This document provides a 25 question multiple choice test on topics relating to US history from the late 19th century through the early 20th century. The test covers subjects like the meatpacking industry, the Gilded Age, progressivism, Native American assimilation, inventions, trusts and monopolies, and important figures and events in the fight for civil rights.

1. Graduation Exam
Ch. 7 Test
1. What novel was highly acclaimed for exposing problems the meatpacking industry?
a. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
b. The Jungle
c. Tom Sawyer
d. Chicago Expose
2. Andrew Carnegie believed that the wealthy should give back riches to the community.
What was this belief called?
a. Rags to Riches
b. Charity
c. Salvation Army
d. Gospel of Wealth
3. What was the name of the act where Congress wanted to assimilate Native Americans
into the mainstream of society by dissolving reservations and giving each Native American
family 160 acres to farm?
a. The American Federation of Labor Act
b. Dawes Act
c. Emergency Quota Act
d. Clayton Antitrust Act
4 . What caused many people in the United States to leave their farms and move to the
city for higher wages?
a. monopolies
b. industrialization
c. Fair Labor Act
d. The Gold Rush
Study the list below.
• Telephone
• Typewriter
• Transatlantic cable
5. Which was a result of the inventions shown in the list?
a. a decrease in the use of electricity
b. a decline in the number of factories
c. a movement of people from cities to farms
d. a growth of new industries

2. 6. Only one supplier for a particular industry is known as
a. supplier
b. robber baron
c. monopoly
d. union
7. Who pushed for public education for men and women in the early 19th century?
a. William Tweed
b. Ida Tarbell
c. Upton Sinclair
d. Horace Mann
Study the diagram below
Robber Barons
Andrew Carnegie U . S . Steel Company
? Standard Oil
Company 8. Which
completes this
diagram?
a. Horatio Alger
b. Upton Sinclair
c. Teddy Roosevelt
d. John D. Rockefeller
9. Which amendment to the Constitution provided for the election of senators from each
state?
a. 14th
b. 16th
c. 15th
d. 17th
10. What was the purpose of the Federal Trade Commission?
a. To protect companies against unions
b. to investigate companies for unfair business practices
c. to establish safe labor practices
d. to eliminate smaller companies
11. What act passed during President Theodore Roosevelt’s term was enacted to protect
the health of United States consumers?
a. Sherman Antitrust Act
b. Federal Food Commission
c. Food and Drug Act
d. National Origins Act of 1924

3. 12. Which black leader helped organize a group of black intellectuals known as the
Niagara Movement?
a. George Washington Carver
b. W.C. Handey
c. Langston Hughes
d. W.E.B DuBois
13. The Native American way of life was forever changed when
a. Western settlers allowed them to vote
b. Western settlers destroyed the buffalo
c. The United States government paid Native Americans reparations
d. Western settlers shared the gold supply found in California
14. The early 1900s saw a shift in U.S. population growth
a. from cities to farms
b. from large states to small states
c. from farms to rural areas
d. from rural areas to urban areas
15. The Transcontinental Railroad and other railways were needed
a. For shipping supplies and goods
b. For leisure travel
c. To transport soldiers across the U.S.
d. To compete with automobiles
16. The growth of Birmingham, Alabama in the early 1900s was due in part to
a. the iron resources found there
b. its location at the mouth of the Alabama River
c. the Spanish influence on the government
d. the need for cotton around the south
Study the quote below.
When [President Abraham] Lincoln was
assassinated, it actually took 12 days for the news
to travel to Britain, by the fastest means, which was
to send a telegraph from New York... on overland
cables to St. John's, the easternmost point on
Newfoundland. The message was then picked up by
fast steamship and taken to the west of Ireland and
then it was telegraphed through to London. It lost a
great deal of its impact because it took so long for
the news to actually travel.
17. Based on this passage, we know that this event occurred
a. prior to the Civil War
b. prior to the Transatlantic Cable
c. after the telegraph
d. prior to the automobile

4. 18. Social Darwinism is a belief
a. that all classes of people should be treated equally
b. that all workers should be protected by the union
c. that those who work hardest will be the most successful
d. that the wealthy classes should contribute to charities
Study the passage below.
Andrew Carnegie (18351919) was a massively
successful business man - his wealth was
based on the provision of iron and steel to the
railways, but also a man who recalled his
radical roots in Scotland before his
immigration to the United States. He lived up
to his word, and gave away his fortune to
socially beneficial projects, most famously by
funding libraries. His approval of death taxes
might surprise modern billionaires!
19. Based on this passage, Andrew Carnegie most likely believed in
a. the creation of monopolies
b. the Gospel of Wealth
c. labor unions
d. “separate but equal” facilities for the classes
20. An example of a muckraker is
a. Horatio Alger
b. Teddy Roosevelt
c. John D. Rockefeller
d. Upton Sinclair
21. National parks were established during presidency of
a. Franklin D. Roosevelt
b. James Madison
c. Rutherford B. Hayes
d. Teddy Roosevelt
22. The building of schools in Alabama during the early 1900s was hindered by
a. the 1901 Constitution
b. a lack of railroad systems throughout the state
c. deteriorating roads
d. the long farming season

5. Below is an excerpt from a speech given by W.E.B DuBois. Use the message and your
own knowledge to answer number 23.
We want full manhood suffrage, and we want it now, henceforth
and forever.
Second. We want discrimination in public accommodation to cease.
Separation in railway and street cars, based simply on race and
color, is un-American, un-democratic, and silly. We protest against
all such discrimination.
Third. We claim the right of freemen to walk, talk, and be with
them that wish to be with us. No man has a right to choose another
man’s friends, and to attempt to do so is an impudent interference
with the most fundamental human privilege.
23. W.E.B Dubois MOST likely delivered this speech as part of the
a. Social Contract theory
b. Anti-trust laws
c. Niagara Movement
d. The Gospel of Wealth
24. Which Supreme Court decision is illustrated in this picture?
a. Dred Scott
b. Plessy v. Ferguson
c. Marbury v. Madison
d. Brown v. Board of Education

6. Use the chart below and your own knowledge to answer Number 9.
Legislation Year Provision
Passed
Interstate Commerce 1887 Regulated the rates railroads
Act could charge
Sherman Antitrust 1890 Banned monopolies that limited
Act competition
Clayton Antitrust Act 1914 Strengthened the Sherman
Antitrust Act by prohibiting some
actions that lessened
competition
Federal Trade 1914 Created a commission that
Commission Act enforced rules of fair trade and
fair business practices
25. As a result of the legislation shown on the chart, the United States government
a. reduced the number of consumer protection laws
b. became more involved in regulating business
c. bought and operated most large business
d. encouraged limits on the number of businesses in an industry