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Question #1

This 1911 tragedy led to industrial safety laws:

A Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

B Ludlow Massacre

C 1906 San Francisco Earthquake

D Sinking of the Titanic

Question #2

Theodore Roosevelt ran on this party ticket in 1912:

A Populist Party

B Progressive Party

C Republican Party

D Democratic Party

Question #3

This Amendment allowed women to vote in federal elections:

A 17th Amendment

B 19th Amendment

C 18th Amendment

D 15th Amendment

Question #4

This post-WWI agreement reshaped the map of the world and imposed reparations payments on Germany:

A Nazi Soviet Pact

B Mein Kampf

C Kellogg-Briand Pact

D Treaty of Versailles

Question #5

These WWI era laws made it a violation to speak against American involvement in the war:

A Suppression and Rendition Acts

B Espionage and Sedition Acts

C Patriot Acts

D Alien and Sedition ACts

Question #6

This Amendment created an Income Tax:

A 19th Amendment

B 16th Amendment

C 15th Amendment

D 24th Amendment

Question #7

This author inspired the Pure Food and Drug Act when he published The Jungle:

A John Dewey

B John Dos Passos

C Upton Sinclair

D Sinclair Lewis

Question #8

Theodore Roosevelt created a new country in order to enhance U.S. trade with this building project:

A Panama Canal

B Great White Fleet

C Silk Road

D Pan American Highway

Question #9

Chinese farmers and students fought against European and American imperialism in the:

A Taiping Rebellion

B Moro Rebellion

C Falun Gong Rebellion

D Boxer Rebellion

Question #10

This Supreme Court case confirmed the legitimacy of the 8 hour day for women:

A Stanton v. Flynn

B Paul v. Tillich

C Lockner v. New York

D Muller v. Oregon

Question #11

J.P. Morgan merged his own holdings with Carnegie’s to form

A U.S. Steel

B American Arms, Inc.

C Standard Oil

D Chase Manhattan Bank

Question #12

The Open Door Policy was meant to open markets to the United States in:

A China

B Latin America

C Europe

D The Philippines

Question #13

Charles Sander Peirce and William James proposed a new philosophical trend know as:

A Fascism

B Trascendentalism

C Pragmatism

D Postmodernism

Question #14

This Gilded Age Supreme Court case confirmed the legality of the Jim Crow concept of “separate but equal”:

A Plessy v. Ferguson

B Brown v. Board of Education

C Scott v. Sanford

D Munn v. Illinois

Question #15

This late nineteenth century author and social critic published a photo essay called How the Other Half Lives.

A Matthew Brady

B Allen Eastman

C Jacob Riis

D Henry George

Question #16

The American Railway Union at the time of the Pullman Strike was headed future presidential candidate:

A Charles Evans Hughes

B Samuel Gompers

C William Jennings Bryan

D Eugene Debs

Question #17

This Gilded Age political organization allied southern farmers and western miners in an attempt to take the government back for the people:

A Temperance Party

B Republican Party

C Tammany Hall

D Populist Party

Question #18

Terence Powderly led this labor union that accepted any worker:

A Teamsters

B AF of L

C ILGWU

D Knights of Labor

Question #19

The most powerful banker in the U.S. during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era was:

A Arthur Greenspan

B J.P. Morgan

C Cornelius Vanderbilt

D Alexander Hamilton

Question #20

This law established the federal civil service system:

A Harris Act

B Dawes Act

C Pendleton Act

D Sedition Act

Question #21

This was the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms.

A James Garfield

B Chester Arthur

C Franklin Roosevelt

D Grover Cleveland

Question #22

This was the term used to describe segregationist laws in the South>

A Jim Crow Laws

B Radical Republican Laws

C Scalawag Laws

D Nathan Forrest Laws

Question #23

The amendment to the Constitution that freed the slaves was the:

A 14th Amendment

B 15th Amendment

C 13th Amendment

D 21st Amendment

Question #24

The twelve years following the Civil War, when the country was trying to bring the South back into the Union and attempting to protect the rights of former slaves, were known as:

A Deconstruction

B Reconstruction

C Ante-Bellum World

D Progressive Era

Question #25

Two laws passes during the John Adams Administration that made it illegal to denigrate the government were the:

A Alien and Sedition Acts

B Bill of Rights

C Kansas-Nebraska Act

D 14th and 15th Amendments

Question #26

The revolutionary pamphlet Common Sense was written by:

A Patrick Henry

B Thomas Jefferson

C Abraham Lincoln

D Thomas Paine

Question #27

The late 16th and 17th centuries sported a philosohpical outlook based on reason and rationality rather than faith. This was called:

A The Great Awakening

B The Enlightenment

C The Transcendental Two-Step

D The New Republic

Question #28

One map projection that gets the shapes wrong but gets the sizes right is the:

A Standard Projection

B Ong Projection

C Peter’s Projection

D Mercator Projection

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