Chapter 19 (the greatest amendment by far)

Question 1

The movement of people to cities?

Answer 1

Urbanization

Question 2

An exemption from a fee or exam to vote if a person, his father, or grandfather could vote before 1867?

Answer 2

Grandfather clause

Question 3

The separation of the races?

Answer 3

Segregation

Question 4

Laws that required the forced separation of the races in trains, schools, and other public accommodations?

Answer 4

Jim Crow Laws

Question 5

Those who believe humans cannot know whether there is a God?

Answer 5

Agnostics

Question 6

Groups dedicated to stopping the consumption of alcohol?

Answer 6

Temperance Societies

Question 7

Court case which ruled that separate but equal facilities were constitutional?

Answer 7

Plessy v. Ferguson

Question 8

The movement to bring about political and social reform through education and direct action by the government?

Answer 8

Progressivism

Question 9

A process for allowing voters to propose their own legislation?

Answer 9

Initiative

Question 10

A process where the voters determine whether to accept or reject a proposed law?

Answer 10

Referendum

Question 11

A vote to decide whether to remove an official from office before the end of his term?

Answer 11

Recall

Question 12

Writers who exposed abuse and corruption in government, business, and society?

Answer 12

Muckrakers

Question 13

Gave women the right to vote?

Answer 13

Nineteenth Amendment

Question 14

Provided for the direct election of senators?

Answer 14

Seventeenth Amendment

Question 15

Created the federal income tax?

Answer 15

Sixteenth Amendment

Question 16

Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages?

Answer 16

Eighteenth Amendment

Question 17

Each of the following is true about the new immigrants who came to America in the late1800s except that…
A. they became the workforce for many of the nation’s industries
B. they brought their traditions and culture which made America’s culture more diverse
C. they typically moved to rural areas in the South
D. it often took more than one generation for an immigrant family to be “Americanized”

Answer 17

C. they typically moved to rural areas in the South

Question 18

Each of the following was a challenge to Christianity in the late 1800s except that…
A. unorthodox groups such as the Jehovah’s Witnesses were formed
B. Christians stopped sending missionaries out into the world
C. agnostics questioned how anyone could know whether God exists
D. liberal Christians rejected the authority of the Bible, the supernatural, and the doctrine of salvation

Answer 18

B. Christians stopped sending missionaries out into the world

Question 19

Each of the following was a response of Christians to the challenges facing society during the late 1800s except…
A. the establishment of Christian organizations such as the YMCA and the Salvation Army
B. an increase in the number of American missionaries sent around the world
C. a decline in the number of people who identified as agnostics
D. the defense of the fundamental teachings of Christianity against liberalism

Answer 19

C. a decline in the number of people who identified as agnostics

Question 20

A popular preacher who attacked both liberalism and social problems while preaching the gospel of salvation was…

Answer 20

Billy Sunday

Question 21

A local New York politician who defrauded the city of millions of dollars before he was sent to prison was…

Answer 21

William “Boss” Tweed

Question 22

Theodore Roosevelt’s progressive activities as president included each of the following except…
A. intervening on the side of labor in a dispute with coal mine owners
B. enacting laws to regulate the food and drug industries
C. conserving land in national parks and forest reserves
D. using legal action against trusts he considered to be bad
E. enacting laws to protect the civil rights of blacks

Answer 22

E. enacting laws to protect the civil rights of blacks

Question 23

Woodrow Wilson practiced… ? …diplomacy, supporting those countries that provided the right to free elections and pressuring those that did not provide that freedom to begin doing so.

Answer 23

Moral

Question 24

Each of the following is true about the presidential election of 1912 except that…
A. Teddy Roosevelt decided to run against Taft because he believed Taft had abandoned progressive principles
B. the Republican Party split between Taft’s supporters and Roosevelt’s supporters
C. the Bull Moose Party won the election
D. Woodrow Wilson won despite winning less than half the popular vote
E. Roosevelt’s “New Nationalism” platform called for more regulation of business and social reform

Answer 24

C. the Bull Moose Party won the election

Question 25

The former slave who became leader of Tuskegee Institute was…

Answer 25

Booker T. Washington

Question 26

…taught at Tuskegee Institute and found hundreds of uses for peanuts.

Answer 26

George Washington Carver

Question 27

…tests were reading tests used to determine if a person could vote.

Answer 27

Literacy

Question 28

A… ? …tax was a tax required for people to vote.

Answer 28

Poll

Question 29

The founder of the NAACP, the first African American to receive a doctorate from Harvard, and an outspoken critic of discrimination was…

Answer 29

W.E.B. DuBois

Question 30

…were established to reach people in troubled neighborhoods
by providing food, shelter, and spiritual guidance.

Answer 30

Rescue missions

Question 31

Reformers founded… ? …houses to provide food, clothing, medical care, childcare, recreation, and classes to help those living in tenements.

Answer 31

Settlement

Question 32

The person who founded the Hull House in Chicago to aid the poor residents was…

Answer 32

Jane Addams

Question 33

The… ? …Act allowed federal inspectors to examine
slaughterhouses and meat companies and regulated companies that manufactured medications.

Answer 33

Pure Food and Drug

Question 34

The author of The Jungle, which exposed the unsafe and unsanitary practices in the meatpacking industry, was…

Answer 34

Upton Sinclair

Question 35

Theodore Roosevelt chose… ? …to be his successor as
the Republican candidate for president in 1908.

Answer 35

William Howard Taft

Question 36

Taft’s policy of influencing foreign affairs through the investment of American money in foreign countries was called… ? …diplomacy.

Answer 36

Dollar

Question 37

The party of progressives who followed Roosevelt in the split of the Republican Party was nicknamed the… ? …Party.

Answer 37

Bull Moose

Question 38

The former president of Princeton University and governor of New Jersey who won the election of 1912 as a Democrat was…

Answer 38

Woodrow Wilson (a racist)

Question 39

Under Wilson, Congress created the… ? …System, which divided the nation into twelve banking districts and created a national bank to control the amount of money in circulation and exercise control over many banking operations throughout the country.

Answer 39

Federal Reserve

Question 40

The Mexican bandit who murdered eighteen Americans in Mexico and seventeen more in New Mexico was…

Answer 40

Poncho Villa