midterm review11th

These were journalists who wrote book and articles that exposed corruption in business and government:

• Progressives

• Muckrakers

• Sensationalists

• Investigative reporters

This U.S. president made significant contributions to breaking up big business during the Progressive Era:

• Howard Taft

• Woodrow Wilson

• William McKinley

• Theodore Roosevelt

People who were trying to get the 19th Amendment passed were supporting what?

• Right to vote for 18 year olds

• Right to vote for African Americans

• Right to vote for women

• Right to vote for those in prison

People like W.E.B. du Bois participated in the movement against what?

• Racism

• Women's suffrage

• Child Labor

• Prohibition

The system of sharecropping developed in the South after the Civil War because

• most formerly enslaved persons had no farming skills
• owners of large tracts of land faced labor shortages
• much farmland was ruined by the war

17th Amendment

• Women's Suffrage

• Direct Election of Senators

• Federal Income Tax

• Prohibition

16th Amendment

• Women's Suffrage

• Direct Election of Senators

• Federal Income Tax

• Prohibition

What woman was responsible for creating many settlement houses, most notably the Hull House?

• Carrie Nation

• Susan B. Anthony

• Jane Addams

• Ida Tarbell

Who was the Populist/Democratic candidate for President?

• Andrew Jackson

• Grover Cleveland

• William Jennings Bryan

• William McKinley

Why did the Populist party want unlimited coinage of silver?

• To increase the amount of money in circulation and raise farm prices

• To reduce economic inflation

• To raise campaign contribution limits

• To decrease the bargaining power of labor unions