1. Ellis Island is to the ______as AngelIsland is to the Chinese. (5.01)
Which of the following best completes the analogy?
A. Europeans
B. Africans
C. Americans
D. Mexicans
2. What was a main reason that nativism existed in the United States at the end of the 1800s? (5.01)
A. Some people feared that immigrants would push their beliefs on Americans.
B. Some people believed that immigrants would work during a strike.
C. Some people believed Protestant immigrants would increase the power of the ProtestantChurch.
D. Some people believed immigrants would take the jobs of American-born workers.
3. Which of the following is the best definition of the theory of “Social Darwinism”?(5.02)
A. Society thrives because of a belief in the theory of evolution.
B. Society thrives because everyone helps each other.
C. Society thrives because only the fittest people survive.
D. Society thrives because big businesses takeover small businesses.
4. Business leaders John D. Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan, and Cornelius Vanderbilt were referred to as robber barons primarily because they (5.02)
A. bought titles of nobility from foreign governments
B. were ruthless in dealing with competitors
C. stole money from state and local governments
D. were philanthropic
5. During the late 1800s, business leaders formed trusts and monopolies mainly to (5.02)
A .reduce prices
B. eliminate competition
C. improve worker productivity
D. establish overseas factories
Base your answer to questions 6 and 7 on the cartoon below and on your knowledge of social studies.
6. Which economic concept is best illustrated by the cartoon? (5.02)
A. supply and demand
B. mercantilism
C. monopoly
D. trade
7. What is the main idea of this cartoon? (5.02)
A .The Standard Oil Company was a harmful monopoly.
B. The best way to develop major industries was to form proprietorships.
B. Government regulations were strangling the Standard Oil Company.
D. Foreign competition in the oil industry was hurting American companies.
8. What was the main benefit that labor unions of the late 19th century gained for their members? (5.03)
A. job security
B. improved wages and hours
C. paid vacations
D. health insurance
9. In the late 19th century, Congress tried to limit the power of monopolies by (5.04)
A. creating the Federal Trade Commission
B. strengthening the Supreme Court
C. adopting Granger laws
D. passing the Sherman Antitrust Act
10. Which of the following was the biggest impact of immigration on industrialization?
A. Providing cheap labor
B. Providing expensive labor
C. Adding to leisure time
D. Creating epidemics
11. What was one result of the Haymarket Riot?
A. Steelworkers wages increased
B. Public support for unions grew.
C. The American Federation of Labor was formed.
D. Union membership declined
12. Mark Twain labeled the late 1800s in the United States the “Gilded Age” to describe the (5.04)
A. end of the practice of slavery
B. absence of international conflicts
C. extremes of wealth and poverty
D. achievements of the labor movement
13. Which of the following provided Americanization programs for new immigrants?
A. Congress
B. Settlement Houses
C. Ghettoes
D. Trade Unions
14. What purpose is served when people are housed in tenements?
A. Many people are put into a small space, therefore maximizing the amount of tenants.
B. the people living in the tenements get adequate housing for little
C. residents are offered support, education, and other helpful services
D. tenements dwellers choose to live with people of their own ethnicity.
15. Which sentence best expresses the function of a trust?
A. trusts make sure businesses are honest
B. trusts are business associations
C. Trusts allow corporations to fix prices and regulate wages and prices.
D. The Supreme Court ordered trusts to dissolve
16. Andrew Carnegie is to U.S. Steel as John D. Rockefeller is to ______.
Which of the following best completes the analogy?
A. Finance
B. The Transcontinental Railroad
C. The Standard Oil Company
D. Ford Motors
17. Which best describes a company so powerful it can block competition?
A. corporation
B. Holding company
C. Monopoly
D. Conglomerate
18. Which best describes the lasting contribution Frederick Law Olmsted made to working class people?
A. Urban parks
B. Dumbbell tenements
C. settlement houses
D. passenger elevators
19. Which best explains why Mark Twain referred to the era of industrial expansion as “The Gilded Age?”
A. Many people made fortune in the California Gold Rush.
B. The glittering surface of the wealthy lifestyle concealed corruption and poverty
C. The wealthy class inherited money rather than working to earn it
D. Wealthy Americans tried to influence national politics
20. Which best describes the cause of the Pullman Strike?
A. Low wages and high rent
B. Low wages and low rent
C. Sweatshop environment
D. None of the above
21. What did the Pullman Strike, Haymarket Riot and the Homestead Strike have in common?
A. They were defeats for owners.
B. They were victories for unions.
C. They were marked by violence.
D. They were organized by anarchists
22. The debate over the use of the spoils system in government was resolved with the establishment of a civil service system created by the
A. Sherman Antitrust Act
B. Interstate Commerce Commission
C. Pendleton Act
D. Chinese Exclusion Act
23. Which of the following is an example of graft?
A. Credit Mobilier Scandal
B. Using the spoils system
C. Voting repeatedly during one election
D. None of the above
24. When Jacob Riis compiled How the Other Half Lives what was his goal?
A. Expose the problems of urbanization.
B. Expose the problems of immigration.
C. Expose the horrible conditions in the slums.
D. All of the above
25.Which of the following sets of tactics were used by employers?
