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WorksheetsAmerican Republic - Unit 6 Quiz
Total questions: 110
Worksheet time: 37mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
The Civil War was over...
a)
governmental power
b)
slavery
c)
freedom from England
2.
What are the two factors of natural resources?
a)
People
b)
Raw Materials
c)
Energy
3.
A nation's greatest resource is what?
a)
People
b)
Raw Materials
c)
Energy
4.
What percentage of immigrants were turned away on Ellis Island?
a)
< 2%
b)
5%
c)
60%
5.
What nationality did a large group of immigrants come from due to a potato blight that spread across Europe?
a)
English
b)
Irish
c)
German
6.
What nationality did a large group of immigrants come from due to overpopulation?
a)
English
b)
Irish
c)
Chinese
7.
What nationality did a large group of immigrants come from due to political and religous unrest?
a)
Irish
b)
Chinese
c)
German
8.
Immigration influenced religion in America. What religious group started their own schools because they were afraid their children would be taught Protestantism?
a)
Catholic
b)
Islam
c)
Mormon
9.
What was used for transporting people, raw materials, and manufactured goods at the end of the 19th century?
a)
Wagon
b)
Railroad
c)
Plane
10.
What helped the nation acquire an efficient railroad system?
a)
Consolidation
b)
Canals
c)
Standardization
11.
Who supported a transcontinental railroad in the 1860s?
a)
Lincoln and the Republicans
b)
Democrats
c)
Progressives
12.
What caused railroad beds to be washed away, tracks getting out of alignment, and ties rotting or breaking?
a)
Corruption over Government Grants
b)
Weather
c)
Taxpayers
13.
Who was called an Empire Builder because he proved a large high-quality railroad could be built using only private funds?
a)
William T. Kirk
b)
Alexander Graham Bell
c)
James J. Hill
14.
Who invented air brakes for trains?
a)
Thomas Edison
b)
Alexander Graham Bell
c)
George Westinghouse
15.
What did a growing number of people place above their love for God?
a)
Financial Wealth
b)
Prestigue
c)
Popularity
16.
What is the term for investment money in business?
a)
Competition
b)
Capital
c)
Profits
17.
What business structure is owned by one person?
a)
Sole Proprietorship
b)
Corporation
c)
Partnership
18.
What business structure was a new way to organize and became popular in the late 1800s?
a)
Sole Proprietorship
b)
Corporation
c)
Partnership
19.
What business structure used stockholders, banking systems, and life insurance companies to provide a source of money for growth?
a)
Sole Proprietorship
b)
Corporation
c)
Partnership
20.
This type of business structure was first formed by John D. Rockefeller, and was named Standard Oil.
a)
Corporation
b)
Incorporation
c)
Trust
21.
What were 3 effects of industrialization? (check 3)
a)
Magnified Urban Problems
b)
America's Trade Increased Greatly
c)
More Leisure Time
d)
American Family Life
22.
Which economic system allows people to freely invest and make profits on their investments?
a)
Socialism
b)
Capitalism
c)
Communism
23.
The concept "only the strong survive" became the motto of many. This concept brought into American society was know as what?
a)
Social Empowerment
b)
Social Survival
c)
Social Darwinism
24.
Most Americans believed that the best way for a capitalist economy to develop was to operate without government interference. This is known as what?
a)
State Capitalism
b)
Laissez-faire Economics
c)
Social Darwinism
25.
What was the first industry-regulating law?
a)
Interstate Commerce Act
b)
Federal Trade Commision
c)
Sherman Antitrust Act
26.
What type of entrepreneurs wanted consumers to regulate business by deciding which businesses best met consumers' needs?
a)
Political Entrepreneurs
b)
Market Entrepreneurs
c)
Social Entrepreneurs
27.
Abuses in some factories opened the door to what?
a)
organized protests
b)
lawsuits
c)
riots
28.
What riot linked unions to violence in 1886.
a)
Haymarket Square Riot
b)
Knights of Labor Riot
c)
Anarchist Riot of 1886
29.
