Name
Class
Date
PRACTICE TEST
ISSUES OF THE GILDED AGE
Key Terms and People
Directions: Match the definitions in Column I with the terms in Column II. Write the correct
letter in each blank.
Column I
1. African American leader who demanded
full and immediate equality
2. tool used to prevent African Americans
from voting
3. political group that sought to decrease
farming costs and increase crop prices
4. Democratic presidential candidate who
supported “free silver”
5. organizations that brought farmers together
to sell their crops collectively
6. Republican winner of the 1896 presidential
election
Column II
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
h.
i.
W.E.B. Du Bois
Ida B. Wells
Las Gorras Blancas
Oliver H. Kelley
Farmers’ Alliances
Populist Party
spoils system
poll tax
William Jennings
Bryan
j. William McKinley
7. group that destroyed railroad tracks to
protect Mexican American land claims
8. journalist who worked to stop the lynching
of African Americans
9. trend of awarding loyalty to a political party
with government jobs
10. Minnesota farmer who founded the Grange
Key Concepts
Directions: Write the letter of the best answer or ending in each blank.
11. The Jim Crow laws
a. kept whites and blacks separate.
b. allowed Mexican Americans to own land.
c. gave women the right to vote.
12. Which of the following called for African Americans to “pull themselves
up from their own bootstraps”?
a. W.E.B. Du Bois
b. Booker T. Washington
c. Ida B. Wells
13. Why did Chinese immigrants face violence on the West Coast?
a. Whites blamed them for taking “white” jobs.
b. Ranchers and railroads wanted their land.
c. They held protests to demand voting rights.
Directions: Use the timeline below to answer question 14.
14. According to the timeline, what happened in 1898?
a. Women won the right to vote.
b. Mexican Americans gained land rights.
c. Chinese Americans won protection of their citizenship.
15. Which of the following was arrested for voting in an election in
New York?
a. Susan B. Anthony
b. Ida B. Wells
c. Frances Willard
16. Which of the following worked to ban the sale of liquor?
a. Susan B. Anthony
b. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
c. Frances Willard
17. Which of the following used political cartoons to show corruption?
a. Thomas Nast
b. Mark Twain
c. William Tweed
18. Which of the following supported high tariffs and the gold standard?
a. Democratic Party
b. Populist Party
c. Republican Party
_____ 19. In the late 1800s, farmers across the nation organized to demand
a. lower crop prices.
b. regulation of railroad and grain elevator rates.
c. dismantling of farm cooperatives.
20. The Populist Party
a. opposed government ownership of railroads.
b. provided farmers with low-interest loans.
c. called for the coinage of silver to fight low crop prices.
These are possible Short Answer & Extended Response questions that could be on your test/exam
in the future. You should read over them. See if you could answer them… If not, you need to take
time to see what your answer would be and double check with your book and notes. You do NOT
have to complete them at this time.
Document-Based Assessment
Directions: Read the quotations below. Then, on a separate sheet of paper, answer the questions
that follows.
Draw Inferences
What does this ruling imply happened between supervisors and Chinese
laborers in this case?
Interpret Point of View
Why does Mark Twain call the economic and social conditions
depicted in his novel “an entirely ideal state of society”?
Critical Thinking
Compare and Contrast
During the late 1800s, African Americans, Chinese immigrants,
and women all faced discrimination. Select two of these groups
and answer the following questions: How were the issues they
faced similar? How were the issues different?
Synthesize Information
What were three major problems faced by farmers
after the Civil War? Explain how one of the following—the
Grange, the Farmers’ Alliance, or the Populist Party—worked to
solve one of the problems.