A. Strikes, Arbitration and Collective Bargaining
B. Strikes, Blacklists and Lockouts
C. Lockouts, Blacklists, and Yellow Dog Contracts
D. Collective Bargaining, Scabs, and Yellow Dog Contracts
26. In the mid-1800s, the growth of the populations of California and the western territories was mainly a result of the (4.01)
A. discovery of gold and silver
B. opening of the Panama Canal
C. migration of freedmen after the Civil War
D. secession of the Southern states
27. The Homestead Act of 1862 helped the development of the West by (4.01)
A. providing free land to settlers
B. granting land for construction of transcontinental railroads
C. allowing slavery to spread to the territories
D. placing Native American Indians on reservations
28. In an effort to resolve conflicts with the frontier settlers in the 1870s, the federal government forced Native American Indians to (4.02)
A. move south of the Mississippi River
B. live on reservations with definite boundaries
C. relocate to urban industrial centers
D. help build the transcontinental railroad
29. Passage of the Dawes Act of 1887 affected Native American Indians by (4.02)
A. supporting their cultural traditions
B. attempting to assimilate them into mainstream American culture
C. forcing their removal from areas east of the Mississippi River
D. starting a series of Indian wars on the Great Plains
30. The Transcontinental Railroad was built by two private companies that agreed to meet at (goal 4)
A. Wounded Knee
B. Sand Creek
C. Virginia City
D. Promontory Point
31. In the late 1800s, the Grange movement tried to improve conditions for farmers by (4.03)
A. lowering the rate of inflation
B. strengthening the gold standard
C. forcing railroads to lower their rates
D. making labor unions stronger
32. Which one of the following would be considered a pull factor for white settlers to move West?(goal 4)
A. OklahomaLand Rush
B. Dawes Severalty Act
C. Wounded Knee
D. None of the above
33. Which best explains why the Interstate Commerce Act was passed? (goal 4)
A.The bankers and railroads were losing money.
B. The farmers felt victimized by bankers and railroads.
C. The Morrill Land-Grant Act had failed
D. The transcontinental railroad had just been completed.
34. Which group (s) would most likely support bimetallism? (goal 4)
A. Bankers
B. Industrialists and merchants
C. Foreign Investors
D. Farmers and laborers
35. Which best describes the major change brought about by the widespread use of barbed wire?(Goal 4)
A. Decline of windmills.
B. Decline in cattle ranching
C. Increase in boundary disputes
D. End of the open range
36. In order to increase agricultural knowledge, the government set up ______to give land to states for schools.(Goal 4)
A. Homestead Act
B. Morrill Land Grant
C. Dawes Severalty Act
D. Comstock Lode
37. Which of the following terms describes the attempt made by the government to have Indians adopt the American culture through the enforcement of the Dawes Severalty Act?(Goal 4)
A. Reservation System
B. Ghost Dance
C. Assimilation
D. None of the above
38. Which of the following is the best representation of the Populists political struggle for the interests of poor farmers and labors? (Goal 4)
A. The Jungle
B. A Century of Dishonor
C. The Wizard of OZ
D. How the Other Half Lives
39. Which of the following pairs gave 160 acres of land to either white settlers or Indians? (Goal 4)
A. Morrill Land Grant and the Comstock Lode
B. Homestead Act and Dawes Severalty Act
C. Morrill Land Grant and the Dawes Severalty Act
D. Comstock Lode and the Homestead Act
40. One major weakness of the Farmer’s Alliances was that (goal 4)
A. they did not accept African American farmers.
B. they did not form farmers cooperatives.
C. they made absolutely no gains.
D. None of the above
41.
Which answer best completes the graphic organizer above? (goal 4)
A. New farming techniques
B. Inventions
C. Technological advances
D. Technological advances affecting farming and ranching
42. The Omaha Platform was the outline of beliefs for which of the following groups?
A. Nez Perce
B. Sioux
C. The Grange
D. Populists
43. Which of the following led to Native Americans believing that buffalo would return and white settlers would leave their lands?(goal 4)
A. Buffalo Rides
B. Buffalo Hunts
C. Ghost Dance
D. Little Big Horn
44. Harriet Beecher Stowe is to Uncle Tom’s Cabin as Helen Hunt Jackson is to ______.
Which best completes the analogy?
A. Gone With the Wind
B. A Century of Dishonor
C. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
D. The Emancipation Proclamation
45. Which answer best expresses the similarity between the military actions at Wounded Knee and Sand Creek?
A. Both actions were Native American defeats.
B. Both actions were massacres of Native Americans
C. Both actions were massacres by Native Americans
D. Both actions were Native American victories
46. Which answer best expresses the relationship between the discovery of gold in the Black Hills and the Battle of Little Big Horn?
A. The gold discovery caused the battle.
B. Without the discovery of gold, the battle could never have happened.
C. There was no connection between the gold discovery and the battle.
D. The discovery of gold was one cause of thebattle.
47. Which factor most likely led to the growth of the Granger Movement?
A. Increase in cooperative farming
B. Organization of farmer’s wives
C. Decline of farm prices and growing farmer’s debt.
D. Development of the steel plow
48. During the late 1800s, many farmers supported the idea that free and unlimited coinage of silver would (4.03)
Aend farm subsidies
Bhelp farmers to pay their debts
Clead to lower prices for consumer goods
Ddecrease prices for farmland
49. Which of the following political issues MOST seriously divided Northern and Southern politicians during the period before the war?(goal 3)
A. Extension of slavery in US territories
B. Enforcement of the Monroe Doctrine
C. Role of the federal government in supporting railroads
D. Issue of organizing labor unions
50. Reasons for ______.
I. Increasing Sectionalism
II. Disagreements over states rights issues
III. Breakdown of Compromise
IV. Election of Lincoln in 1860
What would best complete the header for the outline above?
A. The Impeachment of Johnson
B. Southern Succession
C. Compromise
D. Reconstruction