West, Industry, Immigration, Gilded Age Unit Test
Political Cartoons: Choose the answer that best fits or describes the illustration.
3. The caption “Move on!” is being told to who?
a. Immigrants
b. Indians
c. Chinese
d. none of these
4. Where are the people in the background doing?
a. arguing
b. discussing Indian Removal
c. Voting
d. plotting a revolution
5. What culture group is seen as cheating or “stuffing the ballot box”?
a. German
b. Irish
c. Indian
d. Polish
8. Who / culture group is shown as being rebellious in this cartoon?
a. Americans
b. Germans
c. French
d. Irish
Charts and Graphs: use the charts and or graphs below to answer the following questions that associate with the proper graph/chart.
11. Which group had the highest number of immigrants in the United States between 1861-1890?
a. English
b. Scottish
c. German
d. Irish
12. Which group had the lowest number of immigrants in the United States between 1881-1890?
a. German
b. Irish
c. Austrian
d. none of these
13. Powerful industrialists who eliminated competition were known as…
a. Captains of Capitalism
b. Philanthropists
c. Robber barons
d. Anarchists
14. Thomas Edison’s most important invention was the…
a. Incandescent light bulb
b. Camera
c. Telegraph
d. Florescent lamp
15. John D. Rockefeller created a monopoly in which industry?
a. Railroads
b. Oil
c. Steel
d. Coal Mining
16. Sherman Anti-Trust Act was to prevent what from being created?
a. Oligopolies
b. Monopolies
c. Freedmen’s Bureaus
d. Polling places for blacks.
17. What Scottish immigrant rose to create a monopoly in the steel industry?
a. Andrew Carnegie
b. John D. Rockefeller
c. J.P. Morgan
d. Cornelius Vanderbilt
18. In which strike did the president intervene because the strike interfered with the delivery of the mail?
a. The Pullman Strike
b. The Haymarket Strike
c. The Homestead Strike
d. The U.S. Steelworkers strike
19. The Pendleton Act of 1882 was passed to…
a. Place additional regulations on railroads
b. Limit Chinese immigration to the U.S.
c. End the Spoils Systems
d. Ensure that printed money was backed by silver
20. Most Europeans that came to America during the late 1800’s came through this port…
a. Angel Island
b. Pleasure Island
c. Treasure Island
d. Ellis Island
21. This invention created by Joseph Glidden, brought about the end of the “cowboy” and free grazing way of life.
a. Steel plow
b. barbed wire
c. feeding techniques
d. Granger Laws
22. During the early 1900’s, the NAACP…
a. Used the court system to fight discrimination against blacks
b. Formed its own political party
c. Ended segregation in the South
d. Founded settlement houses in black neighborhoods
23. In, Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court…
a. Declared “separate but equal” constitutional
b. Established the “separate but equal” doctrine
c. Ordered universities to enroll more women
d. Banned the teaching of evolution
24. W.E.B. Dubois was best known for…
a. The Niagara Movement and co-founding the NAACP
b. Being the first black man in Congress
c. Founding Tuskegee University
d. Being the first black man on the Supreme Court
25. In what city did Jazz music originate?
a. New York
b. Paris
c. New Orleans
d. Los Angeles
26. The Transcontinental Railroad was completed when The Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads met at…
a. Salt Lake City, Utah
b. Promontory Point, Utah
c. Las Vegas, Nevada
d. Kansas City, Kansas
27. Which act offered 160 acres of land to settlers who live on and farm that land for 5 years?
a. The Morrill Land Grant Act
b. The Homestead Act
c. The Oklahoma Land Act
d. The Sharecropper Act
28. In what battle did Sitting Bull defeat 200 cavalry troops led by George Armstrong Custer?
a. The Battle of Wounded Knee
b. The Battle of Little Bighorn
c. The Battle of the Alamo
d. The Battle of Cheyenne Crossing
29. Populism centered around the rights of what group of people?
a. Former slaves
b. Industrial Workers
c. Farmers
d. Rail Road Workers
30. What African American founded the Tuskegee Institute?
a. W.E.B. Dubois
b. Booker T. Washington
c. George Washington Carver
d. Eli Whitney
31. Most political bosses where…
a. Never born in the country of immigrants origin.
b. 1st or 2nd generation immigrants themselves.
c. Native Americans
d. Members of the Ku Klux Klan
32. Collective bargaining allowed…
a. Government support when forming unions
b. Unions to negotiate as a group with employers for improvements
c. Employers to hire scabs to replace workers
d. government to negotiate with unions and employers
33. Famous political boss in New York whose group was known as Tammany Hall.
a. Boss Tweed
b. Boss Hog
c. Boss Bailey
d. Boss Taylor
34. To Assimilate means to…
a. Use mules to plow your fields.
b. Assume that the stereotype is correct.
c. Allow ALL people to vote.
d. Merge one culture into another.
