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West PRO Final Test

Total questions: 46

Worksheet time: 23mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following acts made land ownership among American Indians private, rather than communal?

a)

Dawes Act

b)

Pacific Railway Act

c)

Homestead Ac

d)

Morrill Act

2.

Plains Indians depended on which of the following animals for survival?

a)

cattle and horses

b)

cattle and sheep

c)

horses and rabbits

d)

horses and bison

3.

Who encouraged people to move west by printing posters and pamphlets advertising fertile and inexpensive land?

a)

cattle ranchers

b)

Sodbusters

c)

US government

d)

railroad companies

4.

What created the Great Sioux Reservation, completely free of whites?

a)

Dawes Act

b)

Treaty of Ft Laramie 1868

c)

Morrill Act

d)

Homestead Act

5.

What was completed at Promontory, Utah, linking the East and the West?

a)

Mississippi Riverboat

b)

Homestead Act

c)

Transcontinental

Railroad

d)

cattle drives

6.

The Native Americans greatest victory over the US was?

a)

Sand Creek Massacre

b)

Battle of the Little Bighorn

c)

Massacre at Wounded Knee

d)

The Fetterman Massacre

7.

This Act granted over 17 million acres of western land to the states to be used for educational purposes

a)

Morrill Act

b)

Dawes Act

c)

Homestead Act

d)

Hamilton Act

8.

These were African Americans who moved west in a mass departure.

a)

Cowboys

b)

Sodbusters

c)

Exodusters

d)

Cowgirls

9.

Which of the following granted land to small farmers if they agreed to stay on the land for five years?

a)

Dawes Act

b)

Pacific Railway Act

c)

Homestead Act

d)

Morrill Act

10.

What was the name of the attack on Black Kettle's camp, led by Col. Chivington, that resulted in the death of 200 old people, women, and children?

a)

The Cheating Massacre

b)

Wounded Knee Massacre

c)

The Fetterman Massacre

d)

Sand Creek Massacre

11.

Most Americans Indians wanted to live on reservations

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

12.

The Ghost Dance was a religious movement that spread across the South.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

13.

The Pawnee were forced to move to Indian Country after their land was given to the Sioux.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

14.

Where was the Trial of Standing Bear held?

a)

Lincoln, NE

b)

Washington DC

c)

Ft. Robinson

d)

Omaha, NE

15.

A Paiute Indian named Wocoka began a religious movement called the Ghost Dance.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

16.

Chief Standing Bear was regarded as a leader of civil rights and was the Martin Luther King, Jr. of his day.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

17.

Owning all or nearly all the businesses in an industry is called monopoly

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

18.

Which  industry had the greatest  impact on the Industrial Revolution?

a)

Cattle

b)

Entertainment

c)

Automobile

d)

Steel

19.

If someone owns all the businesses involved in each step of the manufacturing process, from raw materials to the finished product, what is it called?

a)

vertical integration

b)

horizontal integration

c)

Monopoly

d)

Entrepreneur

20.

People who start new businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so, are known as

a)

Philanthropists

b)

Financiers

c)

Stockbrokers

d)

Entrepreneurs

21.

Which man brought the Bessemer process to America and became the King of Steel

a)

Superman

b)

John D. Rockefeller

c)

Andrew Carnegie

d)

Ben Roethlisberger

22.

Which man had a monopoly on the oil business and started a foundation named after him? He gave away over a trillion dollars in today's money

a)

Bill Gates

b)

Andrew Carnegie

c)

John D. Rockefeller

d)

Warren Buffet

23.

African American men who served as soldiers in the Army in the late 1800's were known as

a)

Buffalo soldiers

b)

Cowboy soldiers

c)

soldier soldiers

d)

moose soldiers

24.

Journalists who wanted to report about poor living conditions and immoral institutions and leaders were known as muckrakers.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

25.

Who was one of the main leaders of the Temperance movement?

a)

Betsy Ross

b)

Abigail Adams

c)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

d)

Carrie Nation

26.

Which amendment gave women the right to vote, 144 years after Abigail Adams said "Remember the Ladies"?

a)

1st Amendment

b)

10th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

d)

19th Amendment

27.

The convention in 1848 to work for women's rights was called the Declaration of Sentiments.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

28.

Groups of people who work together to gain or maintain their rights in the workplace are called

a)

Unions

b)

Collective

c)

Club

d)

Fraternity

29.

Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle", was an essay/novel promoting

a)

Capitalism

b)

Progressivism

c)

Communism

d)

Socialism

30.

Used horizontal integration to control 90% of the oil business in America. Gave away over a trillion dollars in today's money.

a)

John D. Rockefeller

b)

Andrew Carnegie

c)

Cornelius Vanderbilt

d)

Warren Buffet

31.

The Rectangle Shirtwaist Company had locked doors on the factory floors, causing a great loss of lives of the workers in a fire.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

32.

The Jungle, written by Upton Sinclair, described the horrible conditions in slaughter houses.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

33.

The Bessemer process

a)

was soon replaced by a more efficient method of making steel

b)

makes steel cheaper, faster, and stronger

c)

cheaply refined oil into kerosene

d)

improved telegraph communication by adding speech

34.

Teddy Roosevelt helped create what system in the US?

a)

railroad system

b)

national parks system

c)

interstate highway system

d)

reservation system

35.

After selling his company Andrew Carnegie used his wealth by

a)

donating to entrepreneurs

b)

developing department stores

c)

donating to Mrs. MW's retirement fund

d)

donating to build libraries

36.

Supporters of women's suffrage also supported

a)

settlement houses

b)

an end to child labor

c)

higher wages and safer working conditions

d)

all of the above

37.

President T. Roosevelt protected consumers by

a)

allowing the sale and manufacturing of medicine and food containing harmful ingredients

b)

setting rates for railroads

c)

requiring federal inspection of meat shipped across state lines

d)

working with Captain America and the Hulk to smash all those picking on consumers

38.

Which document stated the 13 colonies' desire to be free from the mother country?

a)

The Constitution

b)

The Bill of Rights

c)

The Monroe Doctrine

d)

The Declaration of Independence

39.

Which document states the basic fundamental laws of the US?

a)

The Constitution

b)

The Federalist Papers

c)

The Monroe Doctrine

d)

Snapgram

40.

From which country did the US win independence?

a)

France

b)

Spain

c)

Japan

d)

Britain

41.

Which side won the Civil War?

a)

North

b)

South

c)

East

d)

West

42.

What type of government does the US have?

a)

Democracy

b)

Republic

c)

Monarchy

d)

Theocracy

43.

Who was the President during the Civil War?

a)

Washington

b)

Adams

c)

Lincoln

d)

Obama

44.

Who were the co-leaders of the expedition to explore the Louisiana Purchase?

a)

Lois and Clark

b)

Ben and Jerry

c)

Kim and Kanye

d)

Lewis and Clark

45.

The first ten amendments to the Constitution are known as ?

a)

The Bill of Rights

b)

Magna Carta

c)

The Articles of Confederation

d)

Pentagon Papers

46.

Congress passed an exclusion act, in 1882, that barred what group from entering the US

a)

Irish

b)

Chinese

c)

Japanese

d)

Germans