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US History SOL 8
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1
Who believed the way to equality was through vocational and economic success?
JFK
Booker T. Washington
WEB DuBois
Ida B. Wells
2
What was the practice in the 1900s of trying to control who reproduces and who doesn't?
Eugenics
Hereditary Manipulation
Science
Genetic Engineering
3
Who believed education was meaningless without equality and helped start the NAACP?
John Lewis
Ida B. Wells
WEB DuBois
Booker T. Washington
4
The years immediately before and after the Civil War were the era of the ___
Slaveholder
Bats
American Cowboy
Locusts
5
Who led an anti-lynching campaign and called for courts to take action to help blacks?
Booker T. Washington
Ida B. Wells
Martin Luther King Jr.
Malcolm X
6
Lincoln Steffens wrote
The Shame of Cities
to muckrake the bad conditions in cities due to overcrowding and such.
False
True
7
Who invented the airplane?
Wright Brothers
Thomas Edison
Alexander Graham Bell
Henry Ford
8
Who was the financial tycoon?
John D. rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
Cornelius Vanderbilt
JP Morgan
9
Who was the oil tycoon?
JP Morgan
Andrew Carnegie
Cornelius Vanderbilt
John D. Rockefeller
10
Which of the following groups DID NOT labor in coal mines of the east?
Irish
Poles
Italians
Slavs
11
Who perfected the assembly line?
Alexander Graham Bell
Wright Brothers
Henry Ford
Thomas Edison
12
What public accommodation was essential in helping immigrants assimilate to American life?
Public Schools
Prisons
Soup kitchens
Social workers
13
What court case said that separate but equal did not violate the Constitution and was ok?
Brown v. Board of Education
Gibbons v. Ogden
Plessy v. Ferguson
Marbury v. Madison
14
Who was the leader of the American Federation of Labor?
Andrew Carnegie
Samuel Gompers
WEB Dubois
15
What means government should interfere the LEAST amount possible in the economy?
Libertarianism
Laissez-faire
Spider2YBanana
Conservatism
16
What immigrant group is known for their help in building the Transcontinental Railroad?
Japanese
German
Chinese
Italians
17
Many countries melding into one way of American life is known as what?
Diffusion
Oxidization
Gittin'R'Dun
Melting Pot/Assimilation
18
Carrie Chapman Catt & _________ were strong leaders of the women's suffrage movement.
Prudence McFarley
Hillary Clinton
Alice Paul
Liv Tyler
19
Referendum, initiative, and recall were 3 progressive accomplishments in __ governments.
local
national
state
20
America grew between the Civil War and WWI because of the wealth of natural resources and navigable ____
Cacti
Roads
Estuaries
Rivers
21
European immigrants entered America through ___
Long Island
Statin Island
Ellis Island
Angel Island
22
Who invented the light bulb?
Henry Ford
Alexander Graham Bell
Wright Brothers
Thomas Edison
23
Between Civil War & WWI the US transformed into what kind of economy?
egalitarian
industrial
agricultural
totalitarian
24
Who was the muckraker that muckraked the meat packing industry with their book
The Jungle?
Ida B Wells
Lincoln Steffens
Ida Tarbell
Upton Sinclair
25
What gave free public land in the western territories to settlers who would live on and farm it?
Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
Homestead Act of 1862
Proclamation of 1763
26
Following the Civil War the westward movement of settlers intensified between the ___ and Pacific
Atlantic Ocean
Appalachian Mountains
Ivanhoe
Mississippi River
27
What provided protection from personal liabilities in corporations?
limited liability
gas shortages
labor unions
the bessemer process
28
People found jobs in cities but lived in harsh conditions in ___ or slums.
Boxes
Ghettos
Hoods
Tenements
29
Which is an example of a leisure activity in the late 1800s/early 1900s?
Sports/Baseball Games
Bingo
Vaudeville Shows
Amusement Parks and Fairs
30
New York City was the first city to begin the construction of a __
Phone Booth
Airplane
Subway
Train
31
Who was the steel tycoon?
Andrew Carnegie
John D. Rockefeller
JP Morgan
Cornelius Vanderbilt
32
What amendment to the Constitution is the prohibition amendment?
18
21
19
17
33
Southerners and African Americans moved ___ to seek new opportunities after the Civil War.
west
south
north
east
34
During the early 20th century African Americans began the ___ to northern cities.
Great Migration
Great Immigration
Trail of Tears
35
The Progressive Movement was caused by __
Raccoons and Comics
Schools and the stock market
Robber barons and the Gilded Age
Laziness and overspeculation
36
What Amendment is the women's rights amendment?
18th
19th
17th
16th
37
What prevents any business structure that restrains trade (monopolies)?
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Clayton Anti-trust Act
Proclamation of 1763
38
Who wrote
The History of the Standard Oil Company
to muckrake monopolistic companies?
Ya momma
Ida Tarbell
Upton Sinclair
Lincoln Steffens
39
Who invented the telephone?
Wright Brothers
Alexander Graham Bell
Henry Ford
Thomas Edison
40
After reconstruction, many southern state governments passed ________________ laws that separated races.
White Privilege
Jim Crow
Black Code
KKK