Unit 6: Imperialism, Progressivism, and WWI Review US History

What did Upton Sinclair mean to reveal in his book The Jungle and what impact did he actually have?

• He meant to reveal the dangers of monopolies but instead impacted food sanitation laws

• He meant to reveal the dangerous working conditions of immigrants but instead impacted food sanitation laws

• He meant to reveal the living conditions of the urban poor but instead impacted the way that Senators were elected

• He meant to reveal the dangers of the lack of sanitation in the food industry but instead impacted the laws regarding child labor

How did Jane Addams and the Hull house change the United States for the better?

• She pushed the government to enact socialist policies

• She made it to where only American citizens could take advantage of Hull House services

• She used her platform to encourage immigrants to vote Democratic in the next election

• She educated poor immigrants, especially women and kids.

Ida Tarbell worked to expose the...

• Problems with corruption in the unions that protected labor practices

• Price gouging of railroads and train car companies

• Dangerous monopolies that were bad for the American consumer

• The dangerous working conditions of immigrant laborers

After the newspaper reporting on the explosion of the USS Maine, what was America's new relationship with Spain?

• America's view on war had shifted, leading to eventual involvement in WWI.

• America began to prepare for an invasion of mainland Spain in its first ever attack run.

• The Monroe Doctrine was adopted by the United States to make it so no European Powers could invade a nation in the Western Hemisphere

• The United States prepared for a war and many Americans supported it

This cartoon depicts Theodore Roosevelt leading America to do what?

• Fight the Spanish with the Rough Riders

• Annex the Philippines

• Obtain land and then build the Panama Canal

• Prevent European powers from intervening militarily in Latin America

How did the Roosevelt Corollary change the Monroe Doctrine?

• It encouraged missionaries to spread religion in Latin America

• It said it was now the policy of the United States to take colonies in the Western Hemisphere

• It encouraged the United States to build foreign alliances

• It allowed America to act as a police power in the Western Hemisphere should Europe try to take more colonies

Who most likely took this picture and what was their intention?

• Upton Sinclair and to show the misery of immigrants working in America

• Ida Tarbell and to show the impacts of monopolies on average Americans

• Theodore Roosevelt and to show how Americans need nature to thrive

• Jacob Riis and to show the poor living conditions in inner cities

How did the South resist the Reconstruction Amendments during the Progressive Era?

• The development of Jim Crow laws to restrict the rights of blacks

• The South threatened to secede again should they be forced to follow the amendments

• The South adopted new constitutions that did not include the Reconstruction Amendments

• The development of the NAACP to restrict the rights of blacks

Why was the Women's Rights Movements considered radical during the Progressive Era?

• It allied with the temperance movement and pushed for Prohibition

• It believed that women should be allowed to go to college

• It focused on creating an amendment to the Constitution giving women the right to vote

• It encouraged women to remain in the home and stay out of the workforce.

Governments at the local, state, and national level began to take action to reduce alcohol consumption due to the work of...

• The Women's Christian Temperance Union

• The Women's Rights Movement

• The NAACP

• The Settlement House Movement