US History/Michelena

1. During which period in US history were the amendments concerning the income tax, direct election of Senators, Prohibition, and women’s suffrage enacted?
   1. Reconstruction
   2. The Gilded Age
   3. Progressive Era
   4. The New Deal

2. All of the following were goals of the Progressives EXCEPT:
   1. monitoring big business and “trust-busting:
   2. women’s suffrage
   3. temperance
   4. civil rights for blacks

3. Which action was necessary to change from the indirect to the direct election of United States Senators?
   1. ratification of a constitutional amendment
   2. passage of a Federal Law
   3. a Supreme Court decision
   4. a national referendum

4. Theodore Roosevelt and Robert M. LaFollette were considered progressives because they
   1. supported the formation of the first trade union
   2. used Presidential power to break unions
   3. worked to limit the power of big businesses
   4. formed the first civil rights organizations

5. In The Jungle, Upton Sinclair exposed
   1. dangers faced by children working in factories
   2. unsanitary conditions in the meat-packing industry
   3. the corrupt business practices of Standard Oil Company
   4. illegal deals between special interest groups and the US Department of Forestry

6. Which region of the United States was most progressive on the issue of women’s suffrage?
   1. East
   2. South
   3. Northeast
   4. West

7. Upton Sinclair’s book The Jungle lead to
   1. Meat Inspection Act
   2. Interstate Commerce Act
   3. National Child Labor Act
   4. National Reclamation Act

8. Which suffragist was arrested for voting in the 1872 presidential election?
   1. Alice Paul
   2. Lucy Burns
   3. Susan B. Anthony
   4. Carrie Chapman Catt

9. The name muckrakers was given to
   1. journalists who wrote about corruption
   2. individuals who worked for social reform
   3. politicians who worked for progressive reform
   4. businessmen engaged in illegal business practices

10. The main purpose of initiative, referendum, and recall was to
    1. reduce federal control over local government
    2. enlarge citizens’ control over state and local government
    3. stimulate economic growth

11. What statement is NOT accurate when comparing the Populists and Progressives?
    1. Populist supporters were mostly Southern or Western farmers
    2. Progressives were mostly urban middle-class professionals
    3. Populists supported the gold standard
    4. Progressives sought to expand the power of government to address social needs

12. Which of the following does NOT correctly describe the Progressives?
    1. they favored government regulation of business on behalf of the public interest
    2. they were concerned with the social and economic conditions of society
    3. they called for a federal income tax
    4. they were mostly farmers and factory workers

13. In the early 20^th Century, muckrakers were able to influence American society mainly through their
    1. frequent acts of civil disobedience
    2. achievements as government officials
    3. publication of articles and books that revealed corruption
    4. control over factories

14. The major function of the Federal Reserve System is to
    1. lend money to state governments
    2. balance the federal government
    3. control the supply and flow of money in the US
    4. pay of US government loans

15. The purpose of the Interstate Commerce Act, the Sherman Antitrust Act and the Clayton Antitrust Act was to
    1. eliminate unfair business practices
    2. reduce imports from foreign nations
    3. reduce the power of the unions
    4. increase the power of local governments

16. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory reflected
    1. the safe working conditions in many US factories
    2. child labor was a problem in US factories
    3. the cramped, unsafe, and deadly working conditions in US factories
    4. immigrants often were able to find high paying jobs

17. The first US government institution to provide oversight for the living conditions of American children was
    1. The Department of Health
    2. The Children’s Bureau
    3. The Department of Children’s Services
    4. The Department of Human Services

18. In Hammer v. Dagenhart, the US Supreme Court decided that
    1. The Owens-Keating Child Labor Law was unconstitutional
    2. Child labor could be regulated by the US government
    3. Children under the age of ten could not work in the US
    4. Children under the age sixteen must attend school

19. Which of the following women was known for forcefully entering bars and breaking bottle of alcohol with an axe?
    1. Carrie Chapman Catt
    2. Francis Willard
    3. Susan B. Anthony
    4. Carrie Nation

