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1 NINE WEEKS EXAM
Multiple Choice. Choose the letter of the best answer choice.
1. Identify 4 major inventions was that were a part of post-Civil War industrialization?
2. In the case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that
3. According to the cartoon below, what seems to be the main issue associated with Prohibition?
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Direct election of senators
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Women’s suffrage
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Direct primary elections
4. What was the immediate effect of the Progressive reforms listed in the above box?
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NAACP founded
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Pure Food and Drug Act passed
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19th Amendment ratified
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Clayton Antitrust Act passed
5. The events in the box above are all associated with which period in U.S. history?
6. The building of roads and canals in the United States in the early 19 th century resulted in –
A.
B.
C.
D.
7. Which of the following would be a primary source for a historian writing an account of the Battle of
Wounded Knee?
A biography of a battle participant
A diary of a cavalry officer who participated in the battle
A history book on the Indian Wars
An interview with a descendant of Sitting Bull
8. As a result of the passage of the Homestead Act in 1862, the Great Plains –
A.
B.
C.
D.
9. The opening of the Erie Canal in 1825 –
Ended the use of natural waterways for trade
Increased trade between the Midwest and the East Coast
Diminished the importance of railroads
Improved the delivery of cotton and rice to markets in the South
A.
B.
C.
D.
10. Which of the following date ranges best completes the diagram below?
1776-1781
1846-1848
1812-1814
1861-1865
11. After the Civil War, many states passed Jim Crow laws intended to counteract constitutional
amendments that granted former slaves –
12. Which technological advancement from the 19th
century resulted in all the effects listed to the right?
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Time travel reduced
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Western migration encouraged
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Open range closed
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Native Americans forced off their land
13. The development of both the telegraph and telephone contributed to the economic expansion of
the United States by increasing the scale and speed of nationwide communications.
14. The excerpt below addresses which Progressive Issue?
15. At the end of the 19th century, most owners of big businesses disliked competition because it
Reduced profits
16. As a result of increased immigration to the United States in the late 1800s and early 1900s, many
immigrant families lived in tenements because there was a lack of affordable housing in
overcrowded cities.
17. Identify two technological innovations that most directly enabled the construction of skyscrapers
throughout U.S. cities in the late 1800’s?
18. Industrialization during the late 1800s contributed to the development of organized labor because it
created low-wage, low-skill jobs that made employees easy to replace.
A.
B.
C.
D.
19. Why were labor strikes in the late 19th century not as effective in industries that depended largely
on unskilled workers?
Most unskilled workers were paid high wages
Unskilled workers could be replaced more easily than skilled workers
Unskilled workers were not allowed to join unions
Many unskilled workers were deported for supporting unions
20. How did the introduction of the assembly line affect the U.S. automobile industry in the early 20th
century? Think about costs and supply/demand.
Overcrowded
Housing
A.
B.
C.
D.
21. Which of the following best completes the diagram?
Population Growth
U.S. Trade Policies
Supply-Side Economics
Immigration Restrictions
Air Pollution
Limited Water
Supply
?
Dwindling Resources
22. This photograph shows child workers in a textile mill. Why did factories hire children for labor.
23. Which of the following completes the diagram below?
A. Higher wages
B. Increased Advertising
C. Installment buying
D. Assembly Line
?
Mass
Lower
Production
Costs
Increased
Sales
24. The illustration to the right demonstrates what issue
concerning problems in the cities.
Now, since we could see no hope for better times
through the old parties and have got together and
formed a new party … We want … better prices
for our produce; we want more money in
circulation to pay for our labor or our produce …
We are living in another man’s house, working
another man’s land …
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Let Us Quit the Old Party, 1892
25. It can best be concluded that the new political party discussed in the excerpt above would
represent the hopes of what group of people in America?
Much has been given us, and much will rightfully
be expected from us. We have duties to others
and duties to ourselves; and we can shirk neither.
We have become a great nation…
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Excerpt from Theodore Roosevelt’s
Inaugural Address, March 4, 1905
26. The excerpt most likely suggests that the United States should take what role in world affairs?
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Famous Rough Rider
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First American to win the Nobel Peace Prize
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Motto was “Speak softly and carry a big stick”
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Strengthened the U.S. Navy
27. Which 20th century U.S. leader is described by the above list?
28. How did President Theodore Roosevelt increased American involvement in world affairs?
29. Which Constitutional Amendment of made it possible for women to become full participants in
American political life?
It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of
liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided
by the democratic-republican government . . .
- Susan B. Anthony, 1872
30. According to the excerpt above, Susan B. Anthony believed the only way for women to acquire the
“blessings of liberty” was by —
Every piece of work in the shops moves; it may move on hooks on overhead
chains … it may travel on a moving platform or it may go by gravity, but the
point is that there is no lifting or trucking of anything other than materials.
