USH B Unit 2 Quiz!

Who established Hull House in Chicago?

Jim Crow laws were laws that

Limited working hours for women

Not all immigrants had to pass a medical examination before they were admitted to the country.

The Chinese Exclusion Act was originally supposed to last for just 10 years.

Which statement is true regarding the election of 1912?

Voters could accept or reject an initiative

Ellis Island is were immigrants on the East Coast were processed

Muckrakers were mostly

What event in 1911 caused the need for change in American factories regarding safety and working conditions?

Single women could not be deported if they didn’t have a male relative to vouch for them.

The primary goal of the NAACP was

The Progressive movement regarded all of the following as worthy goals EXCEPT

Teddy Roosevelt’s plan for America was known as

Which of the following groups is most associated with prohibition?

More people immigrated to the East Coast than immigrated to Angel Island on the West Coast.

Japan agreed to limit emigration to the United States in the

Gives voters the right to propose a law

The 19th Amendment was finally ratified giving women the right to vote due largely to

James A. Garfield's assassin killed the president because he thought he deserved a job in the executive branch.

The Chinese Exclusion Act was not officially repealed until 1943

The law that requires truthful labels and paved the way for the modern-day FDA was the

In The Jungle, Upton Sinclair exposed

Chester A. Arthur was successful in getting Congress to pass the Pendleton Civil Service Act

What featured featured theatrical performances that included juggling, singing, and dancing?

Southern states sometimes used a grandfather clause to allow them to

What taught art techniques that embraced realism?

Under the Gentleman's Agreement, students were still allowed entrance into the country

As president, Woodrow Wilson worked hard to do all of the following EXCEPT

What did Woolworths offer?

_________________ gained the most from the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment.

Which of the following is NOT true regarding minority workers in the West?

Who believed racism would end as blacks acquired practical work skills and proved their economic value to society?

Fires were not common in big cities in the 1800s because there were many wooden structures.

Wilson’s _______________________ controlled the money supply and extended credit to more Americans

Garbage collection in the 1800s was not taken care of by government agencies.

Elevators allowed skyscrapers to be more appealing to businesses

Ward bosses are located in which part of the political machine pyramid?

Which of the following is true regarding women in the workforce at the turn of the century?

Piped water was uncommon in New York in the 1860s.

All of the following were trends in education around 1900 EXCEPT

Voters could remove an elected official

What offered goods through a catalog to be shipped through the mail?

Tenements were multi-family residences that were not well maintained by landlords.

Called for senators to be elected directly by the people

This “trustbuster” used his presidency as a “bully pulpit” to regulate big business

In the case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that