Name: _______________________________________________
Date: __________
Choose the letter of the best answer. (4 points each)
____ 1. The main immigration processing station in San Francisco was called
A. Ellis Island.
B. Tammany Hall.
C. Angel Island.
D. Hull House.
____ 2. The main goal of the Chinese Exclusion Act was to
A. decrease Chinese immigration.
B. create segregated classrooms.
C. settle a disagreement between China and the United States.
D. stop Chinese Americans from attending school in the United States.
____ 3. The main goal of the Americanization movement was to
A. limit the number of immigrants entering the country.
B. assimilate people of various cultures into the dominant culture.
C. improve the living conditions in America's largest cities.
D. encourage people to move from the country to the city.
____ 4. The row house was a new type of housing that conserved space by
A. rising ten or more stories high.
B. combining air vents with trash disposal areas.
C. sharing side walls with other buildings.
D. enclosing a park shared by several buildings.
____ 5. Settlement houses were founded in the late 1800s by
A. new immigrants.
B. social reformers.
C. political machines.
D. industrial workers.
____ 6. The illegal use of political influence for personal gain is called
A. nativism.
B. civil service.
C. gentlemen's agreement.
D. graft.
____ 7. Tammany Hall was the name of
A. a famous settlement house.
B. a New York Customs House.
C. a New York City political machine.
D. the federal courthouse in New York City.
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____ 8. An example of patronage would be
A. bribing a government official.
B. assassinating a public official.
C. saying one thing and doing another.
D. appointing a friend to a political position.
____ 9. The Pendleton Civil Service Act required
A. applicants for government jobs to pass examinations.
B. native-born Americans to treat immigrants with courtesy.
C. government workers to renounce all party loyalties.
D. cities to provide services such as clean water to their residents.
Using the exhibit, choose the letter of the best answer. (2 points each)
____ 10. Which area had the greatest population density in 1870?
A. the West Coast
B. the area around Dallas
C. the area around Charleston
D. the northeast Atlantic coast
____ 11. Which of the following is not true about changes in the U.S. population between 1870 and
1890?
A. Population density in the East increased.
B. Population density near major cities increased.
C. Total population stayed about the same but shifted to urban areas.
D. Some areas of the country attracted more new settlers than others.
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____ 12. Which of the following do the majority of the cities shown on the map share in common?
A. Their surrounding areas contained more than 800, 000 people in 1870.
B. Their surrounding areas contained fewer than 80, 000 people in 1890.
C. They are located near large bodies of water.
D. Their population density decreased in the late 19th century.
____ 13. Which northern city had the most people living in or near it in 1890?
A. Dallas
B. New York
C. Portland
D. Detroit
____ 14. Based on your knowledge of the chapter, which of the following factors influenced the
population change in the Los Angeles and San Francisco regions?
A. increased immigration from Asia
B. inadequate means of transportation
C. decreased popularity in coastal living
D. lack of industrial growth
Choose the letter of the best answer. (4 points each)
____ 15. What was the original purpose of the row house?
A. to alleviate slum conditions
B. to integrate lower-class neighborhoods
C. to provide inner-city housing for wealthy families
D. to provide single-family homes for working-class families
____ 16. Which of the following was the main interest of the Social Gospel movement?
A. religious reform
B. political reform
C. social reform
D. economic reform
____ 17. The factor that prevented the greatest number of children from attending public high schools
was
A. racism.
B. poverty.
C. language differences.
D. transportation problems.
____ 18. Southern states sometimes used a grandfather clause to allow them to
A. keep uneducated whites from exercising their right to vote.
B. distinguish between recent immigrants and longtime citizens.
C. keep African Americans from voting while allowing whites to do so.
D. deny voting rights to African Americans who passed the literacy test.
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____ 19. Cities in the late 19th century expanded with the development of all of the following except
A. subways.
B. skyscrapers.
C. airplanes.
D. suspension bridges.
____ 20. Skyscrapers were made possible by the invention of
A. safer fire escapes.
B. larger bricks and stronger cement.
C. the elevator and a steel framework.
D. the airplane and the bicycle.
____ 21. All of the following became popular around the turn of the 20th century except
A. European literature.
B. professional baseball.
C. vaudeville theater.
D. amusement parks.
____ 22. Jim Crow laws were laws that
A. separated the races.
B. denied citizenship to Asian immigrants.
C. taxed voters.
D. promoted discrimination against women.
____ 23. All of the following were trends in education around 1900 except
A. more students attending both elementary and high school.
B. immigrants becoming "Americanized" by attending public schools.
C. growth of kindergartens.
D. most African Americans attending high school.
____ 24. Which development in the late 1900s allowed cities to expand outward?
A. skyscrapers
B. new railroad lines
C. horse-drawn streetcars
D. four-lane highways
____ 25. Which development lowered the price of newspapers to a penny a copy?
A. a printing press that simultaneously printed both sides of the paper
B. a lower price for American timber used by paper mills
C. a drop in the wages of newspaper delivery boys
D. a new lightweight engine developed for use in aircraft
____ 26. Which of the following was not true of public education around 1900?
A. High school curriculums were expanding to include science and civics.
B. Kindergartens were being added to elementary school programs.
C. The number of blacks attending public school was rapidly catching up with whites.
D. State laws required students to attend school from ages 8 to 14.
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____ 27. The popularity of bicycling and amusement parks reflected which trend of the 1900s?
