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Ch3/4 Birth of Modern America/Imperialism

Total questions: 33

Worksheet time: 19mins

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Class
Date
1.

Mark all that are reasons for American moving West after the Civil War.

a)

Cheap land

b)

Gold/Silver discovered

c)

overcrowding in cities

d)

escaping persecution

2.

This law encouraged American to settle the Great Plains as farmers.

a)

Homestead Act

b)

Dawes Act

c)

Pacific Railway Act

3.

Mark all that are reasons for Inustrialization.

a)

lots of natural resources

b)

government supported buisness

c)

large population provided plenty of workers

d)

labor unions

4.

What term is when the government let businesses do whatever they wanted to become successful.

a)

Laissez-faire

b)

free enterprise

c)

labor union

d)

Entrepreneur

5.

This person invented the lightbulb and developed the way of our electrical system.

a)

Alexander Graham Bell

b)

Thomas Edison

c)

George Washington Carver

d)

Samuel Gompers

6.

Organization owned by many people but treated like a single person.

a)

industry

b)

corporations

c)

tenements

d)

buisness

7.

Buying out the suppliers that help you make your product

a)

vertical intergartion

b)

horizontal intergration

c)

corporations

d)

Laissez-faire

8.

McDonalds buying Burger King is an example of which buisness practice?

a)

vertical intergration

b)

horizontal intergration

9.

Having complete control over an industry’s production, wages, and prices is called?

a)

monopoly

b)

verical intergration

c)

robber barron

d)

horizontal intergration

10.

Mark all the men that were known as "robber barrons" during the late 1800s.

a)

Andrew Carnegie

b)

John Rockefeller

c)

JP Morgan

d)

Samuel Gompers

e)

Thomas Edison

11.

Poor working condiotions was the main reason for the creation of

a)

unions

b)

corporations

c)

stocks

d)

monopolies

12.

This man was one of the leaders of the first union. He organized strikes of employees to get better conditions.

a)

Andrew Carnegie

b)

John Rockefeller

c)

JP Morgan

d)

Samuel Gompers

e)

Thomas Edison

13.

The main and biggest immigration processing location in N.Y.C.

a)

Ellis Island

b)

Angels Island

c)

tenements

d)

Native Island

14.

Poorly ventilated, bad plumbing, no running water, no electricity where multiple families live in one small apartment.

a)

Tenements

b)

unions

c)

slums

d)

corporations

15.

This took advantage of the problems immigrants were having in cities by exploiting them.

a)

Political machine

b)

corporations

c)

unions

d)

tenements

16.

The most famous political machine boss of Gilded Age.

a)

William Tweed

b)

Thomas Edison

c)

George Washington Carver

d)

Samuel Gompers

17.

Getting money through dishonest or questionable means

a)

graft

b)

unions

c)

corporations

d)

free market

18.

The time period in America: where is was an era of serious social problems hidden by a thin layer of gold

a)

Gilded Age

b)

Middle Age

c)

Industrial Age

d)

Golden Age

19.

What two factors led to the rise of leisure activities in the late 1800s.

a)

more people with jobs and extra money to spend

b)

overcrowded cities

c)

more free time of workers

d)

more immigration to the U.S.

20.

The belief that the government should not be involved in the market, that way, only the best companies can survive, survival of the fittest. This belief is called...

a)

Social Gospel

b)

Social Darwinism

c)

settlement houses

d)

populism

21.

The movement where farmers living out west were being taken advantage of so the farmers banded together to form a political and business movement to gain more power political power for farmers was called what?

a)

The Grange

b)

Social Darwinism

c)

Populism

d)

segregation

22.

This political movement wanted change in the government. They wanted the government to protect them from being exploited and taken advantage of by big business. (an end of laissez faire)

a)

unions

b)

Social Darwinism

c)

Populism

d)

segregation

23.

What Supreme Court case establishe dthat segregation is legal in the U.S. as long as it is "seperate but equal".

a)

Marbury v Madison

b)

Plessy v Furgeson

c)

Brown v Board of Education

d)

Dred Scott v Sanford

24.

Which of the following was not used to prevent blacks from voting.

a)

Poll Taxes

b)

Literacy Tests

c)

"Grandfather" Clause

d)

Jim Crow Laws

25.

Who are the two African American founders of the NAACP, that pushed for anti-descrimination laws in the U.S.

a)

W.E.B. Du Bois

b)

Ida B. Wells

c)

George Washington Carver

d)

Jacob Riis

26.

What are the reasons American decided to Imperialize?

a)

military strength

b)

new markets for trade

c)

Belief in cultural superiority

27.

Mark all territories that were claimed or annexed by the U.S. during American Imperialism

a)

Hawaii

b)

Philippines

c)

Puerto Rico

d)

Guam

e)

Cuba

28.

The major crop of Hawaii that the U.S. overthrew the Queen to control.

a)

tabacco

b)

sugar

c)

cotton

d)

rice

29.

Exaggerated or even made up stories to attract readers is called

a)

journalism

b)

Yellow Journalism

c)

Orange Journalism

d)

Fake News

30.

When an imperial power allows local rulers to stay in control and provide protection against rebellions and invaders.

a)

Imperialism

b)

protectorate

c)

Anglo-Saxionism

d)

Pan-Americanism

31.

What event is said to be the reason for America's involvement in the Spanish-American War?

a)

Yellow Journalism

b)

Sinking of the USS Maine

c)

Cuban Revolution against Spain

d)

Boxer Rebellion

32.

The American belief that all Imperial countries should have equal access to all markets in China is called

a)

Sphere of Influence

b)

Dollar Diplomacy

c)

Open Door Policy

d)

Boxer Rebellion

33.

Which president stated a spart of his Big Stick Policy..."US would use diplomacy and peace as often as possible, but would also fight if necessary"

a)

William Taft

b)

Teddy Roosevelt

c)

James Monroe

d)

Woodrow Wilson