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