American History II Midterm

Question 1

The right of citizens of the United States to vote

Accepted Answer

15th Amendment

Question 2

This task of rebuilding the former Confederate states and readmitting them to the Union was called ____________________.

Accepted Answer

Reconstruction

Question 3

A _______________ is the total control of an industry by a single producer.

Accepted Answer

Monopoly

Question 4

What form of transportation was vital for the West’s survival?

Accepted Answer

Railroads

Question 5

What event gave women the right to vote?

Accepted Answer

Suffrage Movement

Question 6

the group of people that controlled local government, jobs, and services in cities during the late 1800s early 1900s?

Accepted Answer

Political Machines

Question 7

The _________ freed slaves in seceded territories.

Accepted Answer

Emancipation Proclamation

Question 8

_ is unfair treatment, usually based on prejudice toward a certain race, ethnic group, religion, age group or gender.

Accepted Answer

Discrimination

Question 9

Who invented Morse Code?

Accepted Answer

Samuel Morse

Question 10

What is the name of the president who won the 1876 election? (after Grant)

Accepted Answer

Rutherford B. Hayes

Question 11

What amendment gave women the right to vote?

Accepted Answer

19th Amendment

Question 12

_________ is a tax charged on imported goods.

Accepted Answer

Tariff

Question 13

What do you call the action of setting someone or something apart from other people or things or being set apart?

Accepted Answer

Segregation

Question 14

Where did the Indian Removal Act send Native Americans who did not want to assimilate into "white culture"?

Accepted Answer

West of the Mississippi River

Question 15

What did the term “Nickelodeons” refer to in the late 1800s early 1900s?

Accepted Answer

Movie Thearte

Question 16

____ is discussions between an employer and union representatives over wages, hours, and working conditions.

Accepted Answer

Collective Bargaining

Question 17

What does the 17th Amendment do?

Accepted Answer

Allowed for the direct election of senators by the people

Question 18

What did the Chinese Exclusion Act do?

Accepted Answer

Prohibited Chinese workers from entering the U.S. for 10 Years

Question 19

In 1883, the American Railway Association created what?

Accepted Answer

Time Zones

Question 20

Which of the following is not one of the four outcomes of the Fugitive Slave Laws?

Accepted Answer

Allowed run away slaves to be free if they reached Northern Territory.

Question 21

____ are organizations of workers who seek better pay and working conditions?

Accepted Answer

Labor Unions

Question 22

a system of farming were a farmer works the land for an owner who gives equipment and seed and gets a share of the crop.

Accepted Answer

Sharecropping

Question 23

Which amendment granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States

Accepted Answer

14th Amendment

Question 24

The Kansas-Nebraska Act set up what idea when determining whether the state was a free or slave state?

Accepted Answer

Popular Sovereignty

Question 25

_____ is the policy of extending a nation’s rule over other territories and countries.

Accepted Answer

Imperialism

Question 26

What were people called that had several goals for fixing urban problems, improving government, and regulating business?

Accepted Answer

Progressives

Question 27

Who was the general who died in the Battle of Little Bighorn?

Accepted Answer

General Custer

Question 28

Who invented the airplane?

Accepted Answer

Wilbur & Orville Wright

Question 29

How many hours did workers work on average in the late 1800s and early 1900s?

Accepted Answer

84

Question 30

Which act will outlaw the use of, or the attempt to make a monopoly?

Accepted Answer

Sherman Antitrust Act

Question 31

Who invented the telephone?

Accepted Answer

Alexander Bell

Question 32

_____ believes that the government should own resources and operate major industries on behalf of all the people.

Accepted Answer

Socialism

Question 33

What was one of the biggest challenges of coming to America?

Accepted Answer

Finding a Job

Question 34

Why did reading and the production of magazines and newspapers begin to grow in the late 1800s early 1900s?

Accepted Answer

All of the Above

Question 35

What percentage of the popular vote did Lincoln receive in the 1860 presidential election?

Accepted Answer

40%

Question 36

What treaty did Mexico sign after losing the Mexican American War?

Accepted Answer

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Question 37

Who invented the assembly line?

Accepted Answer

Henry Ford

Question 38

______ is a policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups.

Accepted Answer

Isolationism

Question 39

Who invented the Incandescent Light Bulb?

Accepted Answer

Thomas Edison

Question 40

What do you call someone who starts a business?

Accepted Answer

Entrepreneurs

Question 41

Roosevelt was the leader of the First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry. What was the nickname of this group?

Accepted Answer

Rough Riders

Question 42

_____ are towns that seemed to pop up overnight near these mining sites.

Accepted Answer

Boomtowns

Question 43

Which of the following was an example of corruption done by the people above?

Accepted Answer

All of the Above

Question 44

The Compromise of 1820 had to be made after which state wanted to be admitted as a state?

Accepted Answer

Missouri

Question 45

A/An ____________ is a building in which several families live in a single room or apartment.

Accepted Answer

Tenement

Question 46

_____ were people who adapt to the environment and unusual conditions by developing new farming methods and tools?

Accepted Answer

Sodbusters

Question 47

______ means the process of becoming similar to something.

Accepted Answer

Assimilation

American History II Midterm

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American History II Midterm

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