Domain 3: Business, Progressives, Imperialism

A single company that controls virtually all of the production and distribution of a product is called what?

• jenga

• assembly line

• monopoly

• horizontal integration

How did the Muckrakers impact society

• Journalists who brought attention to the social and political problems of the early 1900's

• Wrote a book on the contaminated meat being produced in Chicago

• Published pictures of how the poor in America's cities lived

• Attacked Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company for unjust business practices

What were the Jim Crow Laws?

• Made it a crime to communicate any information that would interfere with US military operations or aid its enemies

• Laws that ensured African Americans were treated more equally, especially in the south

• Overturned Plessy vs Ferguson, and ordered the desegregation of public schools

• Segregation laws that required separate public and private facilities for African Americans

What was the significance of Plessy vs Ferguson?

• US Supreme Court case that upheld the constitutionality of Jim Crow Laws, and created "Separate but Equal" Doctrine

• US Supreme Court case that ruled "Separate but Equal" was unconstitutional

• Segregation laws that required separate public and private facilities for African Americans

• US Supreme Court case that increased citizen's voting rights, improved labor laws, and developed the conservation movement

What was the purpose of the NAACP?

• Journalists who brought attention to the social and political problems of the early 1900's

• A secret organization devoted to the abolition of slavery in the US

• A political group that fought for the full social and economic equality for African Americans

• A political group that helped African Americans transition from slavery to freedom after the Civil War

What was the significance of the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine?

• Washington warns Americans about the dangers of political factions and interfering with foreign countries

• The US stated it was willing to use force to prevent European intervention in the Western Hemisphere

• The US stated that it would protect South America from European recolonization, but would not interfere in the countries themselves

• The US took the side of Europe and helped them recolonize South America with military support

How did Upton Sinclair’s book The Jungle address social issues important to the Progressive Movement?

• It pointed out that women weren’t being treated like humans when denied suffrage.
• It showed how lax regulations in the food industry endangered public health.
• It explained why national forests and wildlife needed to be preserved.
• It gave a realistic portrayal of racial tension in the Southern states.

The Roosevelt Corollary was an add on to this foreign policy?

• Monroe Doctrine
• the Missouri Compromise
• the Roosevelt doctrine
• the Mckinley act

What industry became prominent in the 1800s'-early 1900s' that relied heavily on steel production?

• Oil industry
• steam industry
• gas industry
• railroad industry

Ida Tarbell's book, the History of the Standard Oil Company, helped take down which robber baron's company?

• Carnegie
• Rockefeller
• Vanderbilt
• Morgan