35. This place is the major point of entry for Asian immigrants coming into America.
a. Ellis Island
b. Angel Island
c. Devils Island
d. Long Island
36. AFL…
a. American Football League
b. American Foosball League
c. American Federation of Labor
d. American Federation of Legalism
37. This became the best way to produce steel due to the fact it made production cheaper and cleaner.
a. Melting Process
b. Bessemer Process
c. Carnegie Process
d. Due Process
MATCHING
A. AFL B. NAWSA C. NAACP
38. Women’s group fighting for universal suffrage
39. Civil rights group fighting for equality
40. Labor Union fighting for fairness and safety at the work place.
TRUE / FALSE A=TRUE B=FALSE
41. Vaudeville is a type of entertainment that includes acts such as; singing, acting, dancing, music, and even trapeze acts.
42. Horse Racing was amongst the many sports that were very popular in the west during the Gilded age.
43. Disenfranchisement means to allow someone to participate in the political process, such as voting.
44. Jim Crow Laws in just another form of Black Codes.
45. Sherman Anti-Trust Act gave people land in the west if they agreed to farm/cultivate it for 5 years.
46. Former Confederates were not allowed to participate in the Homestead Act.
47. Populists were mostly farmers.
48. Col. John Forysth was responsible for the massacre at Sand Creek.
49. The Dawes General Allotment Act, removed Indians from their land.
50. Gen. Armstrong Custer was not victorious at the Battle of Little Big Horn.
EOCT
Directions: Use the quotation to answer the following questions.
“The foreigner coming to these shores is more impressed at first by our skyscrapers.... In the daylight they are ugly.... But at night, seen from the river where they are columns towering against the sky, all sparkling with light, they are fairylike; they are beauty more satisfactory to the soul than anything man has dreamed since the Arabian nights.”
--Mark Twain
51. In this quote, Twain is describing
a. the new mass transit system. c. skyscrapers at night.
b. the countryside at night . d. tenement buildings.
52. Which statement indicates how Twain feels about what he is describing?
a. They are small and insignificant. c. They are beautiful at night.
b. They are ugly at night. d. They make the river look small.
53. What was one of the dangers of living in a tenement?
a. Tenements were owned by landlords that lived in areas that were far away.
b. Families had to live within walking distance of the industrial plants and factories.
c. Tenements had few windows and poor sanitation conditions.
d. Tenements typically housed more than one family in the same apartment.
54. The Ku Klux Klan
a. supported black farmers. c. encouraged cooperation among farmers.
b. helped freed slaves. d. used violence and intimidation.
55. Homesteaders on the plains usually built homes of
a. bricks. c. stone.
b. wood. d. sod.
Directions: Use the chart to answer the following questions.
56. Which Native Americans farmed?
a. Chinooks and Sioux c. Sioux and Navajos
b. Chinooks and Pueblos d. Navajos and Pueblos
57. What conclusion can be drawn from this chart?
a. Native American groups shared some characteristics and did not share others.
b. Farming was important to all Native Americans.
c. Hunting was not necessary for any Native Americans.
d. Most Native Americans were nomadic.
58. How did new railroads benefit western cattle ranchers?
a. provided a way to transport meat to eastern markets
b. allowed cowboys to travel easily between cattle herds and their homes
c. made it easier for ranchers to keep track of their herds
d. encouraged eastern cowboys to make a living in the West
59. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
a. barred U.S. cities from hiring Chinese workers.
b. prohibited Chinese laborers from entering the country.
c. stripped Chinese Americans of their U.S. citizenship.
d. forced Chinese children to attend segregated schools.
60. Which labor organization was founded first?
a. International Workers of the World c. American Railway Union
b. American Federation of Labor d. Knights of Labor