Progressive Era

Southern states restricted the voting rights of blacks by enacting

• literacy tests
• grandfather clause
• poll taxes
• all of the above

Growth of American industry is most closely associated with

• a large labor supply
• an abundance of natural resources
• construction of new railroads
• all of the above

Reporters, journalists, photographers, and authors who used the media to raise concerns about the negative effects of industrialization were known as

• muckrakers
• suffragists
• immigrants
• abolitionists

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This event was one major factor leading to the need for building codes and government regulation of businesses

• Haymarket Riot
• Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
• founding of the Tuskegee Institute
• attempted assassination of President Garfield

A period of time when social, economic and political problems caused by rapid industrialization were exposed and in some cases reformed

• Industrialization
• Progressive Era
• Reconstruction
• Prohibition

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Abolished slavery in the US

• 18th Amendment
• 21st Amendment
• 15th Amendment
• 13th Amendment

Amendment that gave women the right to vote

• 15th
• 17th
• 18th
• 19th

The Sherman anti-trust act was passed to

• break up monopolies
• give equal rights to women
• help people living in poverty
• end racism

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Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is credited with exposing the unsanitary conditions in the food industry and helping to pass the

• Sherman Anti-Trust Act
• 18th Amendment
• Pure Food and Drug Act
• Equal Rights Amendment

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The famous immigration center in NYC is

• Angel Island
• Ellis Island
• Coney Island
• Long Island