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1 Student Name: Teacher Name: Patrick O Conner 1) The purpose of Jim Crow laws was to A) prevent black citizens from obtaining employment. B) limit the religious activities of southern citizens. C) create as much division between the races as possible. D) make it illegal for black children to receive an education. Date: Score: 2) Jane Addams's "Hull House" of the late-19th century was A) supported and funded by Congress. B) ruled to be unconstitutional in C) created to help adjust immigrants into the United States. D) helped to retrain Native Americans forced off of their land. 3) The U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson, (1896) determined that segregation was acceptable under the condition that A) all children receive permission to attend the same school. B) whites receive higher quality facilities and services than blacks. C) the segregation laws did not spread outside of the Southern states. D) the separate facilities or services for both races be of equal quality. 4) Upton Sinclair's The Jungle impacted the passage of the A) Twentieth Amendment. B) Eighteenth Amendment. C) Nineteenth Amendment. D) Meat Inspection Act in ) The direct election of U.S. Senators, women's suffrage, and greater government regulation of large industries were all issues of importance in the early 1900s to the A) Democrats. B) Federalists. C) Know-Nothings. D) Progressives. 6) The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution were undermined by all of the following EXCEPT A) Jim Crow Laws. B) literacy tests. C) Plessy v. Ferguson. D) Brown v. Board of Education. 7) Which of these was a characteristic of the Progressive movement? A) constant pressure to reduce government regulation and control of business B) efforts to increase the control held by the nation's elite, upper class citizens C) passage of Civil Rights legislation to end segregation and discrimination in the south D) work towards the removal of corrupt influences on local, state, and national government 8) Theodore Roosevelt is often called a "Progressive" President. Which of these would BEST be an example of this label? A) his refusal to seek a third term as President B) he backed the construction of the Panama Canal C) his support of "banana republics" in Latin American. D) he supported passage of the Food and Drug Act of 1906

2 9) Which group was founded by W.E.B. DuBois and others in 1909 to promote equal treatment of Blacks in America? A) The Black Panthers B) The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) C) The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) D) The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) 10) A "muckraker" MOST likely would have been A) one who supported a ban on alcohol. B) an agitator in the Civil Rights movement. C) a supporter of President Nixon during Watergate. D) against abuses of industrial workers in the early 1900s. 11) This picture represents an issue that was dealt with MOST successfully by which political movement? A) Democrat B) Populist C) Progressive D) Republican 12) Jacob Riis, Upton Sinclair, Lincoln Steffens, and Ida Tarbell are all associated with what American literary movement? A) Muckrakers B) Romanticism C) Transcendentalism D) Harlem Renaissance

3 13) Seventeenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures. This amendment significantly increased the power of American voters by A) allowing citizens to vote every six years. B) allowing citizens to directly elect their Senators. C) preventing poll taxes from being levied against black voters. D) granting women the right to vote in federal and state elections. 14) Excerpt from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (1906) "It seemed that he was working in the room where the men prepared the beef for canning, and the beef had lain in vats full of chemicals, and men with great forks speared it out and dumped it into trucks, to be taken to the cooking room. When they had speared out all they could reach, they emptied the vat on the floor, and then with shovels scraped up the balance and dumped it into the truck. This floor was filthy, yet they set Antanas with his mop slopping the "pickle" into a hole that connected with a sink, where it was caught and used over again forever; and if that were not enough, there was a trap in the pipe, where all the scraps of meat and odds and ends of refuse were caught, and every few days it was the old man's task to clean these out, and shovel their contents into one of the trucks with the rest of the meat!" Many historians have argued that the conditions represented in the novel The Jungle were caused by A) the country's strict belief in laissez-faire economics. B) the belief that a vegetarian diet was a communist plot. C) a lack of labor supply in major American industrial centers. D) differing hygiene standards brought into the U.S. by immigrants. 15) Women's suffrage tighter Child Labor laws land conservation programs "Trustbusting" of corporations All of these are describing issues that were successfully addressed during which era? A) Jacksonian Era B) Progressive Era C) Era of Prohibition D) Era of Good Feelings

