PVHS US History S1 Final Review

Question 1

Which is the correct order of Progressive Era Presidents?

Accepted Answer

Teddy Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson

Question 2

President who believed that American foreign policy in Latin America should include investment called "Dollar Diplomacy"

Accepted Answer

William Howard Taft

Question 3

Immigrants from Northern & Western Europe were the majority during what time?

Accepted Answer

Before the 1870s

Question 4

John D. Rockefeller's business strategy of buying out competition in the same part of an industry, leads to monopoly

Accepted Answer

Horizontal Integration

Question 5

Who argued for African Americans getting all legal, social, and political rights immediately b/c of Amendments 14 & 15?

Accepted Answer

W.E.B. Dubois

Question 6

What the name for groups of corrupt officials that controlled a city's gov via fraud, bribery, intimidation, graft, etc?

Accepted Answer

Political Machine

Question 7

What does the business strategy of Vertical Integration do?

Accepted Answer

Moves every aspect of the chain of production into one company

Question 8

Change to the Constitution gave citizenship to all people born in the US and equal protection of the law to all citizens

Accepted Answer

14th Amendment

Question 9

What farming system in the south, after the Civil War, that led to African-Americans being in debt and tied to the land?

Accepted Answer

Sharecropping

Question 10

Who was the leader of the National Women's Party who advocated for an Amendment to guarantee women the right to vote?

Accepted Answer

Alice Paul

Question 11

President who created the United States Forest Service and oversaw the building of the Panama Canal.

Accepted Answer

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 12

What does the 13th Amendment do?

Accepted Answer

Abolishes Slavery

Question 13

What company did muckraker Ida Tarbell expose as corrupt?

Accepted Answer

Standard Oil

Question 14

What was Meat Inspection Act trying to ensure?

Accepted Answer

Cleanliness and Safety in food production facilities

Question 15

Which cavalry commander was killed by the Sioux and Comanche at 1876's Battle of Little Bighorn

Accepted Answer

George Armstrong Custer

Question 16

Blacklists are a tactic used by businesses to do what?

Accepted Answer

Discourage or prevent workers from joining unions

Question 17

Which Robber/Captain created US Steel by purchasing steel businesses & Carnegie Steel?

Accepted Answer

Morgan

Question 18

Because they were thought to be taking mining & railroad jobs from Americans, The Chinese Exclusion Act did what?

Accepted Answer

Limited Immigration

Question 19

Offering 160 Reservation acres to farm & citizenship after 25 years to help Native Americans assimilate was the goal of?

Accepted Answer

The Dawes Act

Question 20

What was the goal of Poll taxes, Grandfather clauses, & Literacy tests?

Accepted Answer

To limit voting rights of African Americans

Question 21

Who used the Sherman Antitrust Act to break up monopolies?

Accepted Answer

Roosevelt & Taft

Question 22

Change to the US Constitution that gave the citizens of the US the direct election of Senators.

Accepted Answer

17th Amendment

Question 23

Assimilation of Native Americans into US Society was the primary goal of?

Accepted Answer

Carlisle Boarding School

Question 24

The Populist Party arose because Farmers & Laborers claimed WHAT limited their prosperity?

Accepted Answer

The Gold Standard

Question 25

What is Muckraking?

Accepted Answer

Type of journalism that exposes problems in economy, society, and politics

Question 26

This negative term described powerful business leaders who lacked ethics and harmed laborers.

Accepted Answer

Robber Baron

Question 27

Nativists believed a group was harmful to America - What group?

Accepted Answer

Immigrants from Southern & Eastern Europe

Question 28

What's a positive term used to describe business leaders who grew the economy, grew tech, and practiced philanthropy?

Accepted Answer

Captain of Industry

Question 29

Choose any/all goals of ALL Labor Unions

Accepted Answer

Safer Conditions, Better Hours, Better Pay

Question 30

In what way were new immigrants after the 1870s different from the old immigrants who came earlier?

Accepted Answer

They were less educated and mostly poor

Question 31

The Ghost Dance was a ritual designed to drive away white settlers, the reaction to it is know as the Massacre at...?

Accepted Answer

Wounded Knee

Question 32

The 13th, 14th, & 15th Amendments are collectively known as?

Accepted Answer

The Reconstruction Amendments

Question 33

What company was contracted to build the transcontinental railroad from West to East starting in Sacramento, CA?

Accepted Answer

Central Pacific

Question 34

Change to the Constitution that prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcohol in the United States

Accepted Answer

18th Amendment

Question 35

The 16th, 17th, 18th, & 19th Amendments are collectively known as?

Accepted Answer

The Progressive Era Amendments

Question 36

Constitutional Amendment was created to collect income taxes from the general public in order to decrease the wealth gap

Accepted Answer

16th Amendment

Question 37

Eliminate the power of corrupt political machines and bosses to give power to the people was a goal of reformers from...

Accepted Answer

The Progressive Era

Question 38

Booker T. Washington was was criticized by black intellectuals because he advocated for what?

Accepted Answer

Economic fairness over political rights

Question 39

What are Jim Crow Laws?

Accepted Answer

Laws that segregated African Americans and limited their voting rights.

Question 40

What term for a period in the late 1800s was coined by mustachioed author Mark Twain?

Accepted Answer

The Gilded Age

Question 41

In what industry did Cornelius Vanderbilt operate?

Accepted Answer

Shipping & Railroads

Question 42

What was one result of the rapid industrial development that occurred in the U.S. during the late 1800s?

Accepted Answer

An increase in the rate of urbanization

Question 43

Period in US when wealth inequality, disease, immigration, & labor issues went with industry, economic, & tech growth

Accepted Answer

Gilded Age

Question 44

Which African American reformer and Muckraking journalist advocated for laws against lynching?

Accepted Answer

Ida B. Wells

Question 45

Which author & book resulted in the passage of laws that regulated the meat-packing industry and protected consumers?

Accepted Answer

Upton Sinclair/The Jungle

Question 46

Change to the US Constitution that guaranteed that the right to vote cannot be denied or abridged based upon sex

Accepted Answer

19th Amendment

Question 47

The 1862 Pacific Railway Act lead to the construction of what?

Accepted Answer

The Transcontinental Railroad

Question 48

What immigrant processing facility processed people primarily from Southern & Eastern Europe?

Accepted Answer

Ellis Island

Question 49

Even though more monopolies were broken up in Taft's 4-year-term, which president was known as "The Trustbuster?"

Accepted Answer

Teddy Roosevelt

Question 50

Period after Civil War when the United States readmitted Rebel States into the Union and address the formerly enslaved

Accepted Answer

Reconstruction

Question 51

Which Robber/Captain popularized using wealth to benefit society via philanthropy?

Accepted Answer

Carnegie

Question 52

Author whose book "The Jungle" exposed the poor working conditions and unsanitary processes of the meatpacking industry.

Accepted Answer

Upton Sinclair

Question 53

Why did Haymarket Square Strike lead to several labor leaders being arrested and hung?

Accepted Answer

A bomb was thrown at police when they broke the rally up

Question 54

President who was in office during WWI and worked to create the League of Nations after the war.

Accepted Answer

Woodrow Wilson

Question 55

Change to the US Constitution that says that the right to vote could not be denied based on race/color/past enslavement.

Accepted Answer

15th Amendment

Question 56

What does Laissez-faire economic policy do?

Accepted Answer

Allowed businesses to operate free from regulation or restraint

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