6 Weeks Test Review
To study for
The TEST next
WEDS
If you cannot find the answers in this
review or the Gilded Age Review or
the Progressive Era review, check
out the full length versions also on
my web page.
The graph below illustrates:
• The distribution of population
• Americans moved from farms to cities
between 1800 and 2000.
What actions did Jane Addams, Ida Tarbell,
and Booker T. Washington use to fight for
reform in the United States?
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Protests
Civil disobedience
Lobbying
Demonstrations
Signing petitions
All these were used to achieve their goals
Which group of women worked for the
passage of the Nineteenth
Amendment?
Susan B. Anthony
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Carrie Chapman Catt
My aspirations take a higher flight. Mine be it to
have contributed to the enlightenment and the
joys of the mind, to the things of the spirit, to all
that tends to bring into the lives of the toilers of
Pittsburgh sweetness and light. I hold this the
noblest possible use of wealth.
• This is a quote from Andrew Carnegie demonstrating
that he was not only a robber baron but also a
philanthropist.
... I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be
more generous and favorable to them than your
ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the
hands of the Husbands ... If particular care and attention
is not paid to the Ladies, we ... will not hold ourselves
bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or
Representation.
• This is part of a letter Abigail Addams wrote to her
husband John Addams speaking about the right for
women to vote, to have a political voice.
The Image below illustrates:
• Standard Oil Company
was allowed to
monopolize
• Laissez-faire allowed
companies to have too
much control
Electric power in the late 19th century
had the most dramatic effect on the
following innovations:
• Transportation
• Manufacturing methods
• American landscape
Why was the telephone considered one
of the most economically important
inventions of the nineteenth century?
• Created jobs
• Increased communication
• Increased business with other parts of the
world
All the following complete this graphic
organizer
• influencing
legislation
• methods to achieve
political goals
•Methods used by
women to win the
right to vote
All of the following were
significant events in the 1880s:
• Homesteaders made a mad rush for land in Oklahoma
• Rockefeller Oil firm becomes first “trust”
• Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn is a runaway hit
• A steel “skyscraper” rises over Chicago
• A bomb explodes at the Haymarket labor rally