Who was the industrial leader for the oil industry?

a)

John Rockerfeller

b)

Andrew Carnegie

c)

Cornelius Vanderbilt

42.

Tax on imported goods making the price high enough to protect domestic goods from foreign competition

a)

Protective Tariff

b)

Patent

c)

Trust

d)

Laissez Faire

43.

absensce of government control over private business

a)

Laissez Faire

b)

Mass Production

c)

COrporation

d)

Trust

44.

Production of goods in large numbers through the use of machinery and assembly lines

a)

Short Production

b)

Mass Production

c)

Vertical Integration

d)

Laissez Farie

45.

Exclusive Control by one company over an entire industry

a)

Monopoly

b)

Trust

c)

Cartel

d)

Corporation

46.

The belief that certain races and nations were superior to others

a)

Social Darwinism

b)

Socialism

c)

Communism

d)

Complete Idiots

47.

1800's Law that banned any trust that restrained interstate trade or commerce

a)

Sherman Antitrust Act

b)

Railroad Diversity Act

c)

Union Monopoly Act

d)

Not the correct answer

48.

Process where employers negotiate with labor unions about hours, wages, and other working conditions

a)

Collective Bargaining

b)

Lassez Faire

c)

Union Actions

d)

Mass Production

49.

Socially conscious journalist and writers who dramatized the need for reform.

a)

Muckrakers

b)

Initiatives

c)

Jacob Riis

d)

NAWSA

50.

Movement that believed honest and efficient government could bring about social justice

a)

Social Gospel

b)

Progressivism

c)

Referendum

d)

Suffrage

51.

Author of Shame of the Cities- this book exposed corruption in urban government

a)

Lincoln Steffens

b)

Jane Adams

c)

Florence Kelley

d)

Jacob Riis

52.

Muckracking photographer and author of How the Other Half lives- exposed the conditions of the urban cities

a)

Jacob Riis

b)

Lincoln Steffens

c)

Florence Kelley

d)

Jane Adams

53.

Belief that following Christian principles could bring about social change

a)

Social Gospel

b)

Direct Primary

c)

Mr. Scott's Sermon on Sunday

d)

Referendum

54.

Campaign to end the production, sale, and use of alcohol

a)

Temperance Movement

b)

Sufferage

c)

19th Amendment

d)

Freedom of Margarita Act

55.

Helped to found the National Association of Colored Women

a)

Carrie Chapman Catt

b)

Margaret Sanger

c)

Ida B. Wells

d)

Florence Kelly

56.

The right to vote

a)

Sufferage

b)

Temperance

c)

Prohibition

d)

Initiative

57.

Social activist who led women to picket at the White House

a)

Alice Paul

b)

Carrie Catt

c)

Margaret Sanger

d)

Jane Addams

58.

Amendment that prohibits the sale, manufacture, or transportation of alcoholic beverages.

a)

18th

b)

19th

c)

20th

d)

17th

59.

Patterns of purchasing goods such as: radios, cars, vacuums, beauty products, and clothing.

a)

Consumer Revolution

b)

Prohibition

c)

Mass Production

d)

Modernism

60.

A strict belief in the literal interpretation of religious texts - mainly American Protestantism and Islam.

a)

Fundamentalist

b)

Economist

c)

Modernist

d)

Flapper

61.

The flourishing of black literary and musical culture in the Harlem section of New York City after World War I.

a)

Harlem Renaissance

b)

Modernism

c)

Chicago Artisan

d)

Illustrationism

62.

An increase in the volume of money which results in the decrease in the worth of the dollar.

a)

Inflation

b)

Deflation

c)

Devaluation

d)

Market Cap

63.

A style of dance music developed in New Orleans that is arranged for large bands during the 1920s.

a)

Jazz

b)

Blues

c)

Hip Hop

d)

Instrumental

64.

Period of 13 years (1920-1933) when the sale and transport of alcohol was illegal due to the 18th amendment.

a)

Prohibition

b)

Anti Unionism

c)

Appalachian Rebellion

d)

cant think of anything else to put...

65.

Which Robber baron / Captain of Industry was a true rags to riches story and made his fortune from the steel industry?

a)

Andrew Carnegie

b)

John Rockerfeller

c)

JP Morgan

d)

Cornelius Vanderbilt

66.

Considered to be the wealthiest man in American History. He created the Standard Oil Company.

a)

Cornelius Vanderbilt

b)

Andrew Carnegie

c)

John D. Rockefeller

d)

JP Morgan

67.

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

a)

JP Morgan

b)

Cornelius Vanderbilt

c)

John D Rockefeller

d)

Andrew Carnegie

68.

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.

a)

14th Amendment

b)

15th Amendment

c)

16th Amendment

d)

17th Amendment

69.

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."

a)

14th Amendment

b)

15th Amendment

c)

16th Amendment

d)

17th Amendment

70.

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

a)

14th Amendment

b)

15th Amendment

c)

16th Amendment

d)

17th Amendment

71.

Which city was the center of the meat industry

a)

Chicago

b)

New York

c)

Detroit

d)

Pittsburgh

72.

Which city was the hub of the steel industry

a)

Chicago

b)

New York

c)

Pittsburgh

d)

Detroit

73.

________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.

a)

Transcontinental Railroad

b)

Interstate System

c)

Telegraph

d)

Tesla Teleportation Device

74.

________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.

a)

Jacob Riis

b)

Thomas Edison

c)

Boss Tweed

d)

Samuel Gompers

75.

Of the Push / Pull factors of Immigration which is the "Pull"primary factor?

a)

Farmlands

b)

Famine

c)

Religious Freedom

d)

Jobs

76.

_______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

a)

Electricity

b)

Indoor Plumbing

c)

Railways

d)

Communications

77.

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

a)

New Immigrants

b)

Old Immigrants

78.

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

a)

New Immigrants

b)

Old Immigrants