What union allowed only skilled workers to join?
a)
Knights of Labor
b)
American Federation of Labor
c)
PA Steel Union
30.
What was a result of a free market, business competition, and consumer choice?
a)
Prosperity
b)
Recession
c)
Depression
31.
When a person chooses to give to help those in need, they are known as what?
a)
Christians
b)
Philanthropists
c)
Social Workers
32.
What became a problem as many Americans were not satisfied despite increasing wealth?
a)
Arrogance
b)
Materialism
c)
Gossip
33.
Where was the first big strike of gold found in the west?
a)
Northern Nevada
b)
Pike's Peak
c)
Black Hills, South Dakota
34.
Where was gold found in Sioux territory?
a)
Northern Nevada
b)
Pike's Peak
c)
Black Hills, South Dakota
35.
What was it called when miners at mining camps drew lots for home sites, and set up a church, a school, and other buildings?
a)
Town Ghosting
b)
Townbuilding
c)
Town Planning
36.
What is it called when every other form of money is valued in relation to gold?
a)
Gold Balance
b)
Gold Standard
c)
Gold Valuing
37.
About how long was the era of cowboys?
a)
5 years
b)
25 years
c)
50 years
38.
What was the most important factor in the growing cattle industry?
a)
People in th east wanted beef, and had the money to buy it.
b)
Cattle was numerous on the plains.
c)
Cattle was easy to corale.
39.
Cattle was sold much higher in the east than in the west.
a)
true
b)
false
40.
What was the busiest cattle trail north?
a)
Sedalia
b)
Chisholm
c)
Western
d)
Goodnight-Loving
41.
How big was the herds of cattle taken to market?
a)
1000
b)
2000
c)
5000
42.
What city became the headquarters for the cattle industry, containing the main meatpacking business?
a)
New York
b)
Chicago
c)
Memphis
43.
What did a drop in meat prices, overgrazing, water loss, horse thieves and Indians, and droughts and blizzards cause?
a)
A decline in the cattle industry.
b)
A decline in cattle drives.
c)
An increase in the meatpacking business.
44.
Grover Cleveland refused to give federal aid to the big cattle operations because he felt that it would encourage "the expectation of paternal care on the part of the Government and weakens the sturdiness of our national charter?"
a)
true
b)
false
45.
Cowboys liked the sheepmen and they easily got along.
a)
true
b)
false
46.
Who fought the homesteaders (for a time), destroying fences and threatening farmers?
a)
Cowboys
b)
Indians
c)
Outlaws
47.
What Act opened western lands for free settlement?
a)
Homestead Act of 1862
b)
Morrill Land-Grant Act of 1862
c)
The Dawes Act
48.
When lands in Oklahoma were opened to settlers at noon on April 22, 1889, these settlers claimed land illegally before time.
a)
Boomers
b)
Sooners
c)
Jumpers
49.
Oklahoma, the Cherokee Outlet--where the Indians had just been settled, gained terrirotial status in 1890 and then became a state in 1907. What was Oklahoma's nickname?
a)
Sooner State
b)
Cherokee State
c)
Outlet State
50.
What was one resource that was scarce on the plains?
a)
Grazing Land
b)
Fertile Soil
c)
Lumber
51.
Along with dust storms, prairie fires, hailstorms, tornados, and swarms of locusts and grasshoppers, what was a common hazard for prairie life?
a)
Loneliness
b)
Starvation
c)
Disease/Infection
52.
What were the the inventions which helped life on the prairie? (check all that apply)
a)
Barbed Wire
b)
Windmills
c)
Steam Ships
d)
Mechanical Grain Drills
e)
Steam Tractors
53.
There were many stories that turned in to western legends. What was one of the aids to create these legends?
a)
Dime Novels
b)
Television
c)
Theatre
54.
What was one of the reasons the treaties between the U.S. Government and the Indians failed?
a)
Americans did not like the indians.
b)
Illegal prospecting and discovery of gold and silver.
c)
Overcrowding
55.
