WorksheetsAMH 2020 Midterm
Total questions: 70
Worksheet time: 1hrs 9mins
Generally, what time period constituted Reconstruction?
1865-1877
1865-1895
1865-1900
1865-1918
Which Amendment to the United States Constitution granted African American men the right to vote during Reconstruction?
12th Amendment
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
Which of the following was not a top priority of most former slaves after emancipation?
Land Ownership
Education
Migration North
Voting
What was the name given to Southerners who voted Republican during Reconstruction?
Scalawags
Shifters
Carpetbaggers
Lollygaggers
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.
Freedman's Bureau
Union League
White League
None of the Above
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?
Great Railroad Strike
Homestead Massacre
Haymarket Strike
None of the Above
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?
Horizontal Integration
Vertical Integration
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?
Evangelism
Predestination
Manifest Destiny
New Frontier
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.
Reservation system
Mining Industry
100th Meridian
Borderland
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.
Red Cloud
Sitting Bull
Chief Joseph
John Wesley Powell
Which of the following led to the mass displacement of Native Americans by encouraging more Americans to move west?
Dawes Act of 1877
Homestead Act of 1862
Indian Education Act 1891
None of the Above
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.
Borderland
Battle of the Little Bighorn
Battle of Wounded Knee
Sand Creek Massacre
Which of the following is true about the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
Chinese immigrants in the United States could not become citizens
Allowed a few groups like students, teachers, and diplomats to enter
Was repealed in 1943, because of WWII
All of the Above
Which of the following is NOT one of the 3 legs of Jim Crow?
Segregation
Disfranchisement
Sharecropping
Lynching
Which of the following was NOT a part of the Populist platform?
A. Recognition of labor unions
B. Government control of railroads
C. Coinage of silver
D. Racial Integration
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?
100% Americanism
Nativism
True Patriotism
None of the Above
"New Immigrants" refers to immigrants from what area?
Southern & Eastern Europe
Northern & Western Europe
Asia & Africa
South America
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?
Freedman’s Bureau
Hull House
Jim Crow (3 Legs)
Andrew Carnegie
This person was a Civil Rights advocate from the 1890s-1950s who preached immediate inclusion & helped to found the NAACP
Which of the early 20th century civil rights leaders advocated temporary complacency with segregation and equality through separate economic gain and education?
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. DuBois
Ida B. Wells
Marcus Garvey
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?
Orlando
Jacksonville
Tampa
Miami
Which was a US international, imperial colony acquired in the Spanish American War?
Hawaii
Alaska
Puerto Rico
Panama
During what time period did the Progressive Movement occur?
A. 1870-1890
B. 1900-1920
C. 1910-1930
D. None of the Above
What was the term given to investigative journalists who exposed corruption and misconduct in industry and government like Upton Sinclair and Lincoln Steffens?
Muckrakers
Gumshoes
Scalawags
Hucksters
Which of the following was a measure used by the Good Government Progressives to expand public involvement in politics
Referendum
Initiative
Recall
All the Above
What was the group of Progressive Environmentalists who wanted to eliminate human impact on nature?
Conservationists
Preservationists
Observationists
Flat Earthers
What was the worst loss of life due to a workplace accident in 20th-century US History?
Triangle Shirtwaste Fire
Homestead Massacre
Lawrence Burning
Chicago Fire
What was the popular science that advocated for a better population through “effective” breeding and advocated for sterilization of “less developed” peoples?
Biology
Anatomy
Taxidermy
Eugenics
Which of the following was NOT a part of the Progressive Agenda?
A. Government regulation of industry
B. Prohibition
C. End of Jim Crow
D. Woman’s Suffrage
Who was the Gilded Age eugenicist and author of "Heredity in Relation to Eugenics"?
Charles Davenport
Andrew Carnegie
William Jennings Bryan
Booker T. Washington
Which of the following was NOT a candidate in the 1912 Presidential Election?