- Henry Ford 1924
31. What revolutionary manufacturing method is Henry Ford describing in this excerpt?
Statement 1:
Many immigrants of the early 1900s in ethnic neighborhoods in large cities.
Statement 2: Schools, churches, and businesses were built and supported by the
immigrants of the early 1900s.
Statement 3: The immigrants of the early 1900s often had to live in poorly built,
overcrowded tenements.
Statement 4: Most of the immigrants of the early 1900s were criminals from the old country
who couldn’t be trusted.
32. Which of the statements above most clearly demonstrates a negative bias?
33. What was the primary motivation for passage of the Sixteenth Amendment?
34. Which of the following presidents is associated with the Bullmoose or Progressive Party?
35. Which three strategies were employed by woman suffragists to obtain their goal?
36. The primary goal of the NAACP was to: ___________________________________________
I hold that a corporation does ill if it seeks profit in restricting production . . . or seeking to achieve
monopoly by illegal . . . treatment of its competitors. . . . If, on the other hand, a corporation seeks profit
solely by . . . treating the public . . . and its rivals fairly: then such a corporation is behaving well. It is an
instrumentality of civilization operating to promote abundance by cheapening the cost of living so as to
improve conditions everywhere throughout the whole community.
—Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography, 1913
37. The main strategy that President Roosevelt’s administration used to stop the type of business practices
criticized in this excerpt was to —
A. establish the Federal Reserve System to regulate the money supply
B. urge the Interstate Commerce Commission to decrease corporate regulations
C. use the Sherman Antitrust Act to ensure competition in industry
D. lobby Congress to loosen restrictions on foreign exports
38. Which diagram shows how the completion of the
transcontinental railroad contributed to the closing of the
western frontier?
39. This informational poster illustrates —
A. the resentment shown toward immigrants for taking U.S.
jobs
B. a government effort to implement quotas on immigration
C. the movement to assimilate immigrants into U.S. culture
D. the requirement that immigrants become U.S. citizens
House in Milton, North Dakota, 1898
40. Homesteaders on the Great Plains found it necessary to build the type of house shown in
the photograph because :
37. Why did most immigrants to the US settle in cities?
Matching. Choose the letter of the term that matches the description.
A. recall
B. initiative
C. prohibition
D. referendum
E. muckrakers
AB. scientific management
AC. progressive movement
AD. 17th Amendment
AE. 18th Amendment
42. a procedure by which a proposed legislative measure can be submitted to a vote by the people
43. a bill initiated, or launched, by citizens.
44. allowed for the popular, or direct, election of U.S. senators.
45. one of the inspirations for the creation of assembly lines at the Ford Motor Company.
46. enabled voters to remove public officials from elected positions by forcing them to face an election
before the end of their term if enough voters requested it.
47. a term used to describe a journalist who exposed government abuses and big business corruption
to the readers of mass circulation magazines and newspapers.
48. members of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union fought for this cause by entering saloons,
singing, praying, and asking saloonkeepers to stop selling alcohol.
49. The images above by Jacob Riis sought to show American’s:
A. the benefits of having roommates when working in the cities.
B. the crowded conditions of prisons for adults and children of the era.
C. how difficult life was for the nation’s poor immigrants whom settled in America’s cities.
D. the hardships faced by women working in America’s textiles industries.
50. The people in the images above reflect:
A. The abuse and discrimination faced by Chinese immigrants as they entered through Angle Island.
B. One of four criteria immigrants had to meet in order to be allowed entry into the United States.
C. The government’s desire to end drug trafficking from Europe by searching all immigrants for
narcotics.
D. A reason why immigrants needed $25.00 to enter America in order to bribe customhouse officials.
51. Based upon the images it can be shown that as a result of new technologies of the industrial
revolution many
A. Immigrants flocked to the nation’s cities seeking jobs in the various new industries.
B. Bessemer process innovations flooded the home appliances market putting many farmers out of
work.
C. Farm laborers lost their jobs due to new technologies and headed to the cities in search of work.
D. New technologies from Japan and China led to a desire to restriction immigration for these groups.
E. Both A & C
52. As cities grew problems in housing, sanitation, transportation and political corruption led to reforms
such as
A. the development of settlement houses to help Americanize immigrants.
B. new building codes, public water and sewer projects, subway construction , and police and fire
depts.
C. new leaders focused upon ending corruption by electing “Boss Tweed” to mayor of New York in
1890.
D. Jane Addams “Hull House” and Chester Arthurs “Civil Service Examinations” for government jobs.
B
A
C
D
53. What is the correct sequence of the above pins?