Common Assessment Quiz # 1
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This quiz will check your understanding of chapter 5 & 6. It is the first in a series of common assessments throughout this year.
- 1.The worst possible outcome of discrimination against African Americans
- A.
Was confinement to separate but equal facilities.
- B.
Was thirty days in jail.
- C.
Were Jim Crow penalties.
- D.
Were lynchings.
- 2.Nativists resented immigrants because
- A.
Immigrants often took the best-paying jobs.
- B.
Immigrants often spoke English better than they did.
- C.
They blamed immigrants for increases in crime and poverty and said immigrants took jobs away from Americans.
- D.
Settlement houses excluded native-born Americans from social and cultural programs.
- 3.How did Social Darwinists apply Darwin’s theories to society?
- A.
They advocated for a graduated income tax to reduce the gap between rich and poor.
- B.
They believed poor people and recent immigrants should be given social services to help them compete in a capitalist society.
- C.
They invented vertical and horizontal integration as big business techniques.
- D.
They believed that stronger people, businesses, and nations would prosper, while weaker ones would fail.
- 4.Anti-suffragists feared that if women got the right to vote, they would
- A.
Demand in-home childcare while they went to the polls.
- B.
Repeal alcohol taxes since they used alcohol for many medicinal purposes.
- C.
Ignore their duties at home.
- D.
Vote for passage of more healthcare measures and thus have more babies.
- 5.This event was a turning point for reform in workplace safety.
- A.
The IWW textile workers strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts
- B.
Lochner v. New York
- C.
The Teapot Dome scandal
- D.
Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire
- 6.The struggle for women’s suffrage resulted in a final victory with the ratification of the
- A.
NAWSA.
- B.
Nineteenth Amendment.
- C.
Constitution.
- D.
Suffrage Act.
- 7.How did muckrakers prepare the way for political reforms?
- A.
They organized labor strikes.
- B.
They exposed corruption by writing about it.
- C.
They testified in Senate hearings.
- D.
They hired lawyers to settle disputes about safety.
- 8.In the 15 years immediately following the passage of the New York Tenement Act of 1901, what evidence showed that the environment for residents was healthier?
- A.
The amount of nutritious food sold by New York grocers increased.
- B.
The number of wrongful death lawsuits went down.
- C.
Landlords’ insurance rates dropped.
- D.
Death rates in New York dropped dramatically.
- 9.What political reform was enacted through the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment?
- A.
The creation of the posts of city commissioners
- B.
The elimination of the position of city manager
- C.
The direct election of senators
- D.
The ending of jail time for failure to pay debts
- 10.Reformers called for prohibition because they believed that alcohol
- A.
Was responsible for crime, poverty, and violence against women.
- B.
Was produced under unsanitary conditions.
- C.
Caused health problems.
- D.
Production lines were liable to burst into flames under the right conditions.
- 11.Upton Sinclair’s shocking novel The Jungle sparked an investigation that led to
- A.
The creation of the Interstate Commerce Commission.
- B.
Anti-trust legislation.
- C.
The passage of the Meat Inspection Act.
- D.
The passage of the Elkins Act.
- 12.Theodore Roosevelt created the U.S. Forest Service and the National Park Service because
- A.
He recognized that natural resources were limited and believed that their use needed to be controlled.
- B.
He thought the land could be developed more efficiently and profitably by government.
- C.
He feared the consequences for industry if the open forests were under the care of only conservationists.
- D.
He realized that lumber was too valuable a commodity to be kept inaccessible to business.
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