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1
Associated with Andrew Carnegie, the "Gospel of Wealth" said:
That some businesses succeed because they are innately better than others
That the government should tax wealthy Americans heavily
That government should not regulate business in any way
The wealthy should donate money to charitable causes
2
Social Darwinism stated that:
Congress should preserve America's natural resources
Businesses have a responsibility not to hire child workers
It was okay for large companies to amass huge fortunes
Women should be given the right to vote
3
"Black codes" such as those enacted by Mississippi did all of the following
except
:
Actually helped Black Americans
Banned Black Americans from carrying weapons
Prohibited interracial marriages
Allowed for the imprisonment of "vagabonds" and "rogues"
4
The Roosevelt Corollary stated...
It was the government's job to improve workplace safety
America should adopt the gold standard
The U.S. could intervene throughout Latin America & the Caribbean
The U.S. did not need a large navy
5
This law facilitated the settling of the West by creating agricultural colleges.
Pacific Railroad Act
Morrill Land Grant Act
Homestead Act
Endangered Species Act
6
This law facilitated the settling of the West by providing funding for railroads.
Homestead Act
Sherman Antitrust Act
Pacific Railroad Act
Morrill Land Grant Act
7
This financial crisis was the beginning of the end of Reconstruction.
The Great Depression
Panic! At the Disco
The Panic of 1873
The Panic of 1837
8
Lochner v. New York:
Outlawed child labor
Demonstrated the Supreme Court's support for laissez-faire economics
Ensured that shirtwaist workers would experience safe working conditions
Created the idea of "separate but equal"
9
Which of the following pairs is correct?
Upton Sinclair: Food safety movement
Lincoln Steffens: Government reform movement
Ida Tarbell: "Trust busting" movement
Lewis Hine: Child labor movement
10
This law facilitated the settling of the West by providing 160 acres of farmland to farmers.
Sister Act
Morrill Land Grant Act
Homestead Act
Pacific Railroad Act
11
Which of the following was
not
a major goal of the Populists?
Government ownership of the railroads
To improve working conditions in factories
A progressive income tax paid mostly by the wealthy
An increased money supply that included both gold and silver
12
Perhaps the most famous example of Teddy Roosevelt's "big stick diplomacy" occurred
here
. A man, a plan, a canal....
Spain
China
Mexico
Panama
13
Which civil rights leader believed that if Black Americans got jobs, that would eventually lead to racial equality?
Ida B. Wells
W.E.B. DuBois
Woodrow Wilson
Booker T. Washington
14
True
or
False
: After Lincoln's assassination, Andrew Johnson did a lot to help the former slaves.
False
True
15
What were the Rough Riders?
The first professional baseball team
A militia led by Teddy Roosevelt during the Spanish-American War
Workers who built the transcontinental railroad
The first group to camp at Yosemite National Park
16
This amendment outlawed slavery:
14th
15th
13th
3rd
17
Proponents of the "New South" believed that the South should:
Encourage immigration in order to get cheap laborers
Industrialize
Eliminate agriculture altogether
Improve race relations
18
What social class benefitted
most
from the Industrial Revolution?
U.S. history class
The working class (blue collar workers)
The middle class (white collar workers)
19
What was the Ghost Dance?
A ritual performed before going into battle agains U.S. soldiers
A spiritual movement to restore Native American culture and lands
A popular dance move practiced at Indian boarding schools
A rain dance performed by Plains Indians
20
This amendment gave Black men the right to vote:
15th
14th
13th
3rd
21
I was a big reformer. I limited child labor, enacted Prohibition, and granted women the right to vote. Who am I?
Upton Sinclair
John Muir
Dick Dickensheets
Woodrow Wilson
22
What was the "Lost Cause" mythology?
The belief that the South needed better race relations
A glorification of the Old South and of the Confederacy
A belief that the South was to blame for starting the Civil War
The belief that the South needed to industrialize
23
A major factor in the Spanish-American War were exaggerated newspaper stories known as:
Yellow pages
Yellowstone
Yellow journalism
Muckraking
24
All of the following are examples of the failure of the "new" South
except:
The prevalence of "literacy tests" across the South after the Civil War
The establishment of the NAACP by W.E.B. DuBois
The high number of lynchings that occurred after the Civil War
The prevalence of sharecropping in the South after the Civil War
25
All of the following are examples of anti-immigrant "nativism" during the late 19th and early 20th century
except:
The Alien and Sedition Acts
The Chinese Exclusion Act
The "Gentlemen's Agreement" of 1907
The Reed-Johnson Act of 1924
26
Angry famers. South and Midwest. 1890s.
Progressives
Muckrakers
Populists
"Exodusters"
27
The Dawes Act ...
Provided money for African Americans to get an education
Forced Native Americans to speak English
Contributed to harmonious relations between Indians and white settlers
Forced Native Americans to farm individual plots of land & sell the rest
28
During the Reconstuction period, which of the following took significant steps to help African Americans?
Southern Democrats in Congress
Muckrakers
"Radical" Republicans in Congress
Homesteaders
29
Which of the following was
not
a new leisure activity that gained popularity during the Gilded Age?
Camping (especially at National Parks)
Spectator sports like professional baseball
Competitive chess boxing
Amusement parks like the one at Coney Park
30
Tenement apartments were...
