SS Midterm - Quizizz

Andrew Carnegie was a poor immigrant who worked his way to own this industry which used the Bessemer process? A) US Steel B) Vanderbilt Railroad Lines C) Standard Oil D) Old Dominion Freight

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Based on your knowledge of the Second Industrial Revolution in the United States, what statement is this cartoon making? A) The owner of Standard Oil has too much power and influence over the federal government. B) The federal government is ruining the oil industry by placing too many restrictions and regulations on business owners. C) The oil industry is thriving due to a healthy working relationship with the federal government. D) Emissions from oil refineries are polluting the air and harming the environment.

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Conditions that force people to leave their homeland. A) Push factors B) Pull factors C) Shove factors D) Pluck factors

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During Reconstruction, which organization oversaw labor contracts, set up schools and helped freed slaves and poor whites find jobs? A) Freedman's Bureau B) Republican Party C) Ku Klux Klan D) United States Army

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How did South Carolina and many other southern states respond to the passage of Reconstruction policies? A) They passed Black Codes and elected former Confederates to Congress. B) They passed laws that protected African American rights and elected new officials. C) They used state militaries to protect white citizens through martial law. D) They seceded from the Union and created the Confederacy.

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How does the picture demonstrate the belief in Manifest Destiny? A) Pioneers are shown moving West bringing new transportation and communication technologies. B) New technologies are shown being used to defeat American Indian tribes already living in the West. C) Women are shown leading pioneers to new lands. D) Farmers are shown plowing land and hunting animals.

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Iconic Images like this were attributed to renowned Muckraking photographer... A) Lewis Hine B) Upton Sinclair C) Ida Tarbell D) Lincoln Steffens

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Laws passed by southern states during Reconstruction that legalized segregation, forcing whites and blacks to use separate facilities. A) Jim Crow Laws B) Black Codes C) Freedman's Bureau D) Reconstruction

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Many immigrants were forced to live in __________, or run-down, dirty, and cramped apartment-like buildings. A) Tenements B) Ghettos C) Townhouses D) Plantations

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Nonviolent protest, where protesters occupied space in order to protest segregation. A) Sit-In B) Freedom Rides C) Selma March D) Filibuster

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People who sought to limit immigration and preserve the country for white Protestants were also called A) Nativists B) Parishioners C) Exclusionists D) Inclusionists

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Railroad owners wanted more people to settle on the Great Plains because... A) farmers would use the railroads to ship products to markets in the cities B) they needed more people to build railroad tracks C) they needed sharecroppers to farm the land owned by the railroads D) settlers would grow cotton and ship it to the south

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System of farming where plantation owners would lend former slaves a place to live in exchange for farming crops A) Sharecropping B) Freedmen's Bureua C) Jim Crow Laws D) Slavery

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The 15th Amendment.... A) Gave African American MEN the right to vote B) Abolished slavery C) Gave the right to bear arms D) Gave women the right to vote

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The transcontinental railroad ______ A) connected east and west B) connected north and south

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This picture is an example of a ... A) tenement. B) political machine. C) monopoly. D) sweatshop.

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What amendment abolishes slavery? A) 13th B) 14th C) 15th D) 10th

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What did workers join to collectively bargain for workplace improvements? A) Labor Unions B) YMCA C) Vaudeville D) Homesteads

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What famous phrase came out of the Plessy case? A) "Separate but equal" B) "Give me liberty or give me death." C) "May the force be with you." D) "I'll be back."

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What gave settlers 160 acres of land in exchange for the settlers "improving" their new land? A) Homestead Act B) Dawes Act C) Morril Act D) Reconstruction Act

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What is Manifest Destiny? A) The belief that it was America's destiny to control and civilize all of North America B) The belief that their destiny was to manifest C) A religious term used to explain how to be saved

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What is a business that has no competitors in its industry? A) Monopoly B) Swanopoly C) Oligopoly D) Corporation

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Where did the two parts of the TRR meet? A) Promontory, UT B) New York, NY C) San Francisco, CA D) Omaha, NE

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Which answer choice best describes a Labor Union? A) A group formed to protect the rights of workers under harsh conditions B) A group that wanted more money. C) A clique of weird adolescents. D) A group created for the rights of the people in society.

