WorksheetsReview Through the Depression
Total questions: 73
Worksheet time: 45mins
What is Nativism
hatred for/discrimination against Native Americans
sense of extreme pride for your country
support of farmers
hatred for/discrimination against immigrants
What amendment gave women the right to vote?
16
18
19
21
What was one of the biggest reasons why the American economy boomed in the 1920s?
mass production led to goods being made faster and an increase in supply
the arrest of criminals who wouldn't stop killing people
the banning of alcohol
giving women the right to vote
Which was not a cause of WW1?
militarism
isolationism
imperialism
nationalism
What British ship was sunk by German U-boats that caused America to get involved in WWI?
Lusitania
Elodie
Leonie
Luciania
Who was the President during WWI, and advocated for the U.S. to join the League of Nations?
Teddy Roosevelt
Warren G. Harding
Woodrow Wilson
William Howard Taft
How did countries utilize militarism to influence the public?
The military established martial law in public towns.
The government would glorify the military and build up their weapons.
The military would participate in community service.
People would teach military level standards in grade school.
Which of the following created a level of global competition that lead to world tension?
Nationalism
Imperialism
Militarism
Extremism
Which of the following was NOT a weapon of WW1?
Chemical Gases
Planes
Tanks
Atomic Bomb
What eventually lead to America declaring war on Germany in World War 1?
German attack on America's coastline.
German sinking of American Naval battleships at sea.
The discovery of the Zimmerman Telegram.
German spies infiltrating the White House.
This was the movement of several minorities, especially African-Americans from the south to the north in search of job opportunities.
Great Migration
Northern Migration
Southern Migration
War Economy Migration.
What is the purpose of a propaganda poster?
To advertise goods in shops
To warn people of the dangers of war
To inform people of the realities of war
To persuade people to aid the war effort
W.E.B. DuBois argued for immediate racial equality. What else was he known for?
he wrote How the Other Half Lives?
he helped found the NAACP
he called for African Americans to obtain job training
he mostly lectured in college about race issues
What did the Supreme Court case, Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) do?
it banned segregation in public schools
it legalized public segregation under the "separate but equal" doctrine
it banned segregation in public transportation
it delegated the issue of segregation to the states
In the early 1900s, many of the rich, the big businessmen, and the racially priviledged justified the inequality with the underpriviledged because the former were born "better" than others. We call this "survival of the fittest." What is the theory?
Marxism
Mercantilism
Social Darwinism
Assimilation
This muckraker revealed the unsanitary conditions of the streets of New York City caused by widespread homelessness and poverty of newcomers.
Upton Sinclair
Ida Tarbell
Thomas Nast
Jacob Riis
What did the 18th amendment do?
It allowed for the direct election of senators.
It banned the sale of alcohol.
It allowed women's suffrage
It allowed 18 year olds and over to vote
What did the 17th amendment do?
It allowed for the direct election of senators.
It banned the sale of alcohol.
It allowed women's suffrage
It allowed 18 year olds and over to vote
What did the 16th amendment do?
Congress can collect income taxes
allowed for the direct election of senators
banned the sale of alcohol
granted women's suffrage
In the cartoon above, President Theodore Roosevelt is depicted doing which of the following?
Standing guard to protect big business
Enforcing the Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Leading a government take-over of large industries
Putting an end to industries that might harm the environment
A major purpose of the Progressive movement (1900-1917) was to....
stimulate the economy
support government control of factory production
encourage immigration from southern and eastern Europe
correct the economic and social abuses of industrial society
The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair, led President Roosevelt to respond by
passing the 16th Amendment
better school nutrition programs
government regulation of the food industry
reforms in working conditions
a journalist who uncovers abuses and corruption in a society
Muckraker
Referendum
Prohibition
Progressive Movement
What president of the era was referred to as a muckraker?
William McKinley
Theodore Roosevelt
William Jennings Bryan
William Howard Taft
Which muckraker exposed the ruthless business practices of monopolists and called for the break-up of large monopolies in the book The History of Standard Oil?
Upton Sinclair
Jacob Riis
Lincoln Steffens
Ida Tarbell
Why did African Americans continue to face violence in the American South after the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments were ratified?
Lack of education in the African American community
Jim Crow laws barred African Americans from their rights
Many African Americans distrusted the government
Those amendments have nothing to do with African Americans
Who was the "King of Steel" who owned the Homestead factory?