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Put “A” for Teddy Roosevelt; “B” for Taft; “C” for Wilson:

28. Rough Rider
29. Republican Party split under his administration
30. Became President when McKinley was assassinated
31. Federal Reserve System
32. Payne-Aldrich Tariff
33. Seventeenth Amendment passed under his administration
34. The Square Deal
35. Dollar Diplomacy

36. The first women’s rights convention was held at
    1. Albany, New York
    2. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    3. Seneca Falls, New York
    4. Washington, DC

37. The document that came out of the first women’s rights convention was known as the
    1. Declaration of Rights and Sentiments
    2. The Women’s Rights Declaration
    3. The Declaration of Independence for Women
    4. The Declaration of Rights of Women

38. Most southern states and some northern states had laws concerning
    1. miscegenation
    2. segregation of schools
    3. segregation of public facilities
    4. all of the above

39. Which civil rights leader spoke at the first women’s rights convention, urging the delegates to support the right of women to vote?
    1. Carrie Chapman Catt
    2. Frederick Douglass
    3. Carrie Nation
    4. WEB DuBois

40. In this case, the Supreme Court determined that women did not have the right to vote in federal elections
    1. Roe v. Wade
    2. Minor v. Happersett
    3. Anthony v. Foster
    4. US v. Catt

41. In which state did women have the right to vote in local and state elections?
    1. Utah
    2. California
    3. New York
    4. Wyoming

42. Which of the following were methods to keep blacks from voting?

a.    grandfather clauses

b.    poll taxes

c.     literacy tests

d.     all of the above

43. Which Supreme Court case declared “separate but equal” facilities in the South to be constitutional?
    1. Brown v. Board of Education
    2. Minor v. Happersett
    3. Dred Scott v. Sandford
    4. Plessy v. Ferguson

44. The group that was created to find against Jim Crow laws and other racial inequalities was the
    1. Black Panthers
    2. WCTU
    3. Rainbow Coalition
    4. NAACP

45. The name of the newspaper of the above organization was
    1. The Crisis
    2. Common Sense
    3. Straight Talk
    4. The Revolution

46. Which Civil War Amendment gave black males the right to vote?
    1. 13^th
    2. 14^th
    3. 15^th
    4. 16^th
47. What was the form of punishment used to intimidate and/or kill those who supported civil rights during the Jim Crow Era?
    1. burning
    2. shooting
    3. stabbing
    4. lynching

48. What was the name of the movie that depicted the Confederate South as heroic and the post-war blacks living in the South as ignorant and violent?
    1. Gone With the Wind
    2. Wilson Goes to the White House
    3. Gettysburg
    4. The Birth of a Nation

49. Which president viewed the film named in #48 in the White House and declared it to be a wonderful movie?
    1. Teddy Roosevelt
    2. Woodrow Wilson
    3. William Taft
    4. William Jennings Bryant

50. In which Supreme Court case did the Court rule that states could legally limit the working hours of women?
    1. Brown v. Board of Education
    2. Muller v. Oregon
    3. Plessy v. Ferguson
    4. Dred Scott v. Sandford

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58. Robert LaFollete gained fame for being a
    1. progressive governor of Wisconsin
    2. socialist labor leader
    3. muckraker
    4. conservationist

59. Which was NOT a goal of the Progressives?
    1. eight-hour work day
    2. limit child labor
    3. women’s right to vote
    4. appointment of United States Senators

60. The establishment of the Federal Reserve System was prompted primarily by a need for
    1. social reform
    2. financial reform
    3. industrial reform
    4. political reform

61. Which of the following WAS NOT a muckraker?
    1. Lincoln Steffens
    2. Ida Tarbell
    3. Upton Sinclair
    4. WEB DuBois

Mark “A” for Populist; “B” for Progressive; “C” for Both:

62. Women’s Suffrage
63. Make government more responsive to the people
64. Farmers
65. Urban Professionals