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Unit 3 up to Unions 2024

Total questions: 54

Worksheet time: 30mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What did political machines and people like Boss Tweed do wrong according to reformers?

a)

The machines accepted bribes in return for favors.

b)

The machines hired union workers

c)

The machines helped muckrakers

d)

The machines tried to stop immigration

2.

How did technology affect farmers?

a)

It caused overproduction

b)

It cause prices to rise

c)

It caused Underproduction

3.

William Jennings Bryan gave a speech on Bimetalism, what was the speech called?

a)

Cross of Gold

b)

Silver and Gold

c)

Silver crown

d)

Gold rules

4.

Education was important to?

a)

Booker T

and

WEB Dubois

b)

Ida B Wells

and

Jane Addams

c)

Jacob Riis

and

Upton Sinclair

d)

Ida Turbel

and

Jacob Riis

5.

Famous Muckrackers who exposed the poor working conditions of workers?

a)

Booker T

and

WEB Dubois

b)

Ida B Wells

and

Jane Addams

c)

Jacob Riis

and

Upton Sinclair

d)

Ida Turbel

and

Jacob Riis

6.

What did the Populist think of laissez-faire?

a)

It promoted competition because of no government controls

b)

They did not like it because they wanted more government controls

c)

Loved it, helped farmers produce more

d)

Hated it because the unions had more scabs

7.

How did most strikes end in the late 1800s?

a)

The government sent in troops or the police to break them up

b)

The government helped unions fix their wages

c)

The government stayed out of strikes

d)

The government declared strikes illegal

8.

What would a Union leader like best?

a)

Strikes

b)

Blacklist

c)

Collective Bargaining

d)

Lock outs

9.

What did the railroad and meatpacking industries end?

a)

Cattle Drives

b)

Railroads

c)

The need for immigrants

d)

Meat inspection act

10.

What did Americans call Southern and Eastern Europeans in the late 1800s that natives didn't like?

a)

New Immigrants

b)

Scabs

c)

Migrants

d)

Old Immigrants

11.

Wat is the purpose of the Interstate Commerce Act, the Sherman Antitrust Act, and the Clayton Antitrust Acts?

a)

Reduce monopolies and make more competition

b)

Make a national bank

c)

Protect trusts

d)

reduce the power of labor unions

12.

How did Robber Barons justify their ruthless tactics?

a)

 Social Darwinism

b)

Gospel of Wealth

c)

Anglo-saxonism

d)

Trusts

13.

During the late 1800s and early 1900s, the Carlisle Indian Schools cause Native Americans to?

a)

assimilate

b)

relocate

c)

work harder

d)

join unions

14.

What did the adoption of the Espionage and Sedition Act in 1917 do?

a)

Took away individual rights to speak out in times of war

b)

Deported spies

c)

Arrested spies

d)

Violated the 1 amendment

15.

What kind of fears are reflected in the political cartoon?

a)

communist fears of the free market

b)

fears of international terrorism

c)

fears of presidential scandals

d)

nativist fears of immigrants

16.
Attitude the government had toward big business during the late 1800s. "hands off"
a)
Laissez Faire
b)
Monopoly
c)
Trust
d)
Social Darwinism
17.
Used the Bessemer Process to make steel more efficiently and less expensive.
a)
Rockefeller
b)
Carnegie
c)
Bryan
d)
Morgan
18.
Anti-trust equals
a)
Less competition
b)
More competiton
c)
immigration laws
d)
more monopolies 
19.

What Connected the East and the West and also had a huge impact on the coal and steel industry, and also Promoted settlement in the West?

a)

Transcontinental Railroad

b)

National Road

c)

Erie Canal

d)

I-90

20.
A work stoppage by laborers in an attempt to get what they want.
a)
Lockout
b)
Strike
c)
Walkout
d)
Protest
21.
Both Andrew Carnegie and John D Rockefeller believed that the strong will survive.
a)
Social Darwinism
b)
Assimilation
c)
Gospel of Wealth
d)
Vertical Integration
22.

When one company dominates and industry with little to no competition.

a)

Monopoly

b)

Big Business

c)

Socialism

d)

Capitalism

23.
Created by Robber Barons to get around new monopolies rules and regulations.
a)
Trust
b)
Monopolies
c)
Sherman Anti Trust Act
d)
Corporation Mergers
24.
Better pay, shorter work days and better working conditions.
a)
Issues fought for by employers
b)
Issues fought for by unions
c)
Life in the 1700s
d)
Issues not seen until 1900
25.

