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Industrialization/Immigration/Urbanization/Segregation VUS.8 a-f

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
I helped form the NAACP to provide equality for African Americans.
a)
W.E.B. DuBois
b)
Booker T. Washington
c)
Ida B. Wells
d)
Samuel Gompers
2.
The Homestead Act of 1862 provided this to settlers who moved west. 
a)
Money
b)
Water
c)
Land
d)
golf
3.
What did I invent/improve?
a)
Light bulb
b)
Steel Process
c)
Telephone
d)
Assembly-line manufacturing
4.
This event was the movement of African American from the South, Northward in search of a better life
a)
Great Migration
b)
Manifest Destiny
c)
Reconstruction
d)
Homestead Act
5.
The Transcontinental Railroad was mainly built with the help of which minority group?
a)
Hispanics
b)
African Americans
c)
Native American
d)
Chinese
6.
This court case ruled segregation was legal as long as both parties have equal services. 
a)
 McCulloch v. Maryland,
b)
Marbury v. Madison
c)
Plessy v. Ferguson
d)
Gibbons v. Ogden 
7.
In what industry did this man make his fortune?
a)
Steel
b)
Oil
c)
Railroads
d)
Finance
8.
Causes of the Progressive Movement include dangerous working conditions – (all of the following) except:
a)
Child labor
b)
Long hours
c)
High wages
d)
No job security
9.
Women’s suffrage –
-Was a forerunner of modern protest movement
– Benefited from strong leadership Encouraged women to enter the labor force during World War I
 – Resulted in the ____ Amendment to the Constitution 
a)
13th
b)
15th
c)
17th
d)
19th
10.
Direct election of U.S. Senators was established in the __ Amendment 
a)
13th
b)
15th
c)
17th
d)
19th
11.

Changing their names, cutting their hair, forcing them to adopt Christianity, requiring them to learn English, etc. These are all examples of what pushed on many Immigrants, but especially the Indians (Native Americans)?

a)

Assimilation

b)

Nativism

c)

Protectionism

d)

Temperance

12.
Which of the following was NOT a problem labor unions fought for?
a)
shorter hours
b)
lower pay
c)
no child labor
d)
safer working conditions
13.
Which law expanded competition and eliminated trusts and monopolies?
a)
Interstate Commerce Act 
b)
Homestead Act
c)
Sherman AntiTrust Act
d)
Dawes Act
14.
Which of the following believed equality could be achieved through vocational education and accepted social segregation?
a)
W.E.B. DuBois
b)
Frederick Douglass
c)
Booker T. Washington
d)
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
15.

Which of the following BEST describes the concept of the American "melting pot"?

a)
b)
16.

Which image is MOST associated with laissez-faire capitalism?

a)
b)
17.

Which of the following political cartoons is MOST associated with the Emergency Quota Act of 1921?

a)
b)
18.

Journalists who attempted to find corruption or wrongdoing in industries and expose it to the public.

a)

Muckrakers

b)

Radical Reconstructionists

c)

Radical Democrats

d)

Radical Republicans

19.

Which of these laws limited immigration to the United States?

a)

Plessy v Ferguson

b)

Anti Immigration Act

c)

Emergency Quota Act of 1921

d)

Jim Crow laws

20.
What was another name for the laws passed in the South after the Civil War forcing separation of the races in public places.
a)
Jim Crow
b)
Jane Crow
c)
Black Codes
d)
Integration Laws