Unit 5 Gilded Age and Progressive Era

Information in the cartoon below most clearly supports the conclusion that by 1914

• (1) states along the East Coast had granted full voting rights to women

• (2) women could vote only in state elections

• (3) most states had approved at least some voting rights for women

• (4) complete national suffrage for women had been achieved

In the second half of the 1800s, which development led to the other three?

• (1) expansion of political machines

• (2) growth of American cities

• (3) development of tenement housing

• (4) increase in crime

Many of the business trusts created in the late 1800s were eventually declared illegal primarily because they

• (1) eliminated competition by forming monopolies

• (2) combined companies that manufactured different products

• (3) donated large sums of money to political candidates

• (4) allowed children to work under unsafe conditions

In the late 19th century, the ideas of Social Darwinism were used primarily to

• (1) encourage the passage of compulsory education laws

• (2) explain the differences in income between the rich and the poor

• (3) urge Congress to end immigration

• (4) support the growth of new political parties

During the late 1800s, many United States farmers believed their economic problems would be solved if the federal government would

• (1) raise interest rates

• (2) outlaw strikes by labor unions

• (3) put more money into circulation

• (4) regulate the amount of grain that was produced

Following Reconstruction, the passage of Jim Crow laws in the South limited the effectiveness of

• (1) the 14th and 15th amendments

• (2) the Freedmen’s Bureau

• (3) Black Codes

• (4) tenant farming and sharecropping

Which statement best expresses a common belief among nativists in the late 1800s and early 1900s?

• (1) “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses.”

• (2) “The streets are paved with gold.”

• (3) “All immigrants strengthen America.”

• (4) “America is for Americans.”

The term muckraker was used during the Progressive Era to describe

• (1) dissatisfied workers who went on strike

• (2) Northerners who went South following the Civil War

• (3) investigative journalists who exposed societal problems

• (4) women who supported the Prohibition movement

Congress passed the Interstate Commerce Act (1887) and the Sherman Antitrust Act (1890) in response to

• (1) foreign influences on the United States economy

• (2) public demand for better roads

• (3) monopolistic practices that were harmful to small businesses

• (4) the failure of federal banks to provide loans to individuals

The Federal Reserve System was created in 1913 to

• (1) authorize Congress to set interest rates

• (2) regulate the nation’s money supply

• (3) allow the government to own the nation’s banks

• (4) take over the responsibility of printing money