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AMH 2020 Midterm

Total questions: 70

Worksheet time: 1hrs 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Generally, what time period constituted Reconstruction?

a)

1865-1877

b)

1865-1895

c)

1865-1900

d)

1865-1918

2.

Which Amendment to the United States Constitution granted African American men the right to vote during Reconstruction?

a)

12th Amendment

b)

13th Amendment

c)

14th Amendment

d)

15th Amendment

3.
Which is the best description of Reconstruction?
a)
rebuilding the US after a big earthquake
b)
a period of rebuilding in the US after the Revolutionary War
c)
a period of rebuilding in the US after the Civil War
d)
unfair treatment of African Americans after the Civil War
4.

Which of the following was not a top priority of most former slaves after emancipation?

a)

Land Ownership

b)

Education

c)

Migration North

d)

Voting

5.

What was the name given to Southerners who voted Republican during Reconstruction?

a)

Scalawags

b)

Shifters

c)

Carpetbaggers

d)

Lollygaggers

6.

What was the name of the government organization created at the end of the Civil War to help freed slaves acquire an education, employment, and land which faced staunch discrimination from white southerners.

a)

Freedman's Bureau

b)

Union League

c)

White League

d)

None of the Above

7.
theory that government should not interfere in the operation of the free market
a)
Cul-de-sac
b)
Laissez-Faire
c)
Fleur de Lis
d)
Achtung
8.
inventor known for the telephone and the company that later becomes AT&T
a)
Alexander Graham Bell
b)
Knights of Labor
c)
Thomas Edison
d)
John D. Rockefeller
9.
theory that rich were obligated to help communities by giving back in the form of libraries, school, universities but not giving directly to individuals
a)
National Market
b)
Philanthropy
c)
Gospel of Wealth
d)
Laissez-faire
10.
Economic philosophy based on "Survival of the fittest"
a)
Social Darwinism
b)
National Market
c)
Knights of Labor
d)
Free Enterprise System
11.

What was the first major strike of the 19th century, same year as the Great Compromise, that led to a greater acknowledgement of the need to unionize amongst workers?

a)

Great Railroad Strike

b)

Homestead Massacre

c)

Haymarket Strike

d)

None of the Above

12.

What was the business practice used by John D. Rockefeller in the Gilded Age where a company controls the market for a product by buying or forcing out every other supplier?

a)

Horizontal Integration

b)
Bessemer Process
c)
Monopoly
d)

Vertical Integration

13.

What was the ideology that held the United States was anointed by God to stretch from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean justifying the conquest of Native American lands?

a)

Evangelism

b)

Predestination

c)

Manifest Destiny

d)

New Frontier

14.

After gold and silver strikes in Colorado, Nevada, and other western territories in the second half of the nineteenth century, fortune-seekers rushed to the West to dig. These metals were essential to the US industrial growth and were sold in world markets.

a)

Reservation system

b)

Mining Industry

c)

100th Meridian

d)

Borderland

15.

Leader of the Nez Perce who led a group to seek asylum in Canada when the US government moved his tribe to a small reservation in Idaho from their ancestral lands in Oregon.

a)

Red Cloud

b)

Sitting Bull

c)

Chief Joseph

d)

John Wesley Powell

16.

Which of the following led to the mass displacement of Native Americans by encouraging more Americans to move west?

a)

Dawes Act of 1877

b)

Homestead Act of 1862

c)

Indian Education Act 1891

d)

None of the Above

17.

A battle between the US Army and the Dakota Sioux, in which two hundred Native Americans and twenty-nine US soldiers died. Tensions erupted violently over the "Ghost Dance", which the US government had outlawed, and the dispute over whether Sioux reservation land would be broken up because of the Dawes Act.

a)

Borderland

b)

Battle of the Little Bighorn

c)

Battle of Wounded Knee

d)

Sand Creek Massacre

18.

Which of the following is true about the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?

a)

Chinese immigrants in the United States could not become citizens

b)

Allowed a few groups like students, teachers, and diplomats to enter

c)

Was repealed in 1943, because of WWII

d)

All of the Above

19.

Which of the following is NOT one of the 3 legs of Jim Crow?

a)

Segregation

b)

Disfranchisement

c)

Sharecropping

d)

Lynching

20.

Which of the following was NOT a part of the Populist platform?

a)

A. Recognition of labor unions

b)

B. Government control of railroads

c)

C. Coinage of silver

d)

D. Racial Integration

21.

What is name given to the campaign against immigration in response to the surge of “new” immigrants in the late 19th and early 20th centuries?

a)

100% Americanism

b)

Nativism

c)

True Patriotism

d)

None of the Above

22.

"New Immigrants" refers to immigrants from what area?

a)

Southern & Eastern Europe

b)

Northern & Western Europe

c)

Asia & Africa

d)

South America

23.