4 16) Excerpt from How the Other Half Lives, by Jacob A. Riis, 1890 The truth is that pauperism grows in the tenements as naturally as weeds in a garden lot. A moral distemper, like crime, it finds there its most fertile soil. All the surroundings of tenement-house life favor its growth, and where once it has taken root it is harder to dislodge than the most virulent of physical diseases. The thief is infinitely easier to deal with than the pauper, because the very fact of his being a thief presupposes some bottom to the man. Granted that it is bad, there is still something, a possible handle by which to catch him. To the pauper there is none. He is as hopeless as his own poverty. This passage would have been used for what purpose? A) to urge harsher penalties against paupers and thieves B) to convince the public that people in poverty need help C) to expose the corruption in government housing projects D) to argue that the poor are responsible for rising crime rates 17) Ida Tarbell is known as being a muckraking journalist for her exposing of abuses in which industry? A) oil B) steel C) automobile D) meatpacking 18) Jacob Riis publishes How the Other Half Lives, detailing tenement life Ida Tarbell publishes articles criticizing Standard Oil Company.?????????? Edwin Markham publishes Children in Bondage, an exposé of child labor. Which choice fits in the blank in this Progressive Era timeline? A) Helen Hunt Jackson publishes <iregarding treatment of Native Americans</i B) Upton Sinclair publishes The Jungle, criticizing the working conditions in the U.S. meat processing industry C) Theodore Roosevelt Publishes The Square Deal in which he addresses problems in the treatment of American unions D) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle publishes The Lost World showing the deforestation of the rain forests. 19) Guam Philippines Puerto Rico All of these territories came under the control of the United States following what conflict? A) Mexican War B) World War I C) War of 1812 D) Spanish American War

5 20) The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine called for A) investing in the economic development of Latin America. B) pledging to help Japan and Russia negotiate a peace settlement. C) prohibiting foreign countries from purchasing land in the Western Hemisphere. D) intervening in Latin American countries that could not pay their debt to European creditors. 21) In 1882, Congress passed an "exclusion act" which prevented the immigration of workers from what country for 10 years? A) China B) Ireland C) Japan D) Mexico 22) A major reason why the United States oversaw the building of the Panama Canal was to A) fulfill our treaty obligations to Spain. B) increase the prosperity of Central America. C) insure the re-election of President McKinley. D) increase the mobility of the U.S. naval fleet. 23) This cartoon is referring to the the American foreign policy of A) invading Latin American countries. B) isolating itself from international matters. C) building a strong military in order to expand U.S. influence. D) electing former military leaders as Presidents of the country. 24) The United States felt that it was important to complete the construction and control of the Panama Canal because A) it would help spread democracy to smaller nations. B) it would prevent Russia from doing the same thing. C) it allowed the United States to colonize Central and South America. D) it allowed ships to cross directly between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

6 25) The Roosevelt Corollary, issued in 1904, was a revision to what earlier statement of U.S. foreign policy? A) the Madison Treaty B) the Monroe Doctrine C) the Open Door Policy D) the Kellogg-Briand Pact 26) On what geographical area did the US concentrate in order to expand its influence during the late 1800s and early 1900s? A) West America B) Western Europe C) the Indian Ocean D) the Caribbean Sea 27) The Rough Riders, pictured here, were a group of soldiers that fought in the famed "Battle of San Juan Hill" against what country? A) Italy B) Spain C) Mexico D) North Korea 28) According to imperialists, which of these would have been an economic justification for the expansion of the United States? A) The nation needed a stronger military since other nations were building a global presence. B) The nation should colonize as many available lands to prevent other countries from expanding. C) The nation's manufacturers needed raw materials and new markets were needed for the nation's goods. D) The nation had a responsibility to spread Christianity and civilization to "inferior peoples" of the world. 29) The Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) was the first significant restriction on free immigration in U.S. history. This law excluded all immigrants who were "skilled and unskilled laborers and Chinese employed in mining" from entering the country for ten years under penalty of imprisonment and deportation. Because this specified a specific ethnic group from entering the United States, many now view this law as being xenophobic. What does the term xenophobic mean? A) an unconstitutional law B) the belief in immigrant quotas C) a dislike of people from other countries D) a dislike or fear of people who are xenos

7 30) Refers to the pursuit of foreign policy objectives with the aid of conspicuous displays of military power. The stronger nation implies a direct threat of warfare, should the weaker nation refuse to cooperate. Which term describes this type of diplomacy, which was used specifically to describe American actions during Panama's revolution? A) "Containment" B) "Power Projection" C) "Dollar Diplomacy" D) "Gunboat Diplomacy" 31) Which of these took place in Promontory, Utah, in 1869? A) the largest discovery of silver in American history B) the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad C) a massacre of Cheyenne Indians D) a massacre of Sioux Indians 32) Ghost Dance Lakota Sioux Big Foot Col. James W. Forsyth These terms areall associated with what event in 1890? Little Big A) Horn Red B) Cloud's War C) Promontory Point Wounded D) Knee Massacre 33) Samuel Gompers was a leading proponent of what industrial issue? A) vertical integration B) the formation of trusts C) the crushing of labor unions D) the formation of labor unions 34) The "New Immigration" to the United States in the late-nineteenth century refers to the increased numbers of people arriving from A) East Asia. B) South America. C) Northern Europe. D) Southern Europe.

8 35) What term BEST describes the U.S. government's policies towards businesses in the late 19th century? A) Imperialist B) Laissez-faire C) Mercantilist D) Protectionist