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Question #1
One map projection that gets the shapes wrong but gets the sizes right is the:
A.
Ong Projection
B.
Mercator Projection
C.
Standard Projection
D.
Peter's Projection
Question #2
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 Transcendental Two-Step
C.
The Enlightenment
D.
The New Republic
Question #3
The revolutionary pamphlet Common Sense was written by:
A.
Thomas Jefferson
B.
Patrick Henry
C.
Abraham Lincoln
D.
Thomas Paine
Question #4
Two laws passes during the John Adams Administration that made it illegal to denigrate the government were the:
A.
Bill of Rights
B.
Alien and Sedition Acts
C.
14th and 15th Amendments
D.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Question #5
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.
Deconstruction
C.
Ante-Bellum World
D.
Progressive Era
Question #6
The amendment to the Constitution that freed the slaves was the:
A.
14th Amendment
B.
15th Amendment
C.
13th Amendment
D.
21st Amendment
Question #7
This was the term used to describe segregationist laws in the South>
A.
Radical Republican Laws
B.
Scalawag Laws
C.
Jim Crow Laws
D.
Nathan Forrest Laws
Question #8
This was the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms.
A.
James Garfield
B.
Grover Cleveland
C.
Franklin Roosevelt
D.
Chester Arthur
Question #9
This law established the federal civil service system:
A.
Sedition Act
B.
Dawes Act
C.
Pendleton Act
D.
Harris Act
Question #10
The most powerful banker in the U.S. during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era was:
A.
J.P. Morgan
B.
Cornelius Vanderbilt
C.
Alexander Hamilton
D.
Arthur Greenspan
Question #11
Terence Powderly led this labor union that accepted any worker:
A.
Teamsters
B.
Knights of Labor
C.
ILGWU
D.
AF of L
Question #12
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 #13
The American Railway Union at the time of the Pullman Strike was headed future presidential candidate:
A.
Samuel Gompers
B.
Eugene Debs
C.
Charles Evans Hughes
D.
William Jennings Bryan
Question #14
This late nineteenth century author and social critic published a photo essay called How the Other Half Lives.
A.
Henry George
B.
Allen Eastman
C.
Jacob Riis
D.
Matthew Brady
Question #15
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 #16
Charles Sander Peirce and William James proposed a new philosophical trend know as:
A.
Postmodernism
B.
Trascendentalism
C.
Pragmatism
D.
Fascism
Question #17
The Open Door Policy was meant to open markets to the United States in:
A.
Latin America
B.
Europe
C.
China
D.
The Philippines
Question #18
J.P. Morgan merged his own holdings with Carnegie's to form
A.
Standard Oil
B.
U.S. Steel
C.
American Arms, Inc.
D.
Chase Manhattan Bank
Question #19
This Supreme Court case confirmed the legitimacy of the 8 hour day for women:
A.
Paul v. Tillich
B.
Lockner v. New York
C.
Stanton v. Flynn
D.
Muller v. Oregon
Question #20
Chinese farmers and students fought against European and American imperialism in the:
A.
Taiping Rebellion
B.
Falun Gong Rebellion
C.
Boxer Rebellion
D.
Moro Rebellion
Question #21
Theodore Roosevelt created a new country in order to enhance U.S. trade with this building project:
A.
Panama Canal
B.
Great White Fleet
C.
Pan American Highway
D.
Silk Road
Question #22
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 #23
This Amendment created an Income Tax:
A.
16th Amendment
B.
15th Amendment
C.
24th Amendment
D.
19th Amendment
Question #24
These WWI era laws made it a violation to speak against American involvement in the war:
A.
Suppression and Rendition Acts
B.
Alien and Sedition ACts
C.
Espionage and Sedition Acts
D.
Patriot Acts
Question #25
This post-WWI agreement reshaped the map of the world and imposed reparations payments on Germany:
A.
Kellogg-Briand Pact
B.
Nazi Soviet Pact
C.
Mein Kampf
D.
Treaty of Versailles
Question #26
This Amendment allowed women to vote in federal elections:
A.
17th Amendment
B.
15th Amendment
C.
18th Amendment
D.
19th Amendment
Question #27
Theodore Roosevelt ran on this party ticket in 1912:
A.
Democratic Party
B.
Republican Party
C.
Populist Party
D.
Progressive Party
Question #28
This 1911 tragedy led to industrial safety laws:
A.
Ludlow Massacre
B.
Sinking of the Titanic
C.
1906 San Francisco Earthquake
D.
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
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