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Question #1

This 1911 tragedy led to industrial safety laws:

A Sinking of the Titanic

B 1906 San Francisco Earthquake

C Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

D Ludlow Massacre

Question #2

Theodore Roosevelt ran on this party ticket in 1912:

A Republican Party

B Progressive Party

C Populist Party

D Democratic Party

Question #3

This Amendment allowed women to vote in federal elections:

A 19th Amendment

B 17th Amendment

C 18th Amendment

D 15th Amendment

Question #4

This post-WWI agreement reshaped the map of the world and imposed reparations payments on Germany:

A Mein Kampf

B Treaty of Versailles

C Kellogg-Briand Pact

D Nazi Soviet Pact

Question #5

These WWI era laws made it a violation to speak against American involvement in the war:

A Alien and Sedition ACts

B Suppression and Rendition Acts

C Espionage and Sedition Acts

D Patriot Acts

Question #6

This Amendment created an Income Tax:

A 15th Amendment

B 19th Amendment

C 24th Amendment

D 16th Amendment

Question #7

This author inspired the Pure Food and Drug Act when he published The Jungle:

A Upton Sinclair

B John Dos Passos

C John Dewey

D Sinclair Lewis

Question #8

Theodore Roosevelt created a new country in order to enhance U.S. trade with this building project:

A Silk Road

B Great White Fleet

C Panama Canal

D Pan American Highway

Question #9

Chinese farmers and students fought against European and American imperialism in the:

A Moro Rebellion

B Boxer Rebellion

C Falun Gong Rebellion

D Taiping Rebellion

Question #10

This Supreme Court case confirmed the legitimacy of the 8 hour day for women:

A Paul v. Tillich

B Stanton v. Flynn

C Muller v. Oregon

D Lockner v. New York

Question #11

J.P. Morgan merged his own holdings with Carnegie’s to form

A Standard Oil

B American Arms, Inc.

C Chase Manhattan Bank

D U.S. Steel

Question #12

The Open Door Policy was meant to open markets to the United States in:

A Latin America

B China

C The Philippines

D Europe

Question #13

Charles Sander Peirce and William James proposed a new philosophical trend know as:

A Pragmatism

B Trascendentalism

C Postmodernism

D Fascism

Question #14

This Gilded Age Supreme Court case confirmed the legality of the Jim Crow concept of “separate but equal”:

A Scott v. Sanford

B Munn v. Illinois

C Plessy v. Ferguson

D Brown v. Board of Education

Question #15

This late nineteenth century author and social critic published a photo essay called How the Other Half Lives.

A Allen Eastman

B Jacob Riis

C Matthew Brady

D Henry George

Question #16

The American Railway Union at the time of the Pullman Strike was headed future presidential candidate:

A Charles Evans Hughes

B Eugene Debs

C Samuel Gompers

D William Jennings Bryan

Question #17

This Gilded Age political organization allied southern farmers and western miners in an attempt to take the government back for the people:

A Temperance Party

B Tammany Hall

C Populist Party

D Republican Party

Question #18

Terence Powderly led this labor union that accepted any worker:

A ILGWU

B Teamsters

C AF of L

D Knights of Labor

Question #19

The most powerful banker in the U.S. during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era was:

A Alexander Hamilton

B J.P. Morgan

C Arthur Greenspan

D Cornelius Vanderbilt

Question #20

This law established the federal civil service system:

A Harris Act

B Sedition Act

C Dawes Act

D Pendleton Act

Question #21

This was the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms.

A Grover Cleveland

B Franklin Roosevelt

C Chester Arthur

D James Garfield

Question #22

This was the term used to describe segregationist laws in the South>

A Radical Republican Laws

B Nathan Forrest Laws

C Jim Crow Laws

D Scalawag Laws

Question #23

The amendment to the Constitution that freed the slaves was the:

A 21st Amendment

B 13th Amendment

C 14th Amendment

D 15th Amendment

Question #24

The twelve years following the Civil War, when the country was trying to bring the South back into the Union and attempting to protect the rights of former slaves, were known as:

A Reconstruction

B Ante-Bellum World

C Progressive Era

D Deconstruction

Question #25

Two laws passes during the John Adams Administration that made it illegal to denigrate the government were the:

A 14th and 15th Amendments

B Kansas-Nebraska Act

C Alien and Sedition Acts

D Bill of Rights

Question #26

The revolutionary pamphlet Common Sense was written by:

A Thomas Paine

B Abraham Lincoln

C Patrick Henry

D Thomas Jefferson

Question #27

The late 16th and 17th centuries sported a philosohpical outlook based on reason and rationality rather than faith. This was called:

A The Great Awakening

B The New Republic

C The Transcendental Two-Step

D The Enlightenment

Question #28

One map projection that gets the shapes wrong but gets the sizes right is the:

A Mercator Projection

B Ong Projection

C Peter’s Projection

D Standard Projection

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