Who said, "Many, if not most, of our Indian wars have had their origin in broken proises and acts of injustice upon our part."
a)
Rutherford B. Hays
b)
Abraham Lincoln
c)
Theodore Roosevelt
56.
What act assumed the Indian way of life no longer worked, and the US would absorb the Indians into the American way of life?
a)
Homestead Act of 1862
b)
Morrill Land-Grant Act of 1862
c)
The Dawes Act
57.
A country extending its way of life over other peoples is called what?
a)
Isolationism
b)
Imperialism
c)
Communism
58.
Some people in imperialist countries thought that they had a civilizing mission to the other nations of the world.
a)
true
b)
false
59.
What movement rejected the Bible's teaching about the inspiration of Scripture, the deity of Jesus, and even the plan of salvation.
a)
Social-Gospel Movement
b)
Protestantism
c)
Holiness Movement
60.
The social gospel confused or misled some Christians because the social gospelers were pious people who spoke of their love for Jesus.
a)
true
b)
false
61.
One argument about American imperialism is that Americans had fought for their own liberty; could they now take away the liberty of others?
a)
true
b)
false
62.
Alaska was purchased in 1867 from what country?
a)
Russia
b)
Japan
c)
China
63.
What Islands are northwest of Hawaii?
a)
Philippine
b)
Midway
c)
Caribbean
64.
How did Congress obtain Hawaii?
a)
Annexation
b)
Purchase
c)
Treaty
65.
What war was faught over Cuba in 1898?
a)
Cuban War
b)
Spanish-American War
c)
Caribbean War
66.
Why did some people want to help the Cubans?
a)
They viewed the Cubans as oppressed victims.
b)
They did not like the Spanish.
c)
They wanted to make money.
67.
What did the revolutionaries do to try and get America to go to war?
a)
fed America propaganda
b)
terrorized Cuba
c)
tried to make Spain mad
68.
What is it called when a newspaper twists stories to try and make them more exciting?
a)
Yellow Journalism
b)
Colorization
c)
Falsifed Reporting
69.
The New York Journal published a letter written by Enrique Dupuy de Lôme, what effect this this have on America?
a)
America was enraged because of the perceived insult.
b)
Spain was enraged because of the perceived insult.
c)
America wanted Cuba to become a state.
70.
What was the goal of the Teller Amendment?
a)
not to promote American imperialism
b)
to promote the idea of adding Cuba to its empire
c)
to support Spain in stopping the revolutionaries in Cuba
71.
The United States won every battle it fought in the Spanish-American War.
a)
true
b)
false
72.
It was obvious the American soldiers were well prepared for the Spanish-American war.
a)
true
b)
false
73.
In case war was declared, the American fleet in the Pacific was given orders.
a)
true
b)
false
74.
What was the group of American troops that landed near Santiago and led by Roosevelt called?
a)
Rough Riders
b)
Tough Riders
c)
Night Riders
75.
What treaty ended the war with Spain?
a)
Treaty of Paris
b)
Treaty of Cuba
c)
Treaty of the Pacific
76.
What was the major killer of American troops in the Spanish-American war?
a)
Bullets
b)
Bombs
c)
Disease
77.
Puerto Rico became a U.S. territory in 1917 with what Act?
a)
Johnes-Shafroth Act
b)
The Dawes Act
c)
Puerto Rico Act
78.
The Filipinos were happy the Americans removed their Spanish rulers.
a)
true
b)
false
79.
The Monroe Doctrine of 1823 protected Latin American neighbors.
a)
true
b)
false
80.
It took 2 months for a ship to travel around Cape Horn, so the Americans wanted what to be built?
a)
Panama Canal
b)
Transcontinental Railroad
c)
An Air Force
81.
America stayed neutral when a revolt occurred in Columbia.
a)
true
b)
false
82.
