SS Final Exam Review

Which long-awaited goal of the women’s rights movement was achieved during the Progressive Era?

•    the right to vote
•   the right to own property
•    equal pay for equal work
• equal access to employment and education

 The actions of muckrakers in the late 19th century and early 20th century resulted in

• Supreme Court decisions that expanded the right to vote
• government regulation of unfair business practices
• increases in the power of monopolies
• reduction of the president’s power to manage the economy

Writers that dig up the bad things going on in society

• Suffragists
• Muckrakers
• Students
• Chaffinators

Made it illegal to create trusts and monopolies

• Sherman Antitrust Act
• Sherman Antimonopoly Act
• Sherman Shortly Act
• Sherman No Business Act

Which act was rushed to Congress and passed shortly after the publication of Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle in 1906? 

• Federal Reserve Act
• Clayton Antitrust Act
• Australian Ballot Act
• Meat Inspection Act

Which of the following does not connect to the term, monopoly

• controls the price of a product
• does not need to create new products
• consumers do not have a choice
• competition between businesses

Which of the following is an example of a push factor?

• economic opportunities
• economic troubles
• land
• religious freedom

Which of the following is an example of a pull factor?

• unemployment
• civil war
• poverty
• job opportunities

Discrimination against immigrants or the belief that immigration to the U.S. should be limited 

• nativism
• philanthropy
• assimilation
• monopoly

The process of becoming part of another culture, or adapting to a new way of life is called

• nativism
• philanthropy
• assimilation
• monopoly