Grade 8 Mid-Year Review

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

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

Prohibition began with the 

• 15th Amendment
• 17th Amendment
• 18th Amendment
• 21st Amendment

Suffragists included

• Alice Paul
• Susan B Anthony
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• All of the above

Amendment that gave women the right to vote

• 15th
• 17th
• 18th
• 19th

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

Who wrote about and exposed the corrupt monopolistic business practices of Standard Oil?

• Ida Tarbell
• Lewis Hines 
• Jacob Riis
• Upton Sinclair

When was the Progressive Era?

• Antebellum
• 1865-1877
• 1900-1920
• 1933-1945

What anti monopoly law made all"combinations, contracts, and conspiracies" that restrained free trade illegal (1890)?

• Interstate Commerce Act
• Sherman Antitrust Act
• Clayton Antitrust Act
• Keller-Cefauver Act