US History Chapter 8

The term "muckraker was used in the early 1900s to describe?

• street sweepers

• investigative journalists

• farmers

• garden designers

Progressivism used the principles of science to solve problems resulting from

• industrialization and urbanization

• global warming and fossil fuel use

• the outbreak of war and proliferation of weapons

• epidemic diseases and plagues

Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle was instrumental in exposing which industry?

• steel

• meatpacking

• oil

• alcohol

Which of the following was NOT a major reform of the progressive era?

• Political Reform

• Economic Reform

• Social Reform

• Healthcare Reform

A large business that controls the entire industry and does not allow any competition

• monopoly

• suffrage

• prohibition

• square deal

The NAACP was established by who?

• Frederick Douglass

• Booker T Washington

• W.E.B. Du Bois

• Martin Luther King Jr.

What did Du Bois believe was essential to end racial violence?

• Establishment of African American colleges

• Higher-paying jobs for low-income citizens

• Voting rights for African Americans

• Private Schools for African American children

Suffrage was the...?

• right to vote

• right to run for public office

• right manufacture, sell and consume alcohol

• right for children to work as young as 12 years old

The idea that the United States was in competition with the other countries and only the fittest would survive

• Social Darwinism

• Manifest Destiny

• Square Deal

• Arbitration

Which was not a response to Upton Sinclair's novel "The Jungle"?

• Meat Inspection Act

• Pure Food and Drug Act

• Dr. W.H. Wiley issued many reports on "embalmed meat"

• Agriculture Department set standards for cleanliness