A. wider public access to the fine arts
B. an interest in leisure activities
C. a rising literacy rate
D. new ways of shopping and advertising
____ 28. How did George Eastman contribute to an explosion in the popularity of photography?
A. by taking photographs of the Wright brothers' first flight at Kitty Hawk
B. by inventing a camera that was larger and heavier than most
C. by inventing a camera that could develop pictures on the spot
D. by inventing a camera that used roll film instead of heavy glass plates
____ 29. How did the introduction of the bicycle affect women's lives?
A. It led to numerous injuries among women riders.
B. It made many women feel more independent.
C. It gave women more time to spend with their children.
D. It started a fitness craze among women.
____ 30. Which type of fiction was very popular around the turn of the 20th century?
A. realistic portrayals of American life
B. Western adventure tales
C. novels about the grand life of the upper class
D. stories about sports heroes
____ 31. Which of the following most allowed manufacturers to build their factories away from rivers?
A. electricity
B. steel beams
C. railroads
D. the telephone
____ 32. In which of the following places did 146 female workers die in a fire?
A. Haymarket Square
B. the Pullman factory
C. the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
D. Carnegie Steel's Homestead Plant
____ 33. Why were scabs unpopular with striking workers during the late 1800s?
A. They were socialists.
B. They were federal troops.
C. They were part of management.
D. They were workers used to break strikes.
____ 34. What did industrial consolidation and trusts reduce during the late 1800s?
A. corruption
B. Monopolies
C. competition
D. interstate commerce
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____ 35. Who organized the Industrial Workers of the World?
A. radical unionists and socialists
B. female workers in the dressmaking trade
C. railroad workers, both skilled and unskilled
D. African-American workers, both skilled and unskilled
____ 36. What was the goal of the Interstate Commerce Act?
A. to build new railroads
B. to destroy the railroad industry
C. to lower excessive railroad rates
D. to increase the power of railroads
Using the exhibit, choose the letter of the best answer. (2 points each)
____ 37. What is the time difference between Pacific and Eastern time?
A. one hour
B. two hours
C. three hours
D. four hours
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____ 38. Which West Coast city was connected to the East by the Central Pacific and Union Pacific
Railways?
A. San Francisco
B. Los Angeles
C. Portland
D. Seattle
____ 39. In which time zones were railroads concentrated in 1870?
A. Pacific and Mountain
B. Mountain and Central
C. Central and Pacific
D. Central and Eastern
____ 40. What change does the map show between 1870 and 1890?
A. The Eastern time zone gained many more railroads.
B. Cleveland became a new center of rail transportation.
C. Railroads expanded greatly in the West.
D. Omaha, Nebraska, was finally connected by rail to the East.
____ 41. Which time zone had the largest concentration of railways in 1890?
A. Pacific
B. Mountain
C. Central
D. Eastern
Choose the letter of the best answer. (4 points each)
____ 42. The main purpose of the company known as Crédit Mobilier was to
A. build the transcontinental railroad.
B. steal railroad money for its shareholders.
C. obtain a monopoly of the railroad industry.
D. obtain political positions for its shareholders.
____ 43. All of the following factors contributed to the immense industrial boom of the early 1900s
except
A. a wealth of natural resources.
B. government support for business.
C. a growing urban population.
D. the emergence of the middle class.
____ 44. Andrew Carnegie gained control of a large percentage of the steel industry by doing all of the
following except
A. buying out his suppliers.
B. cutting the quality of his products.
C. buying out his competitors.
D. underselling his competitors.
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____ 45. The Sherman Antitrust Act
