Big Business to 1920s Test

Jacob Riis, in How the Other Half Lives, and Ida B. Tarbell, in her articles about the Standard Oil Company, contributed to reform movements in the United States by:

• exposing poverty and corruption

• opposing westward expansion

• criticizing racial injustice

• supporting organization

Which president was known as a trustbuster?

• George Washington

• Calvin Coolidge

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Dwight Eisenhower

Lewis Hine, Ida B. Tarbell, and Jacob Riis were all known as:

• muckrakers

• suffragettes

• political leaders

• social reformers

Passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act illustrated the federal government’s commitment to:

• environmental conservation

• worker's rights

• consumer protection

• business competition

African American movement in the 20s to the north and the west was called ____________.

• Exit Plan

• Middle Passage

• The Great Migration

• Harlem Renaissance

Women’s style changed through the 20s, identify a radical fashion during this time period.

• Hippie

• Flapper

• gangster

• gypsy

What effect did the moving assembly line, introduced by Henry Ford, have on the automobile industry?

• It reduced profits.

• It made cars safer.

• It decreased the cost of production making it affordable for the middle class

• It increased the speed capacity of the engines.

Jacob Riis became famous for exposing the horrible conditions in New York City.

• sweatshops

• schools

• tenements

• factories

Progressives fought crime, disease, and poverty by:

• defending criminals, treating the sick, and providing food and shelter to the poor.

• addressing the economic conditions that were at the root of these problems.

• getting lawyers to fight legal battles on behalf of those who could not defend themselves.

• getting muckraking journalists to write about those who were experiencing hardship.

The Seventeenth Amendment allowed:

• Americans to vote directly for U.S. senators

• voters to recall unpopular senators by signing a petition to ask for a special vote.

• voters to propose that a state law become federal law by collecting signatures on a petition.

• Americans to vote using secret ballots designed by the government rather than political parties.