Unit 1B Review: Immigration, Urbanization, Progressivism, Gilded Age Politics

Question 1

Which cartoonist exposed the corruption of Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall?

Accepted Answer

Thomas Nast

Question 2

Prohibition of sale, transportation, or manufacture of intoxicating liquors is which amendment?

Accepted Answer

18th

Question 3

Federal Reserve System was established to:

Accepted Answer

reorganize the banking system

Question 4

Which of the following was fueled by urbanization?

Accepted Answer

influx of immigration

Question 5

Why did Taft fail to win the election of 1912?

Accepted Answer

did not unify the Republican party

Question 6

What was the problems with political machines?

Accepted Answer

used corrupt voting practices and grafts

Question 7

This reformer created the Hull House

Accepted Answer

Jane Adams

Question 8

These were called Journalists who exposed corruption in government and society

Accepted Answer

muckrakers

Question 9

Which reform allowed citizens to vote directly for a party candidate insteand of political boss

Accepted Answer

direct primary initative

Question 10

Main purpose of TR trust-busting policies were to:

Accepted Answer

encourage business competition

Question 11

Which of the following is true of new immigrants from the late 1880 to 1920's?

Accepted Answer

Tended to form ethnic communities

Question 12

What was purpose of Sherman Anti Trust Act and ICC

Accepted Answer

elimate unfair business practices

Question 13

This cartoonist exposed the political corruption of which political boss?

Accepted Answer

Boss Tweed

Question 14

What invention made the construction of skyscrappers possible?

Accepted Answer

Steel

Question 15

New Nationalism and New Freedom were designed to?

Accepted Answer

solve problems caused by industrialists

Question 16

Which muckraker wrote the "Shame of the Cities"

Accepted Answer

Lincoln Steffens

Question 17

The election of 1912 is significant because

Accepted Answer

3rd party changed election results

Question 18

Theodore Roosevelt in the 1912 election ran under what party

Accepted Answer

Bull Moose

Question 19

Which reform said citizens can approve or reject state or local law?

Accepted Answer

refererendum

Question 20

Which reformer believed in the Social Gospel Movement?

Accepted Answer

Walter Rauschenbusch

Question 21

This provided for the direct election of senators?

Accepted Answer

17th

Question 22

This defines as a place of different cultures mixed together and what US is called?

Accepted Answer

melting pot

Question 23

What was an effect of immigration?

Accepted Answer

overcrowded cities

Question 24

What federal law reform required food to be labeled and be true?

Accepted Answer

Pure Food & Drug Act

Question 25

Womens suffrage was granted in which Amendment?

Accepted Answer

19th

Question 26

Which legislation was an exchange between Japan and US to stop immigration?

Accepted Answer

Gentlemen's Agreeement

Question 27

Which reform said citizens can propose laws or state constitutioinal amendments

Accepted Answer

initative

Question 28

Why did Americans develop nativist feelings?

Accepted Answer

Job Competition

Question 29

All of the following are reason people did not like political machines excpet:

Accepted Answer

Did not help immigrants get jobs

Question 30

Separate but equal was upheld in what court case?

Accepted Answer

Plessy vs. Ferguson

Question 31

New immigrants from Greece, Poland and Czechs entered US where?

Accepted Answer

Ellis Island

Question 32

"New" Immigrants primarily came from?

Accepted Answer

southern and eastern Europe

Question 33

whick muckraker expossed the problems with the poor and tenement houses?

Accepted Answer

Jacob Riis

Question 34

All of the following are muckrakers except:

Accepted Answer

Robert LaFollete

Question 35

What organization was created by WEB Dubois to demand immediate equality?

Accepted Answer

NAACP

Unit 1B Review: Immigration, Urbanization, Progressivism, Gilded Age Politics

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Unit 1B Review: Immigration, Urbanization, Progressivism, Gilded Age Politics

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