WorksheetsCh3/4 Birth of Modern America/Imperialism
Total questions: 33
Worksheet time: 19mins
Mark all that are reasons for American moving West after the Civil War.
Cheap land
Gold/Silver discovered
overcrowding in cities
escaping persecution
This law encouraged American to settle the Great Plains as farmers.
Homestead Act
Dawes Act
Pacific Railway Act
Mark all that are reasons for Inustrialization.
lots of natural resources
government supported buisness
large population provided plenty of workers
labor unions
What term is when the government let businesses do whatever they wanted to become successful.
Laissez-faire
free enterprise
labor union
Entrepreneur
This person invented the lightbulb and developed the way of our electrical system.
Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Edison
George Washington Carver
Samuel Gompers
Organization owned by many people but treated like a single person.
industry
corporations
tenements
buisness
Buying out the suppliers that help you make your product
vertical intergartion
horizontal intergration
corporations
Laissez-faire
McDonalds buying Burger King is an example of which buisness practice?
vertical intergration
horizontal intergration
Having complete control over an industry’s production, wages, and prices is called?
monopoly
verical intergration
robber barron
horizontal intergration
Mark all the men that were known as "robber barrons" during the late 1800s.
Andrew Carnegie
John Rockefeller
JP Morgan
Samuel Gompers
Thomas Edison
Poor working condiotions was the main reason for the creation of
unions
corporations
stocks
monopolies
This man was one of the leaders of the first union. He organized strikes of employees to get better conditions.
Andrew Carnegie
John Rockefeller
JP Morgan
Samuel Gompers
Thomas Edison
The main and biggest immigration processing location in N.Y.C.
Ellis Island
Angels Island
tenements
Native Island
Poorly ventilated, bad plumbing, no running water, no electricity where multiple families live in one small apartment.
Tenements
unions
slums
corporations
This took advantage of the problems immigrants were having in cities by exploiting them.
Political machine
corporations
unions
tenements
The most famous political machine boss of Gilded Age.
William Tweed
Thomas Edison
George Washington Carver
Samuel Gompers
Getting money through dishonest or questionable means
graft
unions
corporations
free market
The time period in America: where is was an era of serious social problems hidden by a thin layer of gold
Gilded Age
Middle Age
Industrial Age
Golden Age
What two factors led to the rise of leisure activities in the late 1800s.
more people with jobs and extra money to spend
overcrowded cities
more free time of workers
more immigration to the U.S.
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...
Social Gospel
Social Darwinism
settlement houses
populism
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?
The Grange
Social Darwinism
Populism
segregation
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)
unions
Social Darwinism
Populism
segregation
What Supreme Court case establishe dthat segregation is legal in the U.S. as long as it is "seperate but equal".
Marbury v Madison
Plessy v Furgeson
Brown v Board of Education
Dred Scott v Sanford
Which of the following was not used to prevent blacks from voting.
Poll Taxes
Literacy Tests
"Grandfather" Clause
Jim Crow Laws
Who are the two African American founders of the NAACP, that pushed for anti-descrimination laws in the U.S.
W.E.B. Du Bois
Ida B. Wells
George Washington Carver
Jacob Riis
What are the reasons American decided to Imperialize?
military strength
new markets for trade
Belief in cultural superiority
Mark all territories that were claimed or annexed by the U.S. during American Imperialism
Hawaii
Philippines
Puerto Rico
Guam
Cuba
The major crop of Hawaii that the U.S. overthrew the Queen to control.
tabacco
sugar
cotton
rice
Exaggerated or even made up stories to attract readers is called
journalism
Yellow Journalism
Orange Journalism
Fake News
When an imperial power allows local rulers to stay in control and provide protection against rebellions and invaders.
Imperialism
protectorate
Anglo-Saxionism
Pan-Americanism
What event is said to be the reason for America's involvement in the Spanish-American War?
Yellow Journalism
Sinking of the USS Maine
Cuban Revolution against Spain
Boxer Rebellion
The American belief that all Imperial countries should have equal access to all markets in China is called
Sphere of Influence
Dollar Diplomacy
Open Door Policy
Boxer Rebellion
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"
William Taft
Teddy Roosevelt
James Monroe
Woodrow Wilson
