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CHAPTER 5 IN WHO BUILT AMERICA --

1. Women first won the right to vote in state and local elections: 

A) West of the Mississippi.  B) In the New England States.  C) In New York and Pennsylvania.  D) In Virginia and Maryland. 

2. The first woman elected to the U.S. Congress was: 

A) Clara Lemlich.  B) Lillian Wald.  C) Jeanette Rankin.  D) Ida Wells Barnett.  E) Margaret Sanger. 

3. Between 1900-1920, which region of the country was least likely to pass legislation regulating the labor of women and children?

A) New England.  B) South.  C) Midwest.  D) Far West.  E) New York and Pennsylvania. 

 4. Who was a leader of the “Uprising of the Twenty Thousand”? 

A) Clara Lemlich.  B) Lillian Wald.  C) Jeanette Rankin.  D) Ida Wells Barnett.  E) Margaret Sanger. 

5. Most of the 128 people who died in the 1911 Banner Coal Mine explosion were: 

A) Convicts.  B) Jewish immigrants.  C) Italian immigrants.  D) Young children.  E) Trade unionists. 

6. Who was a socialist candidate for president: 

A) Emma Goldman.  B) Bill Haywood.  C) Samuel Gompers.  D) Eugene Debs.  E) Jeanette Rankin. 

7. Whom did the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) seek to organize? 

A) African Americans.  B) Women.  C) Immigrants.  D) Unskilled workers.  E) All the above. 

8. Where did state militia massacre strikers in the Rockefeller-owned mines, Easter 1914? 

A) Triangle.  B) Banner (Birmingham).  C) Ludlow.  D)  Patterson.  E)  Lawrence. 

9. Who, of the following, advocated public ownership of utilities (e.g. Power companies, street car lines, etc.) 

A) Hazen Pingree.  B) Theodore Roosevelt.  C) Woodrow Wilson. D) William Howard Taft. 

10. The percentage of those eligible voting tended to be higher in: 

A) 1870s.  B) 1890s.  C) 1920. 

11. The federal employment rolls were highest in: 

A) 1881.  B) 1901.  C) 1911.  D) 1918. 

12. As president, Woodrow Wilson:

A) Integrated the federal civil service.  B) Extended and defended segregation in the federal civil service.  C) Appointed more African-Americans to federal positions than any other president.  D) Excluded all African Americans from the federal civil service. 

13. Under the “progressive” presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, the federal government: 

A) Sent federal troops to the South to halt lynchings.  B) Reduced lynching by half.  C) Encouraged lynchings.  D) Did virtually nothing to stop lynchings.

14.  Which of the following was a principle of progressive reform in the 1900-1920 period. 

A) Government should play an active role in regulating the economy and controlling monopolies.  B) Government should NOT play a role in regulating the economy.  C) Government should use the courts and the military to defend corporate interests.

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