Woodrow Wilson
William McKinley
Theodore Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
President Theodore Roosevelt said “Speak softly and carry a big stick.” His big stick was a reference to
a. joining military alliances to carry out foreign policy goals
using the navy to accomplish foreign policy goals
a. using the national forests to stimulate building projects
a. supporting woman suffrage to expand civil rights
Which policy gave US the right to be the "policemen of the Western Hemisphere"
Roosevelt Corollary
Good Neighbor Policy
Open Door Policy
Marshall Plan
Which president began the policy of "dollar diplomacy"?
Theodore Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Warren G. Harding
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?
Dollar Diplomacy
Big Stick Diplomacy
Wilsonianism
Americanism
Which of the following brought the United States’ entry into World War I in 1917?
The sinking of the Lusitania
The Rape of Belgium
The Zimmerman Telegram
None of the Above
Which of the following was NOT a government entity created during World War I?
War Industries Board
National War Labor Board
Food Administration
America First Committee
Which of the following figures was in charge of the wartime Committee of Public Information, charged with creating and distribute?
Eugene V. Debbs
John Pershing
George Creel
Herbert Hoover
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?
Volstead Act
Espionage Act
Sedition Act
Selective Service Act
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?
The Great Raids
Palmer Raids
Red Raids
Green Raids
Which of the following was a craze that emerged in the 1920's?
Harlem Renaissance
Flapper Girl
Organized Crime
All of the Above
What was the name of an illegal bar during Prohibition?
Cantina
Speakeasy
Saloon
Shake Shack
Who were the Italian anarchists executed in 1927 for murder despite flimsy evidence?
Vespucci & Amerigo
Meucci & Garibaldi
Sacco & Vanzetti
LoSasso & Calandriello
What was the 1st year women could vote nationally with the passage of the 19th Amendment?
1902
1908
1914
1920
What was the first nationwide industrial union?
the Knights of Labor
the AFL
the Pinkertons
the Anarchists
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.
The Pullman Strike
Great Anthracite Coal Strike
Great Southwest Railroad Strike
Steel Strike of 1919
Most strikes by unions in the late 1800s were unsuccessful mainly because
unions were unconstitutional
strikes had never been used before to settle labor issues
government supported business instead of workers
strikers failed to use militant tactics
Choose THREE principles contained in Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points
Self-determination
Disarmament
Free Trade
Forcing Germany to pay reoperations
The International Workers of the World or IWW was a radical labor union nicknamed _______?
The Reds
The Firestarters
The Mechanics
The Wobblies
What was the name of the 1915 film whose racist depiction of Reconstruction led Wilson to call it "History written with Lightning"
The Klansman
Reconstruction Restored
Birth of a Nation
Odd Man Out
What was the Supreme Court Case which declared segregation or "separate but equal" was legal?
Brown v. Board of Education
Dredd Scott v. USA
Plessy v. Fergusson
None of the Above
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?
Knights of Labor
American Federation of Labor
Industrial Workers of the World
Congress of Industrial Workers
Who was the labor activist who ran for president as a socialist in the 1912 election
Woodrow Wilson
Samuel Gompers
Eugene V. Debbs
Clarence Darrow
Armistice Day is what month and day?
11/1
10/1
11/11
12/12
Which act established conscription in the United States during World War I?
Committee of Public Information
Selective Service Act
Sedition Act
Espionage Act
What was the name of the organization responsible for promoting the war effort and shaping public opinion during World War I?
War Bonds
Espionage Act
War Industries Board
Committee of Public Information
What was the name of the agreement that ended World War I?
Big Four
Treaty of Versailles
League of Nations
Armistice
The _____ was the movement of hundreds of thousands African Americans from the South to cities in the North during World War I.
Black Migration
college students
All of the above
The immigrants who came to America from Southern and Eastern Europe in the late-1800s and early 1900s are known as?
Old Immigrants
New Immigrants
Novel Immigrants
Industrial Immigrants
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"?
Our American Cousin
The Bad and the Beautiful
The American Friend
Birth of a Nation
