US History unit 2

Question 0

Initiative allows citizens to?

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Answer 0

Propose and pass a law directly without involving the state legislature

Question 1

What was the result for children when 39 states prohibit children under the age 14 from working?

Answer 1

​There was an increase of children going to school.

Question 2

What were the goals of the NAACP?

Answer 2

​They protested against lynching and other racist violence

Question 3

Describe New York’s Lower East Side in 1900?

Answer 3

​Over population, unsanitary, and bad infrastructure

Question 4

What did the Pendleton Act reform?

Answer 4

​Rules and regulation regarding who could be hired for a certain job within the federal government

Question 5

Describe what a party boss is?

Answer 5

Political leader that is usually corrupt

Question 6

Who is the Arthur of the novel “The Jungle” and what did it expose?
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Answer 6

Upton Clair exposed the unsanitary and filthy conditions of the meat factories

Question 7

Which progressive reform was enacted by a constitutional amendment?

Answer 7

​Women’s Suffrage

Question 8

Who demand that big business give the people a “square deal”?

Answer 8

​Theodore Roosevelt

Question 9

10. How did Presidents Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson protect the environment?

Answer 9

​By setting aside land for national parks

Question 10

11. What was the purpose of the Federal Reserve System?

Answer 10

​Restricted corporate influence and reduce government corruption

Question 11

12. How did Taft ruin his reputation as a progressive?

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Answer 11

He signed the Payne-Aldrich Bill that raised taxation rates

Question 12

13. What are the aspects of President Wilson’s New Freedom progressive reform plan?

Answer 12

​Limit the power of trusts, gave more freedom to small businesses, and free kids from work

Question 13

14. What was President Roosevelt’s perspective on monopolies?

Answer 13

​Regulate monopolies (Sherman Antitrust Act, Clayton Antitrust Act, and Square Deal)

Question 14

15. What did the Homestead Act provide to settlers?

Answer 14

​Several US Federal laws that gave an applicant ownership of land at little or no cost

Question 15

16. Why did the US Government set up schools for the American Indians?

Answer 15

Americanize them

Question 16

17. What did the Populist Party support in the late 1800s?

Answer 16

​Advocate a larger money supply and other economic reforms

Question 17

18. What do the Pullman Strike, Homestead Strike, and Haymarket Affair have in common?

Answer 17

​There was a disagreement resulting in a strike

Question 18

19. Who headed the American Railway Union and led the fight against mgmt. during the Pullman Strike?

Answer 18

​Eugene Debs

Question 19

20. What makes the Railroad Strike (Pullman Strike) of 1877 significant?

Answer 19

​First time a government called an army to break up a strike / fight

Question 20

21. The amendment that established a federal income tax?

Answer 20

​16th Amendment

Question 21

22. The amendment that gave women the right to vote?

Answer 21

​19th Amendment

Question 22

23. What were the major goals of the Hull House (Jane Addams)?
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Answer 22

Provide social and educational opportunities for working class people

Question 23

24. Under the US Constitution, when can the government take private land?

Answer 23

​The government pays the owners a fair compensation for the land

Question 24

25. During the Gilded Age, there was an increase in federal support for?

Answer 24

​The growth of big business

Question 25

26. Explain the US Supreme Court decision Plessey v. Ferguson

Answer 25

​Separate but equal is fair, and created a legal justification for segregation laws