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*UPDATED* Chapter 10 U.S. History Practice

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What potentially motivated Ida Tarbell to target J.D. Rockefeller in her muckraking?

a)

Her father was a small oil business owner whose business was ruined by Rockefeller

b)

She wanted Rockefeller to share his wealth with the less fortunate

c)

Rockefeller interfered with women's suffrage and she wanted women to vote

d)

She wanted to enter the oil industry and could not succeed against Rockefeller's powerful oil regime

2.

Which act is the reason that the processed groceries we purchase come with labels that tell us their ingredients?

a)

Meat Inspection Act

b)

Pure Food and Drug Act

c)

Federal Reserve Act

d)

Antitrust laws

3.

Who was a key figure in the women's suffrage movement?

a)

Susan B. Anthony

b)

Ida Tarbell

c)

Florence Kelley

d)

Jane Addams

4.

Which president is associated with the Progressive Era and the Square Deal?

a)

Woodrow Wilson

b)

Theodore Roosevelt

c)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

d)

Howard Taft

5.

Which of the following are examples of disenfranchisement? (multiple solutions)

a)

literacy tests

b)

secret ballots

c)

poll taxes

d)

slave codes

6.

Based on the excerpt, Homer Plessy was only ______ Black; however, that was enough to make it illegal for him to sit with Whites.

a)

7/8ths

b)

1/8th

c)

1/2

d)

visually

7.

During the Progressive Era, to increase the options for public participation in the democracy process, progressives created:

a)

Referendums, Initiatives, Recalls, and Secret Ballots

b)

Literacy Tests, Poll Taxes, Grandfather Clauses and White Primaries

c)

Referendums, Initiatives, Recalls, and White Primaries

d)

Referendums, Women's Suffrage, Initiatives, and Write-In Ballots

8.

President Theodore Roosevelt's position on trusts is: (multiple solutions)

a)

all trusts are bad and must be broken up

b)

there are good trusts and bad trusts, so trusts need to be regulated

c)

bad trusts that prevent entrepreneurs from entering industries should be broken up

d)

good trusts that allow competition are still dangerous and need to be broken up

9.

Who was a social reformer and leader in the settlement house movement?

a)

Jane Addams

b)

Ida Tarbell

c)

Florence Kelley

d)

Ida Wells

10.

Which practice was officially put into action by the 17th Amendment?

a)

Initiative

b)

Recall

c)

Direct election of U.S. Senators

d)

Referendum

11.

What was the purpose of the Federal Reserve Act?

a)

To regulate the banking system

b)

To ensure food safety

c)

To break up monopolies

d)

To establish labor laws

12.

During the Progressive Era, as women sought suffrage (the right to vote), what were their most pressing concerns? (multiple solutions)

a)

Equal Pay for Equal Work

b)

Racial Equality

c)

Temperance (banning alcohol)

d)

Child Labor and Working Conditions

13.

Who was a prominent African American leader and co-founder of the NAACP?

a)

W.E.B. Du Bois

b)

George Washington Carver

c)

Booker T. Washington

d)

Ida Bell

14.

Which term refers to laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States AFTER the Plessy v. Ferguson ruling?

a)

Jim Crow laws

b)

slave codes

c)

Black codes

d)

de facto segregation

15.

What was the MAIN goal of the Progressive movement?

a)

To address social and political issues by pressuring the government to take action

b)

To promote industrialization and urbanization

c)

To expand the U.S. territory and complete Manifest Destiny

d)

To address social and political issues by pressuring the public to take action

16.

According to the excerpt, Rockefeller was getting better rates from the railroads than his competition. This implies that Rockefeller had a great relationship with:

a)

Andrew Carnegie

b)

Henry Ford

c)

Cornelius Vanderbilt

d)

J.P. Morgan

17.

In the excerpt, Justice Henry Brown claims: (mutiple solutions)

a)

that it is the Constitution's obligation (job) to make Blacks and Whites social equals

b)

that if colored people feel inferior from being separated, it is their own fault

c)

that racial separation does NOT promote racial inferiority

d)

that co-mingling the races is not necessary to have equality

18.

These particular Jim Crow laws seem to have the common goal of:

a)

keeping Blacks subservient to Whites

b)

keeping Blacks and Whites from fraternizing (exchanging/socializing/engaging)

c)

eliminating Blacks altogether

d)

discouraging Blacks from participating in daily life

19.

To get the government's attention, what does Upton Sinclair reveal is in the meat being consumed by customers? (multiple solutions)

a)

rats

b)

rat poison

c)

rooftop moisture

d)

tuberculosis from spitting workers

20.

Even though she hated his guts, the "bargaining and borrowing" described by Ida Tarbell is an example of Rockefeller practicing: (mutiple solutions)

a)

democratic socialism

b)

command economy

c)

free enterprise entrepreneurship

d)

venture capitalism