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Final Test

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 25mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Teddy Roosevelt was the first progressive president and known for which areas of improvement?

a)

Control corporations, cooperate with women, consider national parks

b)

Control commerce, cookie manufacturing, control national forests

c)

Control citizens, control consumers, control national monuments

d)

Control corporations, consumer protection, conservation of lands

2.

Supporters of women's suffrage also supported

a)

settlement houses

b)

an end to child labor

c)

higher wages and safer working conditions

d)

all of the above

3.

Yellow Journalism was based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration

a)

True

b)

False

4.

Teddy Roosevelt helped create what system in the US?

a)

railroad system

b)

national parks system

c)

interstate highway system

d)

reservation system

5.

The Triangle Shirtwaist Company had locked doors on the factory floors, causing a great loss of lives of the workers in a fire.

a)

True

b)

False

6.

The convention in 1848 to work for women's rights was called the Declaration of Sentiments.

a)

True

b)

False

7.

Which amendment gave women the right to vote, 144 years after Abigail Adams said "Remember the Ladies"?

a)

1st Amendment

b)

10th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

d)

19th Amendment

8.

Who was one of the main leaders of the Temperance movement?

a)

Betsy Ross

b)

Abigail Adams

c)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

d)

Carrie Nation

9.

Journalists who wanted to report the truth about poor living conditions and immoral institutions and leaders were known as muckrakers.

a)

True

b)

False

10.

After selling his company Andrew Carnegie used his wealth by

a)

donating to entrepreneurs

b)

developing department stores

c)

donating to Mrs. MW's baby shower fund

d)

donating to build libraries

11.

The Bessemer process

a)

was soon replaced by a more efficient method of making steel

b)

makes steel cheaper, faster, and stronger

c)

cheaply refined oil into kerosene

d)

improved telegraph communication by adding speech

12.

Used horizontal integration to control 90% of the oil business in America. Gave away over a trillion dollars in today's money.

a)

John D. Rockefeller

b)

Andrew Carnegie

c)

Cornelius Vanderbilt

d)

Warren Buffet

13.

Groups of people who work together to gain or maintain their rights in the workplace are called

a)

unions

b)

collective

c)

club

d)

fraternity

14.

Which man had a monopoly on the oil business and started a foundation named after him? He gave away over a trillion dollars in today's money

a)

Bill Gates

b)

Andrew Carnegie

c)

John D. Rockefeller

d)

Warren Buffet

15.

Which man brought the Bessemer process to America and became the King of Steel

a)

Superman

b)

John D. Rockefeller

c)

Andrew Carnegie

d)

Ben Roethlisberger

16.

People who start new businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so, are known as

a)

philanthropists

b)

financiers

c)

stockbrokers

d)

entrepreneurs

17.

If someone owns all the businesses involved in each step of the manufacturing process, from raw materials to the finished product, what is it called?

a)

vertical integration

b)

horizontal integration

c)

monopoly

d)

entrepreneur

18.

Which industry had the greatest impact on the Industrial Revolution?

a)

cattle

b)

entertainment

c)

automobile

d)

steel

19.

Owning all or nearly all the businesses in an industry is called monopoly

a)

True

b)

False

20.

Which is not a main goal of labor unions?

a)

equal pay for equal work for women and men

b)

better pay

c)

better working conditions

d)

shorter hours

21.

Chief Standing Bear was regarded as a leader of civil rights and was the Martin Luther King, Jr. of his day.

a)

True

b)

False

22.

Where was the Trial of Standing Bear held?

a)

Lincoln, NE

b)

Washington DC

c)

Ft. Robinson

d)

Omaha, NE

23.

The Pawnee were forced to move to Indian Country after their land was given to the Sioux.

a)

True

b)

False

24.

The Ghost Dance was a religious movement that spread across the North.

a)

True

b)

False

25.

Most Americans Indians wanted to live on reservations

a)

True

b)

False

26.