Below are terms relating to people, events, and other subjects we covered over the course of the class. Which of the following terms is associated with the establishment of settlement houses in the United States?

a)

Freedman’s Bureau

b)

Hull House

c)

Jim Crow (3 Legs)

d)

Andrew Carnegie

24.
Economic motives for imperialism include _________.
a)
a desire to spread Christianity
b)
a need for military bases around the world
c)
a need for raw materials to be used in factories
d)
a desire to gain glory
25.

This person was a Civil Rights advocate from the 1890s-1950s who preached immediate inclusion & helped to found the NAACP

a)
Ida B Wells
b)
Booker T Washington
c)
W E B DuBois
d)
Martin Luther King Jr.
26.

Which of the early 20th century civil rights leaders advocated temporary complacency with segregation and equality through separate economic gain and education?

a)

Booker T. Washington

b)

W.E.B. DuBois

c)

Ida B. Wells

d)

Marcus Garvey

27.
Why was the Spanish-American War fought?
a)
The US wanted to help Cuba gain independence from Spain so that the US could have access to Cuba's natural resources
b)
The US blamed to sinking of the USS Maine on Spain
c)
The Spanish Ambassador wrote a letter criticizing the president
d)
All of these
28.

Which Florida city served as the main port of embarkation for the "Rough Riders" and other American forces sent to Cuba during the Spanish-American War?

a)

Orlando

b)

Jacksonville

c)

Tampa

d)

Miami

29.

Which was a US international, imperial colony acquired in the Spanish American War?

a)

Hawaii

b)

Alaska

c)

Puerto Rico

d)

Panama

30.

During what time period did the Progressive Movement occur?

a)

A. 1870-1890

b)

B. 1900-1920

c)

C. 1910-1930

d)

D. None of the Above

31.
What anti monopoly law made all"combinations, contracts, and conspiracies" that restrained free trade illegal (1890)?
a)
Interstate Commerce Act
b)
Sherman Antitrust Act
c)
Clayton Antitrust Act
d)
Keller-Cefauver Act
32.

What was the term given to investigative journalists who exposed corruption and misconduct in industry and government like Upton Sinclair and Lincoln Steffens?

a)

Muckrakers

b)

Gumshoes

c)

Scalawags

d)

Hucksters

33.

Which of the following was a measure used by the Good Government Progressives to expand public involvement in politics

a)

Referendum

b)

Initiative

c)

Recall

d)

All the Above

34.

What was the group of Progressive Environmentalists who wanted to eliminate human impact on nature?

a)

Conservationists

b)

Preservationists

c)

Observationists

d)

Flat Earthers

35.

What was the worst loss of life due to a workplace accident in 20th-century US History?

a)

Triangle Shirtwaste Fire

b)

Homestead Massacre

c)

Lawrence Burning

d)

Chicago Fire

36.

What was the popular science that advocated for a better population through “effective” breeding and advocated for sterilization of “less developed” peoples?

a)

Biology

b)

Anatomy

c)

Taxidermy

d)

Eugenics

37.

Which of the following was NOT a part of the Progressive Agenda?

a)

A. Government regulation of industry

b)

B. Prohibition

c)

C. End of Jim Crow

d)

D. Woman’s Suffrage

38.

Who was the Gilded Age eugenicist and author of "Heredity in Relation to Eugenics"?

a)

Charles Davenport

b)

Andrew Carnegie

c)

William Jennings Bryan

d)

Booker T. Washington

39.

Which of the following was NOT a candidate in the 1912 Presidential Election?

a)

Woodrow Wilson

b)

William McKinley

c)

Theodore Roosevelt

d)

William Howard Taft

40.

President Theodore Roosevelt said “Speak softly and carry a big stick.” His big stick was a reference to

a)

a. joining military alliances to carry out foreign policy goals

b)

using the navy to accomplish foreign policy goals

c)

a. using the national forests to stimulate building projects

d)

a. supporting woman suffrage to expand civil rights

41.

Which policy gave US the right to be the "policemen of the Western Hemisphere"

a)

Roosevelt Corollary

b)

Good Neighbor Policy

c)

Open Door Policy

d)

Marshall Plan

42.

Which president began the policy of "dollar diplomacy"?

a)

Theodore Roosevelt

b)

William Howard Taft

c)

Woodrow Wilson

d)

Warren G. Harding

43.

What philosophy holds the United States must spread their democratic and capitalist values abroad through foreign policy which led to the US occupation of Haiti in 1915?

a)

Dollar Diplomacy

b)

Big Stick Diplomacy

c)

Wilsonianism

d)

Americanism

44.

Which of the following brought the United States’ entry into World War I in 1917?

a)

The sinking of the Lusitania

b)

The Rape of Belgium

c)

The Zimmerman Telegram

d)

None of the Above

45.

Which of the following was NOT a government entity created during World War I?

a)

War Industries Board

b)

National War Labor Board

c)

Food Administration

d)

America First Committee

46.

