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