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WorksheetsUnit 3 up to Unions 2024
Total questions: 54
Worksheet time: 30mins
What did political machines and people like Boss Tweed do wrong according to reformers?
The machines accepted bribes in return for favors.
The machines hired union workers
The machines helped muckrakers
The machines tried to stop immigration
How did technology affect farmers?
It caused overproduction
It cause prices to rise
It caused Underproduction
William Jennings Bryan gave a speech on Bimetalism, what was the speech called?
Cross of Gold
Silver and Gold
Silver crown
Gold rules
Education was important to?
Booker T
and
WEB Dubois
Ida B Wells
and
Jane Addams
Jacob Riis
and
Upton Sinclair
Ida Turbel
and
Jacob Riis
Famous Muckrackers who exposed the poor working conditions of workers?
Booker T
and
WEB Dubois
Ida B Wells
and
Jane Addams
Jacob Riis
and
Upton Sinclair
Ida Turbel
and
Jacob Riis
What did the Populist think of laissez-faire?
It promoted competition because of no government controls
They did not like it because they wanted more government controls
Loved it, helped farmers produce more
Hated it because the unions had more scabs
How did most strikes end in the late 1800s?
The government sent in troops or the police to break them up
The government helped unions fix their wages
The government stayed out of strikes
The government declared strikes illegal
What would a Union leader like best?
Strikes
Blacklist
Collective Bargaining
Lock outs
What did the railroad and meatpacking industries end?
Cattle Drives
Railroads
The need for immigrants
Meat inspection act
What did Americans call Southern and Eastern Europeans in the late 1800s that natives didn't like?
New Immigrants
Scabs
Migrants
Old Immigrants
Wat is the purpose of the Interstate Commerce Act, the Sherman Antitrust Act, and the Clayton Antitrust Acts?
Reduce monopolies and make more competition
Make a national bank
Protect trusts
reduce the power of labor unions
How did Robber Barons justify their ruthless tactics?
Social Darwinism
Gospel of Wealth
Anglo-saxonism
Trusts
During the late 1800s and early 1900s, the Carlisle Indian Schools cause Native Americans to?
assimilate
relocate
work harder
join unions
What did the adoption of the Espionage and Sedition Act in 1917 do?
Took away individual rights to speak out in times of war
Deported spies
Arrested spies
Violated the 1 amendment
What kind of fears are reflected in the political cartoon?
communist fears of the free market
fears of international terrorism
fears of presidential scandals
nativist fears of immigrants
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?
Transcontinental Railroad
National Road
Erie Canal
I-90
When one company dominates and industry with little to no competition.
Monopoly
Big Business
Socialism
Capitalism
Instead of money,How did the government provide land to R.R. companies as incentive to build more railroads to create a NATIONAL MARKET?
Credit
Railroad Act
Dawes Act Land
Land Grants
Derogatory term used to describe a strikebreaker(immigrants and African Americans).
Immigrant
Scabs
Scrub
Slug
Who was a strike breaker (scab)?
Chinese
Women
Unskilled workers
French
In the beginning, most strikes(Haymarket) ended in the government....
using military force to end the strike
siding with the strikers
staying out of the conflict
sending in scabs to fix the problem
Why did farmers want the coinage of silver(bimetallism)?
to have more money in circulation to pay their bills
to get rid of the gold standard
so they could not use paper money
to have more credit available to buy more land
Corrupt party boss that ruled Tammany Hall in New York City?
Boss Tweed
Boss GMan
Boss DeBock
Boss Yomama
What conclusion can be drawn from this cartoon?
Labor unions are unlikely to win against big businesses.
Labor unions are often corrupt and arrogant.
Large corporations are not prepared to fight against labor unions.
Large corporations use tools like the strike to destroy labor unions.
Why did many immigrants support political machines?
They helped them move out of the cities and find real estate in the country
They helped immigrants return to their native land
They provided them with jobs, shelter and opportunities
They spoke their native language
Ethnic neighborhoods provided all of the following
Common food from their homeland
Ability to use their native language
Ability to practice their native customs in their neighborhood
Safety from Nativists
Reason for Unions to dislike "SCABS"
weakened unions
took jobs away from union workers
SCABS were robber barrons
SCABS were from the farm
The idea that business should be free from government regulation best represents which system?
Social Darwinism
capitalism
laissez-faire
socialism
What is philanthropy?
the generous donation of money to good causes
science that studies how people act
the ability to know things beyond what most people know
the study of people and how they think
What did the creation of the Railroad out West and the meat packing industry put an end to?
Cattle Drives
Immigrants
The war
The need for stores
What caused Native Americans to attack the railroad and its workers?
The railroad was built in the middle of their land and was destroying it.
The workers started fighting with them.
The railroad kept them from migrating.
Native Americans didn't like trains.
The Transcontinental Railroad connected the __________________________.
north and south
east and west
north and west
east and south
The railroads were funded by loans and _____________.
Land Grants
Stock
Buffalo Hides
More Workers
What was the Act that gave pioneers a way to buy land?
The Homebound Act
The Homeward Bound Act
The Homestead Act
The Home Sick Act
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.
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
16th Amendment
17th Amendment
Granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, including former slaves, and guaranteed all citizens equal protection of the laws.
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
16th Amendment
17th Amendment
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.
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
16th Amendment
17th Amendment
Please identify the Most accurate CAUSE of the migration of the Exodusters.
Racial Segregation
The Homestead Act
Manifest Destiny
Nativism
