Worksheets*UPDATED* Chapter 10 U.S. History Practice
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 12mins
What potentially motivated Ida Tarbell to target J.D. Rockefeller in her muckraking?
Her father was a small oil business owner whose business was ruined by Rockefeller
She wanted Rockefeller to share his wealth with the less fortunate
Rockefeller interfered with women's suffrage and she wanted women to vote
She wanted to enter the oil industry and could not succeed against Rockefeller's powerful oil regime
Which act is the reason that the processed groceries we purchase come with labels that tell us their ingredients?
Meat Inspection Act
Pure Food and Drug Act
Federal Reserve Act
Antitrust laws
Who was a key figure in the women's suffrage movement?
Susan B. Anthony
Ida Tarbell
Florence Kelley
Jane Addams
Which president is associated with the Progressive Era and the Square Deal?
Woodrow Wilson
Theodore Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Howard Taft
Which of the following are examples of disenfranchisement? (multiple solutions)
literacy tests
secret ballots
poll taxes
slave codes
Based on the excerpt, Homer Plessy was only ______ Black; however, that was enough to make it illegal for him to sit with Whites.
7/8ths
1/8th
1/2
visually
During the Progressive Era, to increase the options for public participation in the democracy process, progressives created:
Referendums, Initiatives, Recalls, and Secret Ballots
Literacy Tests, Poll Taxes, Grandfather Clauses and White Primaries
Referendums, Initiatives, Recalls, and White Primaries
Referendums, Women's Suffrage, Initiatives, and Write-In Ballots
President Theodore Roosevelt's position on trusts is: (multiple solutions)
all trusts are bad and must be broken up
there are good trusts and bad trusts, so trusts need to be regulated
bad trusts that prevent entrepreneurs from entering industries should be broken up
good trusts that allow competition are still dangerous and need to be broken up
Who was a social reformer and leader in the settlement house movement?
Jane Addams
Ida Tarbell
Florence Kelley
Ida Wells
Which practice was officially put into action by the 17th Amendment?
Initiative
Recall
Direct election of U.S. Senators
Referendum
What was the purpose of the Federal Reserve Act?
To regulate the banking system
To ensure food safety
To break up monopolies
To establish labor laws
During the Progressive Era, as women sought suffrage (the right to vote), what were their most pressing concerns? (multiple solutions)
Equal Pay for Equal Work
Racial Equality
Temperance (banning alcohol)
Child Labor and Working Conditions
Who was a prominent African American leader and co-founder of the NAACP?
W.E.B. Du Bois
George Washington Carver
Booker T. Washington
Ida Bell
Which term refers to laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States AFTER the Plessy v. Ferguson ruling?
Jim Crow laws
slave codes
Black codes
de facto segregation
What was the MAIN goal of the Progressive movement?
To address social and political issues by pressuring the government to take action
To promote industrialization and urbanization
To expand the U.S. territory and complete Manifest Destiny
To address social and political issues by pressuring the public to take action
According to the excerpt, Rockefeller was getting better rates from the railroads than his competition. This implies that Rockefeller had a great relationship with:
Andrew Carnegie
Henry Ford
Cornelius Vanderbilt
J.P. Morgan
In the excerpt, Justice Henry Brown claims: (mutiple solutions)
that it is the Constitution's obligation (job) to make Blacks and Whites social equals
that if colored people feel inferior from being separated, it is their own fault
that racial separation does NOT promote racial inferiority
that co-mingling the races is not necessary to have equality
These particular Jim Crow laws seem to have the common goal of:
keeping Blacks subservient to Whites
keeping Blacks and Whites from fraternizing (exchanging/socializing/engaging)
eliminating Blacks altogether
discouraging Blacks from participating in daily life
To get the government's attention, what does Upton Sinclair reveal is in the meat being consumed by customers? (multiple solutions)
rats
rat poison
rooftop moisture
tuberculosis from spitting workers
Even though she hated his guts, the "bargaining and borrowing" described by Ida Tarbell is an example of Rockefeller practicing: (mutiple solutions)
democratic socialism
command economy
free enterprise entrepreneurship
venture capitalism