What was the name of the attack on Black Kettle's camp, led by Col. Chivington, that resulted in the death of 200 old people, women, and children?

a)

The Cheating Massacre

b)

Wounded Knee Massacre

c)

The Fetterman Massacre

d)

Sand Creek Massacre

27.

These were African Americans who moved west in a mass departure.

a)

Cowboys

b)

sodbusters

c)

exodusters

d)

cowgirls

28.

This Act granted over 17 million acres of western land to the states to be used for educational purposes

a)

Morrill Act

b)

Dawes Act

c)

Homestead Act

d)

Hamilton Act

29.

The Native Americans greatest victory over the US was?

a)

Sand Creek Massacre

b)

Battle of the Little Bighorn

c)

Massacre at Wounded Knee

d)

The Fetterman Massacre

30.

What created the Great Sioux Reservation, completely free of whites?

a)

Dawes Act

b)

Treaty of Ft Laramie 1868

c)

Morrill Act

d)

Homestead Act

31.

Plains Indians depended on which of the following animals for survival?

a)

cattle and horses

b)

cattle and sheep

c)

horses and rabbits

d)

horses and bison

32.

Which of the following acts made land ownership among American Indians private, rather than communal?

a)

Dawes Act

b)

Pacific Railway Act

c)

Homestead Act

d)

Morrill Act

33.

Who was the President during the Civil War?

a)

Washington

b)

Adams

c)

Lincoln

d)

Obama

34.

Which side won the Civil War?

a)

North

b)

South

c)

East

d)

West

35.

Congress passed an exclusion act, in 1882, that barred what group from entering the US

a)

Irish

b)

Germans

c)

Japanese

d)

Chinese

36.

The US government used Ellis Island in New York Harbor as

a)

A processing center for new arrived immigrants

b)

An education center for immigrant children

c)

A place where immigrants could learn English and US History

d)

Housing center for immigrants to live rent-free for 1 year

37.

Which of the following was NOT a push factor

a)

Famine

b)

War

c)

Jobs

d)

Religious persecution

38.

This means to leave one country and settle in another

a)

Immigrant

b)

Emigrate

c)

Migrate

d)

Vacant

39.

Which of the following granted land to small farmers if they agreed to stay on the land for five years?

a)

Dawes Act

b)

Pacific Railway Act

c)

Homestead Act

d)

Morrill Act

40.

The first ten amendments to the Constitution are known as?

a)

The Bill of Rights

b)

Magna Carta

c)

The Articles of Confederation

d)

Pentagon Papers

41.

From which of the following countries would immigrants go through Angel Island Immigration Center?

a)

Germany

b)

China

c)

Ireland

d)

Italy

42.

This wave of immigrants came mostly from northern and western Europe and was mostly Protestants

a)

Old Wave

b)

New Wave

c)

Radio Wave

d)

Micro Wave

43.

This wave immigrants came mostly from southern and eastern Europe and was Catholic, Jewish, and Eastern Orthodox

a)

Old Wave

b)

New Wave

c)

Radio Wave

d)

Micro Wave

44.

What type of government does the US have?

a)

democracy

b)

republic

c)

monarchy

d)

theocracy

45.

Which document states the basic fundamental laws of the US?

a)

The Constitution

b)

The Federalist Papers

c)

The Monroe Doctrine

d)

Snapgram

46.

From which country did the US win independence?

a)

France

b)

Spain

c)

Japan

d)

Britain

47.

Which document stated the 13 colonies' desire to be free from the mother country?

a)

The Constitution

b)

The Bill of Rights

c)

The Monroe Doctrine

d)

The Declaration of Independence

48.

Who were the co-leaders of the expedition to explore the Louisiana Purchase?

a)

Lois and Clark

b)

Ben and Jerry

c)

Kim and Kanye

d)

Lewis and Clark

49.

The "Three Sisters" include beans, corn, and squash

a)

True

b)

False

50.

Manifest Destiny is the term Americans lived by to expand west

a)

true

b)

false