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Which group had a racial hatred of immigrants, since they took jobs from Americans for lower wages. A) Nativists B) Political bosses C) Miners D) Labor leaders

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Which of the following is true about Ellis Island? A) Immigrants had to pass a medical inspection B) All immigration officials tried to change last names C) Most immigrants were sent back to their home countries D) Immigrants had to be able to speak fluent English

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Why did people move to the cities during the Industrial revolution? A) Jobs in factories B) Jobs on the farm C) Family D) Friends

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a test in which people had to read and explain difficult parts of the Constitution in order to vote in an election A) literacy test B) poll tax C) corruption D) lynching

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the separation of the races A) segregation B) integration C) corruption D) sharecropping

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Carnegie, Rockefeller or Morgan: Was a railroad and banking tycoon A) Carnegie B) Morgan C) Rockefeller

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Cornelius Vanderbilt, The Commodore, left his father's shipping company to invest in this new transportation that would connect everyone in the United States. A) US Steel B) Railroads C) Standard Oil D) General Electric

B

Economic opportunities, religious freedom, political and social equality are all examples of... A) Push Factors B) Pull Factors C) Falling Factors D) Jump Factors

B

Mass production led to: A) Products being more superior in quality B) goods became less expensive C) laborers received higher wages D) industries moved to rural areas

B

The 14th Amendment A) abolished slavery B) gave freedmen citizenship to freedom C) gave freedmen the right to vote

B

The growing railroad network helped American industry expand into A) A. the East B) B. the West C) C. rural areas D) D. overseas markets

B

What anti monopoly law made all"combinations, contracts, and conspiracies" that restrained free trade illegal (1890)? A) Interstate Commerce Act B) Sherman Antitrust Act C) Clayton Antitrust Act D) Keller-Cefauver Act

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What did Homer Plessy do that got him arrested? A) Sat in the white only part of the bus. B) Took a seat in the white only car of a train. C) Sat at a white only section of a lunch counter. D) All of the above

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What did labor unions use to get better working conditions? A) The help of children B) Protest and strikes C) Ads on the radio D) Taking hostages

B

What is a tenement? A) A new form of transportation B) Poorly built, overcrowded apartment buildings C) The end of immigration D) A revolutionary war in Africa

B

What tactic was used by unions to stop production in order to force management to accept union demands. A) Trusts B) Strike C) Appeasment D) Mergers

B

What was the purpose of labor unions? A) Negotiate as a group for bigger factories B) Negotiate as a group for better working conditions C) Negotiate as a group for a political revolution D) Negotiate as a group for a social revolution

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When workers refuse to go to work, it is called a: A) picket B) strike C) day off D) stink

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Which of the following amendments recognized African American citizenship and offered equal protection under the law? A) First Amendment B) Fourteenth Amendment C) Twentieth Amendment D) Fifteenth Amendement

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Which of the following is an example of a push factors? A) Religious Freedom B) War C) Better opportunity for a job D) Better education

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Which of the following was NOT a problem labor unions fought for? A) shorter hours B) lower pay C) no child labor D) safer working conditions

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Which of the following was NOT associated with early factory working conditions? A) Low wages B) Safe working conditions C) Dangerous working conditions D) Widespread pollution

B

Which option is a cause and effect A) Industrialism led to shrinking cities B) Industrialism led to growth of cities C) delicious donut lead to skinny people

B

Which place opened its doors to immigrants in NYC in 1892? A) Angel Island B) Ellis Island C) Immigration Island D) Liberty Island

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Who was the photographer who revealed to the world how the lower class lived? A) Alexander Bell B) Jacob Riis C) Upton Sinclair D) Theodore Roosevelt

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With Jim Crow laws, blacks and whites could attend the same schools. A) True B) False

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Writers that dig up the bad things going on in society A) Suffragists B) Muckrakers C) Students D) Chaffinators

