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Week 19 AL Studies Weekly

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following was not a new way to shop at the turn of the century?

a)

malls

b)

department stores

c)

mail-order catalogs

d)

phone ordering

2.

Why did European immigrants come to the U.S at the turn of the century?

a)

They saw movies about America.

b)

Their home countries were running out of room.

c)

They could make more money in the U.S.

d)

The U.S. had lax immigration rules.

3.

Which U.S. city had the most residents in 1910?

a)

Mobile

b)

Chicago

c)

New York City

d)

Philadelphia

4.

When was the boll weevil problem eliminated?

a)

1976

b)

1995

c)

2002

d)

2021

5.

What problems affected early American schools?

a)

unqualified teachers and a lack of quality books

b)

old school buildings and lack of funding

c)

dangerous playground equipment and lack of buses

d)

strict dress codes and lack of heating

6.

What did segregation affect?

a)

buses

b)

schools

c)

theaters

d)

all of the above

7.

Who was an important leader in the women’s rights movement?

a)

Georgia O'Keeffe

b)

Eudora Welty

c)

Susan B. Anthony

d)

Virginia Woolf

8.

Which of the following is not a primary source?

a)

letter

b)

journal entry

c)

interview

d)

encyclopedia article

9.

boll weevil

a)

to use machinery to make a lot of something quickly

b)

kept separate

c)

a type of beetle that feeds on cotton buds and bolls

d)

people who move to a new country

10.

immigrants

a)

people who move to a new country

b)

kept separate

c)

movement from one place to another 

d)

the right to vote

11.

manufacture

a)

kept separate

b)

the right to vote

c)

a type of beetle that feeds on cotton buds and bolls

d)

to use machinery to make a lot of something quickly

12.

migration

a)

kept separate

b)

movement from one place to another 

c)

changes to how a community works

d)

people who move to a new country

13.

progressives

a)

the right to vote

b)

changes to how a community works

c)

people who wanted the government to help control large businesses and industries

d)

movement from one place to another 

14.

segregated

a)

kept separate

b)

the right to vote

c)

to use machinery to make a lot of something quickly

d)

people who move to a new country

15.

social reform

a)

people who move to a new country

b)

changes to how a community works

c)

people who wanted the government to help control large businesses and industries

d)

movement from one place to another 

16.

suffrage

a)

the right to vote

b)

kept separate

c)

a type of beetle that feeds on cotton buds and bolls

d)

people who move to a new country

17.

What does "turn of the century" mean?

a)

the middle of a century

b)

a very important  moment in a century

c)

the end of one century and the beginning of another

d)

a time to look back on the past century