Unit 3 Review: Industrialization, Reform, and Imperialism

The work of muckraker Upton Sinclair led to which of the following?

• laws protecting the rights of consumers

• laws that helped African American rights

• laws that increased taxes on the rich

• laws that gave workers more rights

How did Thomas Edison’s inventions change daily life for Americans?

• led to longer working hours with better artificial light

• It allowed Americans to communicate quicker and easier of long distances

• It allowed Americans to travel long distances faster

• It made products safer and cleaner

Why did Theodore Roosevelt establish the Roosevelt Corollary?

• to guarantee the US right to intervene in Latin America

• to promote workers' rights in the US

• to expand the rights of African Americans under Jim Crow

• to increase taxes on monopolies

Which of the following were results of the Spanish-American War? Select TWO that apply.

• acquisition of Philippines

• Puerto Rico became an American territory

• America gain control of Spain

• acquisition of Costa Rico

• America lost territories in the Atlantic Ocean

What motivated the United States to gain control of the land it needed to build the Panama Canal?

• a need to speed up ships moving between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans

• America's war with Spain caused a need to have naval ships in Panama

• Panama bombed American naval ships in the Carribean

• America felt the need to acquire new territory during imperialism.

Where were many of the new immigrants of the late 1800’s moving when they arrived in the US?

• ethnic neighborhoods in large industrial cities

• mountainous areas where they could protect their cultures

• midwestern plains where land was cheap

• southern plantations where they could find jobs quickly and easily

Why did Chinese workers face discrimination from white Americans?

• resentment over the Chinese accepting lower wage jobs

• because America was at war with China

• because many Chinese were immigrating to the U.S. and taking over their neighborhoods

• Chinese workers were more skilled and received better wages for thier work.

What did President Theodore Roosevelt's conservation movement eventually lead to?

• expansion of national parks

• more environmental laws and regulations

• the Endangered Species list

• a movement to start recycling

What term describes a single company that controls virtually all production and distribution of a product?

• monopoly

• corporation

• joint-stock company

• big business

What actions did Progressive reformers take to empower regular citizens and voters? Select TWO that apply.

• allowing voters to remove elected officials from office

• direct voting on state or local laws

• funded citizen campaigns for public office

• added more polling locations making it easier to vote

• required candidates to have town hall meetings where voters could ask questions.