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Wrote "How the Other Half Lives," describing poverty, crime, and diseases affecting immigrant neighborhoods A) Lewis Hine B) Jacob Riis C) Lincoln Steffens D) Louis Brandeis

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Wrote The Jungle, revealing the unsanitary conditions of slaughterhouses. A) Jane Addams B) Upton Sinclair C) Ida Tarbell D) Jacob Riis

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_____________________ is the thought that the government should regulate, not control, corrupt businesses. A) Socialism B) Progressive C) Reformism D) Civil Service

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A place where people and machines join together to mass produce goods. A) Cartel B) Corporation C) Factory D) Urbanization

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Adopting the customs and practices of the dominant culture. A) Nativism B) Ethnic Enclaves C) Assimilation

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As Americans took over more and more land, what happened to Native Americans? A) They agreed to give up their land. B) They were given their choice of where to live. C) They were forced to live in reservations. D) They voluntarily moved to Canada and Mexico.

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Capitalism A) global trading of people, goods, technology, ideas and disease B) gold and silver C) economic system in which money is invested in businesses to make profit D) settlement of people living in a new territory controlled by their home country

C

Carnegie, Rockefeller or Morgan: Was an oil tycoon A) Carnegie B) Morgan C) Rockefeller

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Court case that created "Separate-but-equal" doctrine. A) Sweatt v. Painter B) Brown v. Board of Education C) Plessy v. Ferguson D) Mendez v. Kirby ISD

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During the late 19th century, most immigrants to the US found work as- A) Educated professionals B) skilled workers C) Factory/sweatshop workers D) Scientists

C

Exposed corruption, poverty, health hazards, and monopolies in American big business. A) Abolishinists B) Nativists C) Muckrakers D) Rober Barons

C

Factory owners used child labor because children-- A) Read better than their parents B) Are more efficient than other workers C) Can be paid less than adults D) Needed jobs to support parent

C

Rockefeller made his fortune by creating a monopoly with which company? A) US Steel B) Vanderbilt Railroad Lines C) Standard Oil D) Old Dominion Freight

C

The 15th Amendment A) abolished slavery B) gave freedmen citizenship to freedom C) gave freedmen the right to vote

C

The Ku Klux Klan often resorted to violence to accomplish its goal. This violence was usually designed to: A) protect personal property. B) retaliate against previous acts of violence. C) intimidate the victims. D) prevent the spread of more violence.

C

This act forced Native American tribes to give up their ancestral land holdings and move to reservation lands elsewhere. A) Homestead Act B) Morrill Act C) Dawes Act D) Fort Laramie Treaty, 1868

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This example of American art is best known as- A) The Bride Path by Winslow Homer B) Under the Horse Chestnut Tree by Mary Cassatt C) American Progress by John Gast D) American Gothic by Grant Wood

C

What document freed slaves in the Confederacy? A) Gettysburg Address B) Bill of Rights C) Emancipation Proclamation D) Declaration of Independence

C

What impact did the railroads have on Native Americans? A) the railroads helped the NA move east B) Native Americans got jobs on the railroads C) the railroads limited their land and decreased their food supple and resources the railroads increased D) the amount of land the NA had

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What is the rebuilding in the South after the Civil War called? A) Rehashing B) Refurbishing C) Reconstruction D) Rebuilding

C

What took land from Indian tribes and promoted assimilation? A) Homestead Act B) Morril Act C) Dawes Act D) Reconstruction Act

C

What was the cause of a town becoming a ghost town? A) the gold runs out in the local mine B) the railroad moves its station away from the town C) A & B D) none of the above

C

Which island did European immigrants register to live in the U.S? A) Galveston B) Long C) Ellis D) Angel

C

Which law expanded competition and eliminated trusts and monopolies? A) Interstate Commerce Act B) Homestead Act C) Sherman AntiTrust Act D) Dawes Act

C

Which of the following are ways that the government fixed unsanitary factories? A) Sherman Anti-Trust Act and the Meat Inspection Act B) Pure Food & Drug Act and the Prohibition Act C) Pure Food & Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act D) Sherman Anti-Trust Act and the Prohibition Act

C

Which of the following best describes the "Gilded Age?" A) Almost all Americans enjoyed great wealth B) Almost all Americans struggled greatly during this time period C) While some Americans enjoyed great wealth, most struggled during this period D) While most Americans enjoyed great wealth, some struggled during this period

C

Which statement is true? A) Children were not allowed to work in the mines during the Industrial Revolution B) Work conditions were closely regulated C) There were no labor laws that prevented children from working D) Children were allowed to work but they were treated fairly.

