Progressive Era, Industrialization & Immigration Test

What was the purpose of President Theodore Roosevelt’s conservation policies?

• To ban alcohol throughout the U.S.

• Unlimited access to natural resources is the key to business growth.

• To protect natural resources and the wilderness for public use.

• To break up bad monopolies

In the 20th century, muckrakers were able to expose corruption in the U.S. by

• frequent acts of protest

• lobbying the government

• publishing and creating articles, cartoons and books

• control over factories

Which event is proof that Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle had an important impact on the United States?

• adoption of reforms in public education

• passage of legislation limiting immigration

• adoption of the 18th amendment establishing Prohibition

• passage of the Federal Meat Inspection Act

What was the purpose of the Women’s Suffrage Amendment?

• To ensure that women remained 2^nd class citizens

• It outlawed little girls from working in factories

• Ensured that women could vote and have a voice in government

• It ensured equal pay of men and women

During which period in United States history were the amendments concerning the income tax, direct election of Senators. Prohibition, and women’s suffrage enacted?

• Reconstruction

• The Gilded Age

• Progressive Era

• New Deal

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

• right to vote

• right to own property

• equal pay for equal work

• equal access to employment and education

What role did Thomas Nast, Ida Tarbell, and Jacob Riis play during the Progressive Era?

• They increased big business’ power in the Senate

• They showed the benefits of having child work in factories

• They showed the benefits of having a laissez-faire government

• They exposed problems and corruption that existed in America as muckrakers

A major goal of the Sherman Anti-Trust Acts was to

• end business monopolies

• limit imports from foreign nations

• set fair prices for manufactured goods

• protect consumers from dangerous products

The Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 is significant in US history because it

• Supported the Missouri Compromise

• Was the first national labor union meeting

• Provided the US with new western territory

• Was an important step in women’s rights

In How the Other Half Lives, Jacob Riis described the living conditions of

• Immigrant workers in poor city neighborhoods

• African Americans in the segregated South

• The poor working conditions in factories

• Native American Indians on reservations