Question 1

The Interstate Commerce Act and The Sherman AntiTrust Act limited big business

Accepted Answer

True

Answer

False

Question 2

A goal of political bosses like Boss Tweed, was to give more power to voters

Accepted Answer

False

Answer

True

Question 3

Boss Tweed was an honest man

Accepted Answer

False

Answer

Who are we to judge

Answer

True

Question 4

Madame Sarah CJ Walker wrote against lynching in her newspaper

Accepted Answer

False

Answer

True

Question 5

Leaders in the African American community fought Anti-Semitism

Accepted Answer

False

Answer

True

Question 6

Booker T. Washington thought that African Americans should focus on learning useful trades

Accepted Answer

True

Answer

False

Question 7

The spoils system was known to be

Accepted Answer

corrupt

Answer

Anti Lynching Law

Answer

an African American college fund

Answer

honest

Question 8

The Temperance Movement wanted to outlaw

Accepted Answer

Alcohol

Answer

child labor

Answer

big business

Answer

The Women's Vote

Question 9

What was the gentleman's Agreement?

Accepted Answer

An informal, usually oral/verbal agreement or promise between two people, countries or groups

Answer

A Legal binding Contract between two people, countries, or groups

Question 10

Teddy Roosevelt's nickname for reform journalists and novelists was

Accepted Answer

muckrackers

Answer

reformers

Answer

progressives

Answer

recorders

Question 11

Mexican Americans formed self help groups called

Accepted Answer

mutualistas

Answer

barrios

Answer

Settlement Houses

Answer

los nortes

Question 12

How did some industrialists influence politics in the late 1800s?

Accepted Answer

They bribed members of congress

Answer

they ran for congress

Answer

they lobbied for the Pendleton Act

Question 13

An action by Congress that sought to tame business excesses was the

Accepted Answer

passage of the Sherman Antitrust Act

Answer

Passage of Pendleton Act

Answer

Prosecution of Boss Tweed

Answer

passage of the 16th Amendment

Question 14

Why were most national parks located in the west?

Accepted Answer

The west had more space

Answer

conservationists in the west cared more

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Roosevelt loved the west

Answer

Roosevelt wanted to stop lumber companies in the region

Question 15

What is Alice Paul known for?

Accepted Answer

being a suffragette (for womens voting rights)

Answer

Educator for African Americans

Answer

a person who broke up powerful businesses

Answer

voted corrupt official

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