C

Who was arrested for refusing to give up their seat on a bus? A) Charlayne Hunter B) Harriet Tubman C) Rosa Parks D) Rebecca L. Felton

C

Women's Suffrage refers to a woman's right to _______. A) work. B) get divorced. C) vote. D) bear children

C

_______________ wrote "I Have a Dream" and delivered it to thousands in Washington, DC. A) Harry Belafonte B) Barack Obama C) Martin Luther King, Jr. D) Jesse Jackson

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a fee people had to pay to vote A) sharecropping B) literacy test C) poll tax D) black codes

C

Brown v. Board of Education was famous because the court ruled that it is illegal A) allow children to work. B) to pay black people less than white people. C) to return a slave. D) to segregate schools.

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During Reconstruction, which of the following did the Southern states enact in order to restrict the rights of the freedmen? A) Slave Codes B) Civil Rights Laws C) Freedman's Bureau Bill D) Black Codes

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How did the Industrial Revolution affect the cities? A) Made the crime rate decrease B) Led to an increase in farm workers C) Make the cities cleaner and safer D) Led to an increase in population in the cities so people could work in factories

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Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair, Jacob Riis, and Lincoln Steffens were all ________________ , who exposed the "muck" of society. A) writers B) authors C) journalists D) muckrakers

D

The Plessy decision was not overturned until what famous case was decided by the Supreme Court? A) Worcester v. Georgia B) Marbury v. Madison C) Dred Scott D) Brown v. Board of Education

D

The sometimes unethical business practices of some business owners led them to be given this nickname A) Banksters B) Tycoons C) Fat Cats D) Robber Barons

D

What historic campaign did King lead in Montgomery, Alabama? A) a march to Washington, D.C., for civil rights B) a demonstration outside of city hall C) a sit-in at city diners D) a boycott of city buses

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What is the movement from rural to urban areas called? A) Moving B) colonization C) inflation D) urbanization

D

When workers in a union refuse to work until conditions improve A) Urbanization B) Labor Union C) Factory System D) Strike

D

Which act was rushed to Congress and passed shortly after the publication of Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle in 1906? A) Federal Reserve Act B) Clayton Antitrust Act C) Australian Ballot Act D) Meat Inspection Act

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Which group of immigrants helped complete the transcontinental railroad that started in San Francisco? A) Immigrants from Europe B) Immigrants from Ireland C) Immigrants from Denmark D) Immigration from China

D

Which group of people faced discrimination in America and were totally banned from entering as laborers in 1882? A) Japanese B) French C) Italians D) Chinese

D

Which of the following was a major problem immigrants experienced once arriving to the United States? A) Discrimination based on nationality B) Unsanitary and unsafe living conditions C) Political corruption from certain politicians D) All of the above

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Which of the following would not be considered a pull factor for immigration? A) Availability of jobs B) Religious freedom C) Availability of land D) Political persecution

D

Which was NOT a goal for workers organizing labor unions in the 1800's? A) Better working conditions B) Job security C) Improving wages D) Longer work days

D

Who started the American Federation of Labor (AFL)? A) William Jennings Bryan B) JP Morgan C) Thomas Nast D) Samuel Gompers

D

Whose book led to the direct passage of the Meat Inspection Act and indirect of the Pure Food and Drug Acts? A) Jacob Riis B) Lewis Hines C) Ida Tarbell D) Upton Sinclair

D

laws that allowed people who did not pass the literacy test to vote if their fathers or grandfathers voted before Reconstruction. Further excluded African Americans from voting A) radical B) Reconstruction C) sharecropping D) Grandfather Clause

D