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Question #1

This 1911 tragedy led to industrial safety laws:

A 1906 San Francisco Earthquake

B Sinking of the Titanic

C Ludlow Massacre

D Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

Question #2

Theodore Roosevelt ran on this party ticket in 1912:

A Republican Party

B Progressive Party

C Democratic Party

D Populist Party

Question #3

This Amendment allowed women to vote in federal elections:

A 18th Amendment

B 19th Amendment

C 17th 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 Patriot Acts

B Suppression and Rendition Acts

C Espionage and Sedition Acts

D Alien and Sedition ACts

Question #6

This Amendment created an Income Tax:

A 24th Amendment

B 19th Amendment

C 16th Amendment

D 15th 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 Sinclair Lewis

D John Dewey

Question #8

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

A Great White Fleet

B Panama Canal

C Pan American Highway

D Silk Road

Question #9

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

A Falun Gong Rebellion

B Taiping Rebellion

C Boxer Rebellion

D Moro Rebellion

Question #10

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

A Stanton v. Flynn

B Paul v. Tillich

C Lockner v. New York

D Muller v. Oregon

Question #11

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

A U.S. Steel

B Chase Manhattan Bank

C American Arms, Inc.

D Standard Oil

Question #12

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

A China

B Latin America

C The Philippines

D Europe

Question #13

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

A Pragmatism

B Postmodernism

C Trascendentalism

D Fascism

Question #14

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

A Brown v. Board of Education

B Plessy v. Ferguson

C Scott v. Sanford

D Munn v. Illinois

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 Henry George

D Matthew Brady

Question #16

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

A Samuel Gompers

B Charles Evans Hughes

C Eugene Debs

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 Populist Party

B Temperance Party

C Tammany Hall

D Republican Party

Question #18

Terence Powderly led this labor union that accepted any worker:

A Knights of Labor

B AF of L

C ILGWU

D Teamsters

Question #19

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

A J.P. Morgan

B Alexander Hamilton

C Cornelius Vanderbilt

D Arthur Greenspan

Question #20

This law established the federal civil service system:

A Sedition Act

B Dawes Act

C Harris Act

D Pendleton Act

Question #21

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

A James Garfield

B Franklin Roosevelt

C Chester Arthur

D Grover Cleveland

Question #22

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

A Scalawag Laws

B Nathan Forrest Laws

C Jim Crow Laws

D Radical Republican Laws

Question #23

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

A 21st Amendment

B 13th Amendment

C 15th Amendment

D 14th 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 Deconstruction

B Reconstruction

C Progressive Era

D Ante-Bellum World

Question #25

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

A Kansas-Nebraska Act

B Bill of Rights

C 14th and 15th Amendments

D Alien and Sedition Acts

Question #26

The revolutionary pamphlet Common Sense was written by:

A Thomas Jefferson

B Thomas Paine

C Patrick Henry

D Abraham Lincoln

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 Enlightenment

B The Great Awakening

C The Transcendental Two-Step

D The New Republic

Question #28

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

A Peter’s Projection

B Standard Projection

C Ong Projection

D Mercator Projection

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