A. outlawed the formation of trusts that interfered with free trade.
B. was supported by millionaire industrialists.
C. was used by labor unions to fight for workers' rights.
D. encouraged the establishment of large-scale businesses.
____ 46. The Great Strike of 1877 took place in the
A. steel industry.
B. textile industry.
C. railroad industry.
D. coal mining industry.
____ 47. In the late 1800s, collective bargaining was a technique used to
A. expand industry.
B. win workers' rights.
C. restrict labor unions.
D. organize labor unions.
____ 48. The use of standardized time and time zones was introduced in order to benefit
A. telephone and telegraph operators.
B. railroad companies and train travelers.
C. manufacturers who dealt in interstate trade.
D. factory owners whose workers had set schedules.
____ 49. Social Darwinism was used to justify all of the following except
A. the existence of poverty.
B. the success of big business.
C. the power of millionaire industrialists.
D. government regulation of business.
____ 50. The Interstate Commerce Act gave the right to supervise railroad activities to
A. the federal government.
B. railroad company officials.
C. farmers' groups, such as the Grange.
D. a select committee of wealthy industrialists.
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Answer Sheet
1. C. Angel Island.
2. A. decrease Chinese immigration.
3. B. assimilate people of various cultures into the dominant culture.
4. C. sharing side walls with other buildings.
5. B. social reformers.
6. D. graft.
7. C. a New York City political machine.
8. D. appointing a friend to a political position.
9. A. applicants for government jobs to pass examinations.
10.
D. the northeast Atlantic coast
11.
C. Total population stayed about the same but shifted to urban areas.
12.
C. They are located near large bodies of water.
13.
B. New York
14.
A. increased immigration from Asia
15.
D. to provide single-family homes for working-class families
16.
C. social reform
17.
A. racism.
18.
C. keep African Americans from voting while allowing whites to do so.
19.
C. airplanes.
20.
C. the elevator and a steel framework.
21.
A. European literature.
22.
A. separated the races.
23.
D. most African Americans attending high school.
24.
B. new railroad lines
25.
A. a printing press that simultaneously printed both sides of the paper
26.
C. The number of blacks attending public school was rapidly catching up with whites.
27.
B. an interest in leisure activities
28.
D. by inventing a camera that used roll film instead of heavy glass plates
29.
B. It made many women feel more independent.
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30.
B. Western adventure tales
31.
A. electricity
32.
C. the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
33.
D. They were workers used to break strikes.
34.
C. competition
35.
A. radical unionists and socialists
36.
C. to lower excessive railroad rates
37.
C. three hours
38.
A. San Francisco
39.
D. Central and Eastern
40.
C. Railroads expanded greatly in the West.
41.
D. Eastern
42.
B. steal railroad money for its shareholders.
43.
D. the emergence of the middle class.
44.
B. cutting the quality of his products.
45.
A. outlawed the formation of trusts that interfered with free trade.
46.
C. railroad industry.
47.
B. win workers' rights.
48.
B. railroad companies and train travelers.
49.
D. government regulation of business.
50.
A. the federal government.
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Standards Summary
CA 11.1.3
Understand the history of the Constitution after 1787 with
emphasis on federal versus state authority and growing
democratization
CA 11.10.2
Examine and analyze the key events, policies, and court cases in
the evolution of civil rights, including Dred Scott v. Sandford,
Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown v. Board of Education, Regents of the
University of California v. Bakke, and California Proposition 209
CA 11.2.1
Know the effects of industrialization on living and working
conditions, including the portrayal of working conditions and food
safety in Upton Sinclair's The Jungle
CA 11.2.2
Describe the changing landscape, including the growth of cities
linked by industry and trade, and the development of cities divided
according to race, ethnicity, and class
CA 11.2.3
Trace the effect of the Americanization movement
CA 11.2.4
Analyze the effect of urban political machines and responses to
them by immigrants and middle-class reformers
CA 11.2.5
Discuss corporate mergers that produced trusts and cartels and
the economic and political policies of industrial leaders
CA 11.2.6
Trace the economic development of the United States and its
emergence as a major industrial power, including its gains from
trade and the advantages of its physical geography
CA 11.2.7
Analyze the similarities and differences between the ideologies of
Social Darwinism and Social Gospel (e.g., using biographies of
William Graham Sumner, Billy Sunday, Dwight L. Moody)
CA 11.2
Students analyze the relationship among the rise of
industrialization, large-scale rural-to-urban migration, and massive
immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe
CA 11.5.7
Discuss the rise of mass production techniques, the growth of
cities, the impact of new technologies (e.g., the automobile,
electricity), and the resulting prosperity and effect on the American
landscape
CA 12.3.1
Explain how civil society provides opportunities for individuals to
associate for social, cultural, religious, economic, and political
purposes
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CA 12.5.4
Explain the controversies that have resulted over changing
interpretations of civil rights, including those in Plessy v Ferguson,
Brown v Board of Education, Miranda v Arizona, Regents of the
University of California v Bakke, Adarand Constructors, Inc v
Pena, and United States v Virginia (VMI)
CA 12.7
Students analyze and compare the powers and procedures of the
national, state, tribal, and local governments
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