Which of the following figures was in charge of the wartime Committee of Public Information, charged with creating and distribute?

a)

Eugene V. Debbs

b)

John Pershing

c)

George Creel

d)

Herbert Hoover

47.

Which of the following legislation was passed during World War I led to the imprisonment of anyone who spoke out against the war, the draft, or the USA?

a)

Volstead Act

b)

Espionage Act

c)

Sedition Act

d)

Selective Service Act

48.

What was the name given to a series of raids on labor rights proponents, political radicals, and Eastern European immigrants that led to the arrest of over 500 people?

a)

The Great Raids

b)

Palmer Raids

c)

Red Raids

d)

Green Raids

49.

Which of the following was a craze that emerged in the 1920's?

a)

Harlem Renaissance

b)

Flapper Girl

c)

Organized Crime

d)

All of the Above

50.

What was the name of an illegal bar during Prohibition?

a)

Cantina

b)

Speakeasy

c)

Saloon

d)

Shake Shack

51.

Who were the Italian anarchists executed in 1927 for murder despite flimsy evidence?

a)

Vespucci & Amerigo

b)

Meucci & Garibaldi

c)

Sacco & Vanzetti

d)

LoSasso & Calandriello

52.

What was the 1st year women could vote nationally with the passage of the 19th Amendment?

a)

1902

b)

1908

c)

1914

d)

1920

53.

What was the first nationwide industrial union?

a)

the Knights of Labor

b)

the AFL

c)

the Pinkertons

d)

the Anarchists

54.

Facing 12-hour work days and wage cuts resulting from the depressed economy, factory workers at the Pullman Palace Car Company walked out in protest. The strike ended when President Grover Cleveland sent federal troops to Chicago on July 6, 1894.

a)

The Pullman Strike

b)

Great Anthracite Coal Strike

c)

Great Southwest Railroad Strike

d)

Steel Strike of 1919

55.

Most strikes by unions in the late 1800s were unsuccessful mainly because

a)

unions were unconstitutional

b)

strikes had never been used before to settle labor issues

c)

government supported business instead of workers

d)

strikers failed to use militant tactics

56.
What does AFL stand for?
a)
American Fun Labor
b)
American Finance of Labor
c)
American Freedom of Labor
d)
American Federation of Labor
57.

Choose THREE principles contained in Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points

a)

Self-determination

b)

Disarmament

c)

Free Trade

d)

Forcing Germany to pay reoperations

58.

The International Workers of the World or IWW was a radical labor union nicknamed _______?

a)

The Reds

b)

The Firestarters

c)

The Mechanics

d)

The Wobblies

59.

What was the name of the 1915 film whose racist depiction of Reconstruction led Wilson to call it "History written with Lightning"

a)

The Klansman

b)

Reconstruction Restored

c)

Birth of a Nation

d)

Odd Man Out

60.

What was the Supreme Court Case which declared segregation or "separate but equal" was legal?

a)

Brown v. Board of Education

b)

Dredd Scott v. USA

c)

Plessy v. Fergusson

d)

None of the Above

61.

What union formed out of the remains of the Knights of Labor that would surpass 1 million members by 1900, but allow in only skilled, male, native born workers?

a)

Knights of Labor

b)

American Federation of Labor

c)

Industrial Workers of the World

d)

Congress of Industrial Workers

62.

Who was the labor activist who ran for president as a socialist in the 1912 election

a)

Woodrow Wilson

b)

Samuel Gompers

c)

Eugene V. Debbs

d)

Clarence Darrow

63.

Armistice Day is what month and day?

a)

11/1

b)

10/1

c)

11/11

d)

12/12

64.

Which act established conscription in the United States during World War I?

a)

Committee of Public Information

b)

Selective Service Act

c)

Sedition Act

d)

Espionage Act

65.

What was the name of the organization responsible for promoting the war effort and shaping public opinion during World War I?

a)

War Bonds

b)

Espionage Act

c)

War Industries Board

d)

Committee of Public Information

66.

What was the name of the agreement that ended World War I?

a)

Big Four

b)

Treaty of Versailles

c)

League of Nations

d)

Armistice

67.

The _____ was the movement of hundreds of thousands African Americans from the South to cities in the North during World War I.

a)
Big Migration
b)
Great Migration
c)
Yellow Migration
d)

Black Migration

68.
The 1920s were not a good time for which of the following?
a)
sharecroppers and farmers
b)
business owners
c)

college students

d)

All of the above

69.

The immigrants who came to America from Southern and Eastern Europe in the late-1800s and early 1900s are known as?

a)

Old Immigrants

b)

New Immigrants

c)

Novel Immigrants

d)

Industrial Immigrants

70.

What was the name of the 1915 film about the birth of the Ku Klux Klan that President Wilson screened at the White House and called, "History written with lightning"?

a)

Our American Cousin

b)

The Bad and the Beautiful

c)

The American Friend

d)

Birth of a Nation