Age Of Reform

Question 0

The Great __________ Fire supposedly started when Mrs. O’Leary’s cow kicked over a lantern.

Answer 0

Chicago

Question 1

___________ Jews are associated with Germany.

Answer 1

Ashkenazic

Question 2

Who organized the Knights of Labour?

Answer 2

Uriah Stephens

Question 3

Who was assassinated by Charles Guiteau?

Answer 3

James A. Garfield

Question 4

Who constructed a model company town?

Answer 4

George Pullman

Question 5

President _____________ was assassinated by Leon Czolgosz.

Answer 5

William McKinley

Question 6

The ____________ has been called the “melting point of nations.”

Answer 6

United States

Question 7

The English religion background has influenced America’s culture, law, and _________.

Answer 7

Religion

Question 8

The King James Version of the Bible is an ________ literary masterpiece.

Answer 8

English

Question 9

During the __________, Europeans came to America to work in factories but dreamed of land on which to farm.

Answer 9

Old Immigration

Question 10

The __________ occurred from the 1880s to World War 1.

Answer 10

New Immigration

Question 11

The only never freely chose to come to America were _________ immigrants.

Answer 11

Black

Question 12

Cuban immigrants came to the United States in the 1960s to escape __________ dictatorship.

Answer 12

Fidel Castro’s

Question 13

American _________ likely migrated to United States across the Bering Strait.

Answer 13

Indians

Question 14

____________ came to America searching for the Messiah.

Answer 14

Rabbi Leopold Cohn

Question 15

Most Americans lived in ______ areas before the War Between the States.

Answer 15

Rural

Question 16

Three constant dangers to city dwellers were ______, diseases, and crime.

Answer 16

Fires

Question 17

Factories with terrible working conditions were called “_________.”

Answer 17

Sweatshops

Question 18

Factory workers were often _________ and children.

Answer 18

Women

Question 19

The Knights of Labor supported an eight-hour workday and abolishment of __________, but they opposed strikes.

Answer 19

Child labor

Question 20

After the War Between the States, the was a shift from self-sufficient farming to _____________ farming.

Answer 20

Commercial

Question 21

___________ regulated the rates and practices of grain elevator and railroads within a state.

Answer 21

Granger Laws

Question 22

__________ were paper money without specie backing that were printed on green paper and circulated during the War Between the States.

Answer 22

Greenbacks

Question 23

One way to keep money stable is to base it on a ________ standard.

Answer 23

Gold

Question 24

The _________ Act demonetized silver.

Answer 24

Coinage

Question 25

The Populist Party was in favor of free and unlimited coinage of __________ at a ratio of 16 to 1.

Answer 25

Silver

Question 26

List the party affliction of each Presidential candidate I in the election of 1892.

- Democratic \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
- Populist \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
- Republican \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_

Answer 26

Grover Cleveland; James B. Weaver; Benjamin Harrison

Question 27

In 1896 __________ was the Presidential nominee of both the Democratic and Populist political parties.

Answer 27

William Jennings Bryan

Question 28

Who was a leader of the American Railway Union?

Answer 28

John Newton

Question 29

Who wrote “Amazing Grace?”

Answer 29

Emma Lazarus

Question 30

Who wrote “It Is Well With My Soul?”

Answer 30

H. G. Spafford

Question 31

Who established the American Federation of Labor?

Answer 31

Samuel Gompers