Unit 6 Test U.S. History

Question 1

What are 3 main reasons that imigrants came to America from other counties?

Accepted Answer

all of the above

Question 2

What did the AFL help with?

Accepted Answer

Both of the above

Question 3

What did Andrew Carnegie use his money to build?

Accepted Answer

Libraries

Question 4

What did Lillian Wald help people in New York get?

Accepted Answer

Both of the above

Question 5

What did Gompers help start?

Accepted Answer

the American Federation of Labor (AFL)

Question 6

Why was life hard for factory workers?

Accepted Answer

Both of the above

Question 7

What does it mean to be "on strike"?

Accepted Answer

to stop working

Question 8

Hines took pictures of people working in factories. What new laws were written becuase of his picture taking?

Accepted Answer

Laws that did not all children to work in factories

Question 9

How did Jane Addams help people in Chicago?

Accepted Answer

She started a house that has workers in it to help poor people

Question 10

What is a labor union?

Accepted Answer

Wokrers who work together to make their jobs better

Question 11

W.E.B. Du Bois helped start a group called the NAACP. What did this group work for?

Accepted Answer

To end disrimination.

Question 12

What did Theofore Roosevelt do to help coal miners and many other union workers?

Accepted Answer

Mine owners must work with the unoins to give workers better conditons

Question 13

What type of work did many Mexican immigrants do in the United States?

Accepted Answer

Farmers and Miners

Question 14

Why did Jewish immigrants come to the U.S.?

Accepted Answer

Religious Freedom

Question 15

What were 3 problems that immigrants faced once living in the United States?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 16

Where did Chinese immigrants settle?

Accepted Answer

California

Question 17

What did Alice Hamilton do to help factory workers?

Accepted Answer

She taught factory owners how to make factories safer

Question 18

When could immigrants become citizens?

Accepted Answer

After they lived in the United States for 5 years

Question 19

What was the new stronger form of iron called?

Accepted Answer

Steel

Question 20

Who owned most of the oil refineries in the United States?

Accepted Answer

John D. Rockerfeller

Question 21

Who else had to work in factories because factories workers did not earn enough money?

Accepted Answer

Kids of factory workers

Question 22

What got passed because people found out about the conditions in the meat packing industry?

Accepted Answer

The pure Food and Drug Act.

Question 23

What were progressives?

Accepted Answer

People who worked for reform or change

Question 24

Who owned most of the steel factories in the United States?

Accepted Answer

Andrew Carnegie

Question 25

Why did many Irish Immigrants come to the United States?

Accepted Answer

There was not enoguh food in Ireland known as the Great Irish Famine

Question 26

How did factory workers help themselves?

Accepted Answer

They started labor unions

Question 27

DId Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton live to see what they fought for happen?

Accepted Answer

No

Question 28

How were African American immigrants different than the rest of the immigrants?

Accepted Answer

They were forced to become as slaves instead of choosing to come to America

Question 29

What was Susan B. Anthony known for?

Accepted Answer

Someone who worked for women&#x27;s rights and wanted women to vote

Question 30

Upton Sinclair wrote a book about what industry in the U.S.?

Accepted Answer

meat industry

Question 31

How did life in the United States change after the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

Many Americans to the cities and worked in factories and other businesses

Question 32

What happened to Susan B. Anothy when she tried to vote?

Accepted Answer

She was arrested

Question 33

What did Addams create the first of in Chicago?

Accepted Answer

The first playground

Question 34

What did Janie Porter Barrett do in Virgina to help Afican American girls?

Accepted Answer

She started school to help Afican American girls who had been in jail

Question 35

What did Muckrakers do?

Accepted Answer

Worked to correct problems by telling them what was going on.

Question 36

How did Ida Tarbell chane the Standard Oil caompany?

Accepted Answer

She broke up the big company into 33 smaller companies.

Question 37

Did the two men in charge of the oil refineries and steel factories take care of their workers?

Accepted Answer

No - they were not paid or treated well

Question 38

President Roosevelt worked for reform in Conservation, what does conservation mean?

Accepted Answer

Conservation means protecting natural resources.

Question 39

What two jobs did many Chinese immigrants do in the US?

Accepted Answer

Miners and Railroad workers

Unit 6 Test U.S. History

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Unit 6 Test U.S. History

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