Progressive Era EOC Review

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Which reason contributed to the trend shown in this table? Options: The number of factories using assembly lines decreased, A progressive movement worked to stop the use of child labor, A political movement worked to lower taxes for businesses, The number of people joining labor unions decreased

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A progressive movement worked to stop the use of child labor

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What was the immediate response to the practices mentioned in this excerpt? There was never the least attention paid to what was cut up for sausage; there would come all the way back from Europe old sausage that had been rejected, and that was mouldy and white—it would be dosed with borax and glycerine, and dumped into the hoppers, and made over again for home consumption. —Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, 1906

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Congress passed legislation to protect consumer health and safety

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What was the impact of muckraking activities during the early 1900s?

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Public reaction to their books led to new laws addressing the abuses of industrialization

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Which characteristic was shared by all five reforms: initiative, referendum, recall, direct primary, 17th Amendment?

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they gave citizens a greater voice in government

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This U.S. president made significant contributions to breaking up big business (trustbusting) during the Progressive Era:
Options: William McKinley, Howard Taft, Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson

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Teddy Roosevelt

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People who were trying to get the 19th Amendment passed were supporting what?

• Right to vote for 18 year olds
• Right to vote for women
• Right to vote for African Americans
• Right to vote for those in prison

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Right to vote for women

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What does a referendum give voters the right to do?

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to approve or reject a law

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The common purpose of the legislative acts were to

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promote the general welfare of the American public

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The cartoon illustrates President Theodore Roosevelt’s attempt to

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limit the power of monopolies

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The Square Deal that President Roosevelt describes insured that small business owners would

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be given fair opportunities to compete