Small, crowded, and unsanitary apartments in big cities
Where "homesteaders" on the Plains lived
Large and luxurious apartments located in the suburbs
About as sanitary as the freshman locker area
31
This event raised American concerns about workplace saftey during the Progressive era when 145 women died here.
The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
The Military Reconstruction At
The Homestead Strike
The Great Railroad Strike
32
Which of the following was a new business practice pioneered during the Industrial era?
Vertical Integration
Diagonal Integration
The Bessemer Process
Horizontal Integration
33
This group used terror and violence to intimidate African Americans during the Reconstruction era.
The Rough Riders
The Populists
The Ku Klux Klan
The Knights of Labor
34
True or False: Labor unrest in the 1800s like the Homestead Strike were successful in improving workers' lives.
False
True
35
This amendment granted African Americans full citizenship and equal rights under the law:
14th
15th
13th
3rd
36
Who/what was
laissez-faire
?
Letting things take their own course, without interfering
Conquering territories and exploiting their natural resources
Angry farmers in the 1890s who wanted the government to help them
Opposition to "new" immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe
37
Which of the following were causes of imperialism in the late 1800s?
Pseudo-scientific racism
A desire to compete with other "great powers" by acquiring colonies
New weapons that allowed for the conquest of non-industrialized nations
A desire to gain new natural resources
38
This organization operated as an early welfare agency, providing food, housing and medical aid after the Civil War.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation
The Freedmen's Bureau
The Bull Moose Party
The Better Business Bureau
39
Which of the following would have been viewed as a "old" immigrant?
A Russian Jew fleeing religious persecution
An Italian refugee fleeing political repression
A German farmer
A Czechoslovakian migrant seeking eployment in a U.S. factory
40
I was a big reformer: I broke up trusts, promoted conservationism, and advanced food safety. Who am I?
Franklin Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt
Kermit Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt
41
During the 1800s, the United States added which of the following territories?
Guano Islands in the Paciific and Cairbbean
Alaska
The Philippines
Hawaii
42
Which of the following was a challenge faced by workers during the Industrial Revolution?
Child labor
Long hours
Dangerous conditions
Low wages
43
Carrie Nation was:
Renonwed worldwide for her unsurpassed beauty
Known for her support of women's suffrage
A strong supporter of the temperance movement who destroyed saloons
A populist
44
All of the following were true of America during the Industrial Age (late 1800s & early 1900s): except:
America was rapidly urbanizing
America was experiencing a surge of "old" immigrants from Germany & the UK
Cities were being electrified
Residential suburbs were being developed
45
After the Sioux won
this battle
, the U.S. army used it to justify forcing Plains Indians onto reservations.
Manila Bay
San Juan Hill
Lexington and Concord
Little Bighorn
46
All of the following groups moved to the West in the mid/late 1800s
except:
"Exodusters"
Miners
Progressives
Cowboys
47
Indian Boarding Schools were:
Schools where Native Americans were forcibly assimilated to White culture
Schools built by Native Americans on resevation lands
Schools where Indians learned about their own culture and history
Schools where homesteaders learned from Native American teachers
48
All of the following were key businessman during the Industrial Age
except:
John D. Rockefeller
William McKinley
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Andrew Carnegie
49
Which of the following would be considered a "pull" factor to an immigrant?
Greater economic opportunity in another country
A civil war in one's home country
A famine in one's home country
Religious persecution in one's home country
50
All of the following were interested in better working conditons for industrial workers
except
:
The American Federation of Labor
The Knights of Labor
The Populists
Anarchists
51
Which of the following was a cause supported by Progressive reformers?
Food safety
Temperance/ Prohibition
Women's suffrage
Conservationism
52
What was the Reconstruction Era?
The process of bringing ex-Confederate States back into the Union
The rebuilding the Triangle Shirtwaist factory
America acquiring overseas colonies and becoming a world power
The decade leading up to the Civil War
53
In exchange for allowing him to become president, Rutherford B. Hayes promised white Southerners:
Free Waffle House for life
They would never have to go to school again
An end to Reconstruction
All the Sage-made chicken they could eat
54
What infamous Supreme Court ruling paved the way for racial segregation by okaying the idea of "separate but equal"?
Plessy v. Fergusson
Brown v. Board of Education
Lochner v. New York
Roe v. Wade
55
Political machines like the Tammany Hall machine operated by G.W. Plunkitt were:
Voting machines that were needed once women gained the right to vote
Corrupt political organizations that emerged during the Industrial era
Journalists who wanted to expose the problems of American cities
Strong propents of the "good government" movemet
56
In general, Progressives were most interested in which of the following?
Promoting settlement of the U.S. West in the decades after the Civil War
Helping farmers
Fixing urban problems caused by rapid industrialization and urbanization
Opposing Jim Crow laws
57
The U.S. became a major world power after winning a "splendid" little war in 1898 against:
England
Spain
Panama
Djibouti
58
Which of the following individuals established the NAACP to push for immediate racial equality?
Ida Tarbell
W.E.B. DuBois
Woodrow Wilson
Booker T. Washington
59
The sinking of
this ship
contributed to America's decision to declare war on Spain.
The Titanic
The Lusitania
The Maine
The Mayflower
60
A large number of ghost dancers were killed by U.S. troops at:
Fort Ticonderoga
The Alamo
San Juan Hill
Wounded Knee