Instead of money,How did the government provide land to R.R. companies as incentive to build more railroads to create a NATIONAL MARKET?

a)

Credit

b)

Railroad Act

c)

Dawes Act Land

d)

Land Grants

26.
Dominated the oil industry.
a)
Carnegie
b)
Rockefeller
c)
Morgan
d)
Gates
27.
Believed in vocational education in order to become self-sufficient in society.
a)
Booker T Washington
b)
WEB Dubois
c)
Ida B Wells
d)
Jane Addams
28.
Designed to encourage people to move out west for free land.
a)
Transcontinental RR
b)
Homestead Act
c)
Reservation Act
d)
Gold Rush
29.
Created by the government to break up trusts.
a)
Sherman Anti Trust Act
b)
Wilson's Monopoly Act
c)
Teddy the Trust Buster
d)
Boom Act
30.

Derogatory term used to describe a strikebreaker(immigrants and African Americans).

a)

Immigrant

b)

Scabs

c)

Scrub

d)

Slug

31.

Who was a strike breaker (scab)?

a)

Chinese

b)

Women

c)

Unskilled workers

d)

French

32.
What group was helped by The right to unionize and bargain collectively?
a)
Grange
b)
Progressives 
c)
Populist
d)
Unions
33.
How did owners feel about Labor unions?
a)
Loved it
b)
Liked it
c)
Hostile
d)
Gotta have it
34.
The Gospel of Wealth said Rich people had
a)
would set quotas 
b)
a duty to help the poor
c)
bimetallism 
d)
more money than Rockefeller 
35.

In the beginning, most strikes(Haymarket) ended in the government....

a)

using military force to end the strike

b)

siding with the strikers

c)

staying out of the conflict

d)

sending in scabs to fix the problem

36.

Why did farmers want the coinage of silver(bimetallism)?

a)

to have more money in circulation to pay their bills

b)

to get rid of the gold standard

c)

so they could not use paper money

d)

to have more credit available to buy more land

37.

Corrupt party boss that ruled Tammany Hall in New York City?

a)

Boss Tweed

b)

Boss GMan

c)

Boss DeBock

d)

Boss Yomama

38.

What conclusion can be drawn from this cartoon?

a)

Labor unions are unlikely to win against big businesses.

b)

Labor unions are often corrupt and arrogant.

c)

Large corporations are not prepared to fight against labor unions.

d)

Large corporations use tools like the strike to destroy labor unions.

39.

Why did many immigrants support political machines?

a)

They helped them move out of the cities and find real estate in the country

b)

They helped immigrants return to their native land

c)

They provided them with jobs, shelter and opportunities

d)

They spoke their native language

40.

Ethnic neighborhoods provided all of the following

a)

Common food from their homeland

b)

Ability to use their native language

c)

Ability to practice their native customs in their neighborhood

d)

Safety from Nativists

41.

Reason for Unions to dislike "SCABS"

a)

weakened unions

b)

took jobs away from union workers

c)

SCABS were robber barrons

d)

SCABS were from the farm

42.

The idea that business should be free from government regulation best represents which system?

a)

Social Darwinism

b)

capitalism

c)

laissez-faire

d)

socialism

43.

What is philanthropy?

a)

the generous donation of money to good causes

b)

science that studies how people act

c)

the ability to know things beyond what most people know

d)

the study of people and how they think

44.

What did the creation of the Railroad out West and the meat packing industry put an end to?

a)

Cattle Drives

b)

Immigrants

c)

The war

d)

The need for stores

45.
What act divided up Indian reservations into plots of land to be given to the Indian families?
a)
Hayes Act
b)
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
c)
Bland-Allison Act
d)
Dawes Act
46.

What caused Native Americans to attack the railroad and its workers?

a)

The railroad was built in the middle of their land and was destroying it.

b)

The workers started fighting with them.

c)

The railroad kept them from migrating.

d)

Native Americans didn't like trains.

47.

The Transcontinental Railroad connected the __________________________.

a)

north and south

b)

east and west

c)

north and west

d)

east and south

48.

The railroads were funded by loans and _____________.

a)

Land Grants

b)

Stock

c)

Buffalo Hides

d)

More Workers

49.

What was the Act that gave pioneers a way to buy land?

a)

The Homebound Act

b)

The Homeward Bound Act

c)

The Homestead Act

d)

The Home Sick Act

50.
This act forced Native American tribes to give up their ancestral land holdings and move to reservation lands elsewhere. 
a)
Homestead Act 
b)
Morrill Act 
c)
Dawes Act 
d)
Fort Laramie Treaty, 1868
51.

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

d)

16th Amendment

e)

17th Amendment

52.

Granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, including former slaves, and guaranteed all citizens equal protection of the laws.

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

d)

16th Amendment

e)

17th Amendment

53.

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

d)

16th Amendment

e)

17th Amendment

54.

Please identify the Most accurate CAUSE of the migration of the Exodusters.

a)

Racial Segregation

b)

The Homestead Act

c)

Manifest Destiny

d)

Nativism