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WorksheetsUSH Unit 1 Review
Total questions: 58
Worksheet time: 29mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What did the 'Golden Spike' event symbolize?
a)
The end of the Civil War
b)
The completion of the Transcontinental Railroad
c)
The passage of the Homestead Act
d)
The opening of Ellis Island
2.
Which groups made up the majority of Transcontinental Railroad laborers?
a)
Chinese and Irish immigrants
b)
African Americans and Italians
c)
Women and children
d)
Native Americans and Germans
3.
Why was the Transcontinental Railroad significant?
a)
It ended Reconstruction
b)
It united the East and West coasts and boosted trade
c)
It outlawed slavery
d)
It created the Supreme Court
4.
Why did the Republican Party create the Homestead Act?
a)
To provide land for free to encourage western settlement
b)
To end the Civil War
c)
To expand slavery
d)
To regulate banks
5.
What were the requirements of the Homestead Act?
a)
Work on land for 5 years
b)
Pay a small fee and farm the land
c)
Both A and B
d)
Serve in the military
6.
The Great Plains after the Homestead Act became:
a)
Unchanged wilderness
b)
Heavily settled farmland
c)
Abandoned territory
d)
Native American reservation land
7.
Which law created agricultural and technical colleges?
a)
Homestead Act
b)
Morrill Land Grant Act
c)
Pacific Railway Act
d)
Pendleton Act
8.
Which law gave land to railroad companies to build the transcontinental railroad?
a)
Homestead Act
b)
Pacific Railway Act
c)
Morrill Land Grant Act
d)
Credit Mobilier Act
9.
What was the nickname given to Great Plains settlers under the Homestead Act?
a)
Forty-Niners
b)
Sodbusters
c)
Exodusters
d)
Buffalo Soldiers
10.
What was the purpose of the reservation system?
a)
To allow Native Americans free farming land
b)
To restrict Native Americans to specific lands
c)
To give citizenship to Native Americans
d)
To create trade with Native Americans
11.
What does assimilation mean in the context of Native Americans?
a)
Preserving tribal culture
b)
Adopting white American culture
c)
Relocating tribes to Mexico
d)
Resisting U.S. government policies
12.
How were Native Americans treated in boarding schools?
a)
They were encouraged to speak native languages
b)
They were forced to abandon culture and language
c)
They were given tribal leadership roles
d)
They were allowed to live freely
13.
What did the Dawes Act do?
a)
Increased tribal land ownership
b)
Divided tribal lands into individual plots
c)
Created new reservations
d)
Banned Native American boarding schools
14.
The Dawes Act led to:
a)
Increased Native landholdings
b)
Massive loss of tribal land
c)
New tribal governments
d)
Native independence
15.
Which was an example of assimilation policy?
a)
Boarding schools
b)
Homestead Act
c)
Credit Mobilier
d)
Civil Service Reform
16.
Which of the following best describes Native American life on reservations?
a)
Self-governing and free
b)
Controlled and restricted by U.S. government
c)
Independent economies
d)
Open migration allowed
17.
What was one effect of the Compromise of 1877?
a)
End of slavery
b)
End of Reconstruction
c)
Start of the Civil War
d)
Expansion of the Homestead Act
18.
Jim Crow laws were designed to:
a)
End segregation
b)
Enforce racial segregation
c)
Support African American voting rights
d)
Create new jobs
19.
Which Supreme Court case established 'separate but equal'?
a)
Brown v. Board of Education
b)
Plessy v. Ferguson
c)
Marbury v. Madison
d)
Dred Scott v. Sandford
20.
What was the long-term effect of Plessy v. Ferguson?
a)
Integration of schools
b)
Legalized segregation for decades
c)
Expansion of voting rights
d)
End of Reconstruction
21.
Why did racist Southern whites use lynching?
a)
To terrorize African Americans
b)
To celebrate holidays
c)
To recruit laborers
d)
To support civil rights
22.
Which disenfranchisement method was used?
a)
Literacy tests
b)
Poll taxes
c)
Grandfather clauses
d)
All of the above
23.
Who was Pap Singleton?
a)
A Civil Rights activist in 1960s
b)
Leader of the Exodusters migration
c)
A Union general
d)
An industrialist
24.
What were the Exodusters known for?
a)
Moving west to escape Jim Crow laws
b)
Building railroads
c)
Starting labor unions
d)
Establishing reservations
25.
The Compromise of 1877 resulted in:
a)
Withdrawal of federal troops from the South
b)
Expansion of slavery
c)
The Dawes Act
d)
Chinese Exclusion Act
26.
What is the 'Gilded Age'?
a)
An era of wealth with underlying corruption
b)
A time of total equality
c)
The Reconstruction era
d)
The Progressive era
27.
What was a political machine?
a)
An anti-corruption group
b)
An organization that controlled politics through bribery and favors
c)
A government agency
d)
A new factory invention
28.
