Semester 1 Test Review U.S History (6th) IAVA

Question 1

Which social reformer was known for taking pictures of the hardships that immigrants faced?

Accepted Answer

Jacob Riis

Question 2

Which president served two non-consecutive terms during the late 1800s?

Accepted Answer

Grover Cleveland

Question 3

Which was part of President Wilson's Fourteen Points?

Accepted Answer

creating a world organization to prevent future wars

Question 4

What is a muckraker?

Accepted Answer

writer who exposes unsafe working conditions

Question 5

Which organization was led by William "Boss" Tweed during the late 1800s?

Accepted Answer

Tammany Hall

Question 6

Which civil rights leader believed that African Americans would gain economic freedom by first acquiring skills

Accepted Answer

Booker T. Washington

Question 7

From 1860 and 1900, which countries sent the most immigrants to the U.S?

Accepted Answer

Germany and Ireland

Question 8

What was the Teapot Dome scandal?

Accepted Answer

selling public oil reserves for personal profit

Question 9

What was the purpose of the 19th Amendment?

Accepted Answer

grant women the right to vote

Question 10

What is a monopoly?

Accepted Answer

Only one company makes a product.

Question 11

How can constitutional amendments get passed?

Accepted Answer

3/4 of the state legislatures must approve the amendment., 2/3 of Congress must pass the amendment.

Question 12

John Muir made a difference in which social reform movement?

Accepted Answer

preservation of wilderness

Question 13

Which problem did immigrants face in the late 1800s?

Accepted Answer

often poor and had few job skills, many could not speak English, many lived in crowded, unsanitary tenement slums

Question 14

Who made a fortune in the steel industry and then giving much of his wealth?

Accepted Answer

Andrew Carnegie

Question 15

Who was the first president of the American Federation of Labor?

Accepted Answer

Samuel Gompers

Question 16

Which political cartoonist exposed the corruption of Tammany Hall in New York in the late 1800s?

Accepted Answer

Thomas Nast

Question 17

What caused the Spanish-American War?

Accepted Answer

U.S believed the Spanish had sunk the U.S.S. Maine., Spanish authorities mistreated residents of Cuba.

Question 18

Who put his competitors out of business and made his company, Standard Oil?

Accepted Answer

John D. Rockefeller

Question 19

Which famous American author was born in Missouri with the name Samuel Langhorne Clemens?

Accepted Answer

Mark Twain

Question 20

Which tactics were used against African Americans in the South?

Accepted Answer

Jim Crow laws, poll taxes, lynching

Question 21

What is true about the Harlem Renaissance?

Accepted Answer

African American writers, musicians, and artists, gained national attention

Question 22

Which civil rights leader was unwilling to compromise his demand for full equality for African Americans?

Accepted Answer

W.E.B. DuBois

Question 23

The direct election of U.S. senators (17th Amendment) was a goal of which political movement?

Accepted Answer

Progressives

Question 24

Which territories did the U.S gain as a result of the Spanish-American War?

Accepted Answer

Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines

Question 25

Why did Americans want to restrict immigration?

Accepted Answer

unwilling to pay higher taxes, prejudiced against newcomers

Question 26

The Populist Party's platform included which reforms?

Accepted Answer

consumer protection and graduated income tax

Question 27

Who benefited from the prosperity of the late 1800s?

Accepted Answer

railroad owner and government worker, steel magnate and store owner

Question 28

In the late 1800s, what were sources of urban pollution?

Accepted Answer

horse-drawn transportation, overcrowded slums, coal-powered factories

Question 29

What did Attorney General Mitchell Palmer do?

Accepted Answer

created a "red scare"

Question 30

What invention helped long cattle drives make lots of money?

Accepted Answer

refrigerated rail cars

Question 31

What led to a system of time zones across America?

Accepted Answer

building the transcontinental railroad

Question 32

Which Nez Perce leader fought the U.S. Army rather than be forced to move his people to a reservation?

Accepted Answer

Chief Joseph

Question 33

Why did the public fear unions at first?

Accepted Answer

believed that some unions supported radical ideas

Question 34

Which was a response to the growing problem of alcoholism in America in the late 1800s?

Accepted Answer

temperance movement

Question 35

What is the best description of cowboy's work?

Accepted Answer

difficult and dangerous

Question 36

What is true about life in America during the late 1800s?

Accepted Answer

Railroad owners controlled much of the country's wealth., Social reformers drew attention to the nation's desperately poor.

Question 37

Who worked tirelessly to expose the dangers and awful working conditions of child labor?

Accepted Answer

Mother Jones

Semester 1 Test Review U.S History (6th) IAVA

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Semester 1 Test Review U.S History (6th) IAVA

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