Benchmarks

Question 0

______________invented the railroad sleeping car.

Answer 0

•George M Pullman

Question 1

The practice of combining separate companies in an industry is called a ____________.

Answer 1

•consolidation

Question 2

______________invented the electric lightbulb.

Answer 2

•Thomas Edison

Question 3

____________invented the telephone.

Answer 3

•Alexander Graham Bell

Question 4

The steel company owner who was a great philanthropist was _____________.

Answer 4

•Andrew Carnegie

Question 5

Railroad barons were created when the industry ____________.

Answer 5

•consolidated

Question 6

_____________ pioneered the assembly line.

Answer 6

•Henry Ford

Question 7

Anti-labor feeling grew after the bloody clash in Chicago called the ____________ Riot.

Answer 7

•Haymarket

Question 8

The demand to have a regulated schedule caused the railroad companies to create ____________.

Answer 8

•time zones

Question 9

I. The late 1800s and early 1900s, many people moved to cities to take ____________jobs.

Answer 9

•factory

Question 10

It took immigrants ____ days to cross the Atlantic Ocean.

Answer 10

•12

Question 11

Many immigrant lived in urban apartment called ___________.

Answer 11

•tenements

Question 12

_____________invented moving pictures.

Answer 12

•Thomas Edison

Question 13

Most Asian immigrants went through processing center on ____________Island.

Answer 13

•Angel

Question 14

___________was a settlement house founded by Jane Addams.

Answer 14

•Hull House

Question 15

_________________ designed Central Park and several other parks in Boston.

Answer 15

Fredrick Law Olmstand

Question 16

People might ___________from their homeland in order to find a better life in America.

Answer 16

•Emigrate

Question 17

To improve living conditions of the poor, ______________houses were established.

Answer 17

•settlement

Question 18

Many middle-class families moved from the cities into the ______________.

Answer 18

•Suburbs

Question 19

To maintain their culture, immigrants with the same language and customs tended to live in the same __________groups.

Answer 19

•ethnics groups and neighborhoods

Question 20

______________ was the first law passed to limit immigration.

Answer 20

•Chinese Exclusion Act

Question 21

What law required that immigrants be able to read or write in some language?

Answer 21

•Immigration Act of 1917

Question 22

___________argued that schools should be more hands- on and relate to students interest.

Answer 22

•John Dewey

Question 23

People enjoyed cheering for homes teams or local sports strs while attending ___________sports.

Answer 23

•spectator

Question 24

Nativist geared that immigrants would take away their jobs or drive down everyone’s wages by ___________ ______ ______.

Answer 24

•accepting lower pay

Question 25

Overcrowding in the caused sanitation and health problems , these problems were _____ to solve.

Answer 25

•hard

Question 26

The __________ ______ provided funds for land- grant colleges.

Answer 26

•Morrill Act

Question 27

A__________ allows citizens to place a measure or an issue on the ballot in a state election.

Answer 27

•initiative

Question 28

A ___________allows voters the opportunity to accept or reject measure that the legislature enacted.

Answer 28

•referendum

Question 29

A __________ allows voters to remove unsatisfactory elected officials from their jobs.

Answer 29

•recall

Question 30

Who won the election of 1908?

Answer 30

•William Howard Taft.

Question 31

In 1913 the Bull Moose Party presidential candidate was ______________.

Answer 31

•Theodore Roosevelt

Question 32

What was the Political Boss?

Answer 32

•to gain voted by doing favors

Question 33

What was the sixteenth amendment?

Answer 33

•taxed American citizens based on their income.

Question 34

What was the seventeenth amendment?

Answer 34

•progressives wanted to five people an opportunity to vote for senators directly.

Question 35

What was the eighteenth amendment?

Answer 35

•banned the making or selling of alcohol

Question 36

What was the nineteenth amendment?

Answer 36

•Granted women the right to vote.

Question 37

__________ was the first state to allow women to vote.

Answer 37

•Wyoming

Question 38

Theodore Roosevelt promised the people a ____________ _________ if he was elected president in 1904.

Answer 38

•square deal

Question 39

Who helped found National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?

Answer 39

•W.E.B Du Bios

Question 40

What is a muckraker?

Answer 40

•a journalist who uncovers corruption in a city.

Question 41

What is a labor union?

Answer 41

•An organization of wage earners that is set up to serve and advance it’s members interests in terms of wages, benefits, and working hours and conditions.

Question 42

How many states are in the continental United States?

Answer 42

•48