Who exposed Boss Tweed through cartoons?
a)
Thomas Nast
b)
Andrew Carnegie
c)
Jane Addams
d)
Jacob Riis
29.
Who did the government collaborate with in the Credit Mobilier scandal?
a)
Railroad companies
b)
Immigrants
c)
Native Americans
d)
Factory workers
30.
What is the spoils system?
a)
Rewarding political supporters with jobs
b)
Reforming the military
c)
Encouraging immigration
d)
Creating monopolies
31.
What happened to President Garfield in 1881?
a)
He resigned
b)
He was assassinated
c)
He was impeached
d)
He retired
32.
What was the purpose of the Pendleton Act?
a)
Created civil service exams
b)
Expanded slavery
c)
Supported monopolies
d)
Banned immigration
33.
The Interstate Commerce Act was designed to:
a)
Regulate railroads
b)
Stop immigration
c)
Support monopolies
d)
Ban unions
34.
What was one effect of the Gilded Age wealth gap?
a)
Created tension between rich and poor
b)
Improved equality
c)
Reduced urbanization
d)
Eliminated monopolies
35.
Who invented the telephone?
a)
Alexander Graham Bell
b)
Thomas Edison
c)
Nikola Tesla
d)
Henry Bessemer
36.
Who developed the Bessemer process for steel?
a)
Henry Bessemer
b)
Andrew Carnegie
c)
Cornelius Vanderbilt
d)
John D. Rockefeller
37.
Who dominated the oil industry?
a)
Andrew Carnegie
b)
John D. Rockefeller
c)
J.P. Morgan
d)
Nikola Tesla
38.
Who dominated the steel industry?
a)
Andrew Carnegie
b)
Cornelius Vanderbilt
c)
Thomas Edison
d)
Madam C.J. Walker
39.
Who was a powerful banker and financier?
a)
J.P. Morgan
b)
Henry Bessemer
c)
Nikola Tesla
d)
Jane Addams
40.
Who created electric light bulbs and phonographs?
a)
Thomas Edison
b)
Nikola Tesla
c)
Alexander Graham Bell
d)
Cornelius Vanderbilt
41.
Who pioneered alternating current electricity?
a)
Nikola Tesla
b)
Thomas Edison
c)
Andrew Carnegie
d)
John D. Rockefeller
42.
Who built a fortune in railroads?
a)
Cornelius Vanderbilt
b)
Henry Bessemer
c)
Thomas Nast
d)
Pap Singleton
43.
Who was the first female self-made millionaire in the U.S.?
a)
Madam C.J. Walker
b)
Jane Addams
c)
Harriet Tubman
d)
Sojourner Truth
44.
Which city became the steel capital of the U.S.?
a)
Chicago
b)
Pittsburgh
c)
Boston
d)
San Francisco
45.
Which city was known for meatpacking?
a)
Chicago
b)
New York
c)
Pittsburgh
d)
Boston
46.
Which city was the financial hub?
a)
San Francisco
b)
Boston
c)
New York City
d)
Pittsburgh
47.
What is rural-to-urban migration?
a)
Movement from cities to farms
b)
Movement from farms to cities
c)
Migration to other countries
d)
Native American relocation
48.
Why were people drawn to cities during the Gilded Age?
a)
Cheaper farmland
b)
Job opportunities in factories
c)
To escape urban poverty
d)
To avoid immigration quotas
49.
What were the largest industrial centers of the Gilded Age?
a)
Small farming towns
b)
Major cities like NYC, Chicago, Pittsburgh
c)
Reservation lands
d)
Southern plantations
50.
'Old immigrants' came mainly from:
a)
Southern and Eastern Europe
b)
Northern and Western Europe
c)
Asia
d)
Latin America
51.
'New immigrants' came mainly from:
a)
Southern and Eastern Europe
b)
Northern and Western Europe
c)
Africa
d)
South America
52.
Where did most European immigrants arrive?
a)
Ellis Island
b)
Angel Island
c)
San Francisco
d)
Mexico
53.
Where did most Asian immigrants arrive?
a)
Ellis Island
b)
Angel Island
c)
New York
d)
Boston
54.
What is an ethnic cluster?
a)
Neighborhoods of shared ethnicity
b)
Immigrant-owned businesses
c)
Factories
d)
Reservations
55.
Who founded Hull House to help immigrants?
a)
Jane Addams
b)
Jacob Riis
c)
Madam C.J. Walker
d)
Thomas Nast
56.
Who exposed poor urban living conditions in photographs?
a)
Jacob Riis
b)
Jane Addams
c)
Thomas Edison
d)
Cornelius Vanderbilt
57.
What was the purpose of the Chinese Exclusion Act?
a)
Ban Chinese labor immigration
b)
Encourage Chinese trade
c)
Grant citizenship
d)
Support Native Americans
58.
What was the Gentleman's Agreement of 1907?
a)
Restricted Japanese immigration
b)
Ended Reconstruction
c)
Allowed more European immigrants
d)
Banned labor unions
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