Andrew Carnegie
John D. Rockefeller
J.P. Morgan
Eugene Debs
This legislation gave the sold cheaply government-owned land out west to small farmers
Monroe Doctrine
Spoils System
The Mexican-American War
The Homestead Act
During the Gilded Age there was a notable increase in federal support for-
the growth of big business
involvement in foreign wars
the acquisition of foreign territories
increased temperance regulations
The person who ultimately brought down Boss Tweed was a cartoonist by the name of
Benjamin Moore
Harper Bazar
Thomas Nast
W.E.B. DuBois
What political party was Roosevelt part of during his two terms as president?
Republican
Democrat
Bull Moose
I DON'T KNOW
Teddy Roosevelt was known as a "trust-buster." What does that mean?
He worked to break up small businesses
He worked with big monopolies to make them stronger
He worked to break up large monopolies
He let the companies operate without any government interference
His first presidential platform was the "Square Deal"
Wilson
Debs
Taft
Roosevelt
How can American society best be described during the Gilded Age?
The large majority of Americans are involved in business ownership and are very wealthy
There is a small number of very wealthy millionaires, however many citizens also live in poverty
Huge numbers of American citizens are immigrating to Europe to seek new opportunities
There is an equal number of wealthy and poor citizens
Laissez-Faire Economics
Economic system in which the government does not intervene in business practices
A business practice in which a single manufacturer controls all of the steps used to change raw materials into finished products
A business practice in which a company takes over all of its competitors
Theory that claims the best people in society are the ones who rise to the top
Labor Union
An organization of workers that tries to improve working conditions, wages, and benefits for its members
An organized work stoppage intended to force an employer to address union demands
A company tool to fight union demands by refusing to allow employees to enter its facilities to work
A list privately exchanged among employers, containing the names of persons to be barred from employment
Strike
An organization of workers that tries to improve working conditions, wages, and benefits for its members
An organized work stoppage intended to force an employer to address union demands
A company tool to fight union demands by refusing to allow employees to enter its facilities to work
A list privately exchanged among employers, containing the names of persons to be barred from employment
Who owned Standard Oil and is considered the wealthiest American of all time?
John D. Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
Samuel Gompers
JP Morgan
What is the name given to a company that owns all parts of an industry?
Entrepreneur
Muckraker
Innovation
Monopoly
Which historical figure is known for leading the railroad industry during the Gilded Age?
John D. Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
J.P. Morgan
Cornelius Vanderbilt
former slaves moving west
current slaves escaping north
current ranchers who live int he west
former ranchers who move to the east
The process where one person or group blends and becomes part of a larger group
cultural diffusion
amalgamation
assimilation
cultural absorption
Lack of jobs, poverty, famine, war, and persecution are all examples of:
Assimilation
Nativism
Push Factor
Pull Factor
Economic opportunities (jobs), religious freedom, improved living conditions are all:
Assimilation
Nativism
Push Factors
Pull Factors
This achievement brought people, goods and supplies, and improved communications to the Grate Plains and the West.
The telegraph
the automobile
the aeroplane
the Transcontinental railroad
Areas of land set aside for Native Americans by the US government.
Reservations
Districts
Counties
Municipalities
What amendment outlaws slavery in the United States
21st Amendment
14th Amendment
13th Amendment
15th Amendment
What amendment guarantees African American men the right to vote
21st Amendment
14th Amendment
13th Amendment
15th Amendment
What amendment gives "equal protection of the laws" to all US citizens
21st Amendment
14th Amendment
13th Amendment
15th Amendment
Which of the following brought an end to Reconstruction?
The Civil Rights Act of 1871
The Compromise of 1877
The passage of the 15th amendment
Juneteenth
The name given to a faction in the U.S. Congress which advocated emancipation of slaves before and during the Civil War, and insisted on harsh penalties for the South following the war, during the period of Reconstruction.
Democratic-Republicans
War Hawks
Emancipationists
Radical Republicans
a system of debt peonage in which a tenant farmer especially in the southern United States who is provided with credit for seed, tools, living quarters, and food, who works the land, and who receives an agreed share of the value of the crop minus charges.
Carpetbagging
Sharecropping
Cropdusting
Cattlecalling
Created in 1865, the ______ provided food, clothing, education and legal advice to newly freed slaves.
Freedman's Bureau
Tuskegee Institute
Freedom Train
Department of Reconstruction
The period after the Civil War when the former Confederate States were brought back to the Union was called ________________.
Radical Era
Memorial Day
Recostruction
Confederate States