What president saw the creation of the Panama Canal?
a)
Rutherford B. Hays
b)
Abraham Lincoln
c)
Theodore Roosevelt
83.
What diplomacy replaced the "big stick" policy?
a)
Dollar Diplomacy
b)
Moral Diplomacy
c)
Treaty Diplomacy
84.
Where was the most profitable trading spots in the world in the late 1800s?
a)
Carribean
b)
Russia
c)
China
85.
Secretary of State, John Hay, in 1899 promoted what policy trying to open up China to all nations equally?
a)
Free Trade policy
b)
Open Door policy
c)
All Nations policy
86.
Some Chinese responded with a rebellion and took foreign hostages in China. This was known as what?
a)
Boxer Rebellion
b)
Native Rebellion
c)
Trade Rebellion
87.
What country became imperial in the late 19th century, likely caused in part by Commodore Matthew Perry?
a)
China
b)
Japan
c)
Taiwan
88.
What is the term for people moving to the cities?
a)
Urbanization
b)
Immigration
c)
Socialism
89.
What scientist became popular while working at the Tuskegee Institute?
a)
George Washinton Carver
b)
Booker T. Washington
c)
Theodore Roosevelt
90.
As upward mobility became an attainable goal, what class grew the most?
a)
Lower Class
b)
Middle Class
c)
Upper Class
91.
The average work week dropped from 70 hours or more to about 55 hours. What did this create for the population?
a)
A Greater Income
b)
More People
c)
More Leisure Time
92.
Entertainment became a major industry in this time.
a)
true
b)
false
93.
Immigration in America brought the arrival of many religious groups.
a)
true
b)
false
94.
Which of the following is one exmple of the several unorthodox groups that formed?
a)
Methodist
b)
Jehovah's Witnesses
c)
Catholic
95.
As Americans placed greater reliance on science, some deists moved to believe that humans cannot know whether there is a god or not. What is this called?
a)
Agnostic
b)
Atheist
c)
Pantheist
96.
Liberals pushed that Christianity needed to change to survive the modern world.
a)
true
b)
false
97.
Conservative Christianity responded to the challenges to the faith by defending the fundamental teachings of Christianity. Who were proponents of conservative Christianity?
a)
B.B. Warfield
b)
Billy Sunday
c)
George Washington Carver
d)
Booker T. Washington
98.
During the Progressive Era, coexistence of liberalism and true Christianity led to a mixture of religious goals.
a)
true
b)
false
99.
What abuse became a big problem?
a)
Alcoholism
b)
Opioids
c)
Narcotics
100.
What organization started in England whose goal was to provide wholesome activities and entertainment or young people who live in the seducing environment of big cities?
a)
YMCA
b)
Salvation Army
c)
Goodwill
101.
What country sent more foreign missionaries than any other country?
a)
U.S.
b)
England
c)
France
102.
The big question of the progressive era was who will sovle the social problems?
a)
true
b)
false
103.
What Amendment created the direct election of Senators in 1913?
a)
16th Amendment
b)
17th Amendment
c)
18th Amendment
104.
Most reforms brought by progressive were good and bad.
a)
true
b)
false
105.
Where was Teddy Roosevelt governor before he became president?
a)
New York
b)
Illinois
c)
Maryland
106.
What Amendment gave the governmnet the income tax?
a)
16th Amendment
b)
17th Amendment
c)
18th Amendment
107.
What party emerged that split the Republican party?
a)
Progressive Party
b)
Roosevelt Party
c)
Bull Steer Party
108.
Lowering the protective tarrif required another source of income for the government. What was placed in effect to compensate for lost income?
a)
Sales Tax
b)
Income Tax
c)
Luxury Tax
109.
What Amendment created the prohibition, banning the sale, manuafacture, and transportation of alcoholic beverages?
a)
17th Amendment
b)
18th Amendment
c)
19th Amendment
110.
What Amendment gave women the right to vote, women's suffrage?
a)
17th Amendment
b)
18th Amendment
c)
19th Amendment
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