Progressive Era and Imperialism

Which of the following was NOT a US territorial acquisition prior to 1877?

• Louisiana Purchase

• Northwest Territory

• Florida

• Hawaii

Three significant problems caused by America's industrial revolution between 1895 and 1930 include

• child labor, political corruption, and urban pollution

• economic depression, higher prices for consumer goods, and immigration

• nationalism, nativism, and prohibition

• suffrage, rising nationalism, and globalization

Which of the following best describes why Upton Sinclair and Ida Tarbell are both considered Progressive muckrakers?

• Both were elected to prominent political positions from which they were able to enact laws to combat racism in the US

• Both investigated corruption and used their writing skills to publish information that provided the public with insight into problems that our political system needed to address

• Both were prosecuted for failing to comply with governmental regulations that had been established to protect the public

• All of the above

The 19th Amendment dealt with

• direct election of US Senators

• women's suffrage

• prohibition

• lowering the voting age to 18

Who wrote the expose piece of literature that revealed the extensive corrupt monopolistic business practices of Standard Oil?

• Ida Tarbell
• Lewis Hines 
• Jacob Riis
• Upton Sinclair

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Whose book led to the direct passage of the Meat Inspection Act and indirect of the Pure Food and Drug Acts?

• Jacob Riis
• Lewis Hines
• Ida Tarbell
• Upton Sinclair

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Whose book caused the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act to be passed?

• Upton Sinclair
• Lincoln Steffens
• Ida Tarbell
• Jacob Riis

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 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

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Writers that dig up the bad things going on in society

• Suffragists
• Muckrakers
• Students
• Chaffinators

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To preserve water, trees, plants, and other natural resources

• Precipitation
• Confurion
• Conservation
• Infusion