History T3 Exam

Question 1

Who was Matthew Brady?

Answer 1

A photographer who photographed different aspects of the Civil War

Question 2

Who was Frederick Douglass?

Answer 2

Someone who escaped from slavery and was a big abolitionist. He also shared his story about his experience with other people.

Question 3

Who was Harriet Tubman?

Answer 3

The “conductor” of the “Underground Railroad” which helped many slaves escape through different planned routes.

Question 4

Who was W.E.B. DuBois

Answer 4

An African American leader who helped found the NAACP

Question 5

Who was Thomas Alva Edison?

Answer 5

An inventor who used to be known as the “Wizard of Menlo park” and helped create the incandescent lightbulb.

Question 6

Who were Muckrakers?

Answer 6

Journalists who expose things happening in both business and politics

Question 7

Who was Emma Lazarus?

Answer 7

A poet who wrote a poem on the Statue of Liberty that referred to immigrants who were coming to America.

Question 8

Who was Jacob Riis?

Answer 8

A photographer who also wrote “How the Other Half Lives” to show bad living conditions.

Question 9

Who was Ida Tarbell?

Answer 9

She helped to break the monopoly of Standard Oil and her father committed suicide after being run out of business by them.

Question 10

What was Fort Sumter?

Answer 10

The first battle of the Civil War where the North maintained control over Fort Sumter

Question 11

West Virginia

Answer 11

A government created from the split of counties from Virginia.

Question 12

Appomattox Courthouse

Answer 12

The place where Lee signed to surrender which allowed the South to keep their horses and guns after the Civil War ended

Question 13

Ellis island

Answer 13

Where many immigrants entered America in New York

Question 14

Hull House

Answer 14

A settlement house founded by Jane Addams in Chicago which helped new freedmen get help.

Question 15

Emancipation Proclamation?

Answer 15

Freed slaves who were part of the Confederacy only

Question 16

13th Amendment

Answer 16

Slavery is illegal

Question 17

14th Amendment

Answer 17

African Americans have equal protection with the law and have citizenship

Question 18

15th Amendment

Answer 18

African Americans can vote

Question 19

19th Amendment

Answer 19

Where women earned the right to vote in 1919 because of the suffragettes

Question 20

Chinese Exclusion Act

Answer 20

Prevented Chinese immigrants from gaining citizenship and any rights in the U.S.

Question 21

Meat Inspection Act

Answer 21

The law that addressed the bad conditions in the meat packing industry

Question 22

Jim Crow Laws

Answer 22

Laws created by Southern states to segregate public areas

Question 23

Capitalism

Answer 23

A system where businesses run most industries and determine how much workers are paid.

Question 24

Monopoly

Answer 24

When an entire industry is dominated by one company

Question 25

“How the Other Half Lives”

Answer 25

A book that helped raise awareness about the bad living conditions of the poor in NYC.

Question 26

Literacy tests and Poll Taxes

Answer 26

Created to prevent African-Americans from voting

Question 27

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Investigation

Answer 27

A factory fire which helped portray the poor working conditions and dangers.

Question 28

Standard Oil’s Monopoly

Answer 28

A company that controlled almost all oil business in the U.S. that had too much power from its monopoly

Question 29

Square Deal

Answer 29

President Roosevelt’s efforts to balance the needs of businesses, consumers, and laborers.

Question 30

54th Massachusetts Regiment

Answer 30

The first black regiment in the United States Army

Question 31

Progressives

Answer 31

A group who sought limits on corporate power, more efficient social institutions, and greater social justice.