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Which of the following was NOT invented after the Civil War?
a) Cotton Gin
b) Telephone
c) Automoblile
d) Westinghouse Air-Brake

A robber Baron is:
a) A republican that was sympathetic to the cause of ending Jim Crow
b) A politician that used bribery to triumph during the Gilded Age
c) A wealthy industrialist who took advantage of the industrial revolution and form monopolies
d) A criminal during wartime

Which of the following is a cause of the Great Depression
a) Money lost from prohibition
b) WWII
c) The Crash of the Stock Market
d) The loss of the gold standard

Which of the following is a cause for US neutrality during WWI?
a) The sinking of the Lusitania.
b) The multicultural population throughout the United States.
c) The Zimmerman note
d) none of these

Which of the following is a major outcome of the launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik?
a) A increase in the focus of science education in public schools
b) The US decision to launch the Manhattan Project.
c) The Cold War
d) The U2 Spy Plan incident

Jim Crow laws were:
a) Laws that created voting districts to drawn in a way that they favored a particular political party.
b) Laws that legalized segregation and discrimination of African Americans in public places
c) Laws that allowed schools to integrate in the 1960s and 1970s.
d) None of these

The Dawes Act:
a) Forced the end of Child Labor
b) Prohibited the sale and consumption of Alcohol
c) Began the sale of Indian land not being used for farming
d) Allowed the United States to declare war on Germany

Which of the following US presidents was known for his Big Stick Policy?
a) Franklin D Roosevelt
b) Theodore Roosevelt
c) Woodrow Wilson
d) Lincoln

Which of the following was NOT a major goal of Progressive Reformers in the early 1900s?
a) Prohibition of Alcohol
b) Abolition of slavery
c) Protection of worker's rights
d) ending child labor

The Panama Canal allowed
a) Connection between the Great Lakes and the Hudson river
b) Navigation through Central America from the Pacific to the Atlantic
c) Navigation of the Mississippi
d) Travel between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea

The ruling in the case Plessy V. Ferguson stated:
a) That FDR was not allowed to pack the Supreme Court
b) That separate was equal but equal was the law
c) That the government must act in order to combat the poverty the Great Depression had created
d) President Andrew Jackson was not allowed to move the Cherokee people from their land

Which of the following was NOT a major goal of the Labor Movement in the United States?
a) 8-hour workday
b) Ending Child labor
c) condemning US Imperialism
d) Creating safer work conditions

What was the Great Migration?
a) A book written by Teddy Roosevelt
b) A wave of Immigration from Ireland to New York in the 1880s
c) A legendary movement of birds that took place in St. Augustine, FL in the Winter of 1927
d) The movement of African Americans from the rural south to the Urban North in the early 1900s

The difference between a horizontal and vertical monopoly is
a) Vertical monopolies were typically businesses based out of skyscrapers whereas horizontal monopolies had many locations
b) Vertical monopolies focused on taking over each step in the production process
c) Vertical monopolies involved taking over all of one step in the production process
d) Vertical monopolies were not effective at helping get members of congress elected to office

The word annex means:
a) To put a tax on foreign imports
b) To declare war on
c) To add a territory to your country
d) none of these

A monopoly is:
a) Government regulation of the economy
b) The ability for anyone to buy or sell a good
c) When only a single individual can sell a good or service
d) A tax put on foreign goods.

The Reconstruction Era was ended by which of the following events
a) The court case Plessy V. Ferguson
b) The end of the Civil War
c) The Compromise of 1877
d) The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

An Empire is:
a) A country with a very powerful government
b) A country with a very large military
c) A nation that tries to take over other nations
d) A country that is ruled over by an emperor or a king

Which of the following is NOT a method that the Robber Barons used to control society?
a) Forming vertical and horizontal monopolies
b) Creating political machines that rigged elections
c) working with Unions to increase wages
d) none of these

The primary cause of WWI was
a) Political corruption from the Robber Barons
b) The assassination of archduke Franz Ferdinand
c) German invasion of Africa
d) none of these

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