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Gilded Age and Progressive Era

Authored by Annie Williams

History

11th Grade

Gilded Age and Progressive Era
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

In the late 19th century, the ideas of Social Darwinism were used primarily to?

encourage the passage of mandatory public education

justify big business leaders exploiting factory workers

urge Congress to raise tariffs on imported goods

support the growth of new political parties

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

This was a movement led mostly by women to end the consumption of alcohol?

Direct Primary Movement

Temperance Movement

Suffrage Movement

Labor Union Movement

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Why are both Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony considered pioneers of the Women's Suffrage Movement?

Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote the Declaration of Sentiments

Susan B. Anthony voted illegally in an election In Rochester and was arrested

Both Stanton and Anthony organized the Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention

all of the above

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Women were granted the right to vote with the passage of which of the following?

21st amendment

19th amendment

Equal Voting Rights Act

Title 9

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which of the Progressive Era amendments provided for the direct election of US Senators?

16th amendment

18th amendment

17th amendment

19th amendment

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

The term "muckraker" was used during the Progressive Era to describe what?

dissatisfied factory workers who went on strike

Northerners who went South following the Civil War

women who supported the Prohibition Movement

investigative journalists who exposed problems in society and government

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

In passing the Sherman Antitrust Act (1890), Congress intended to?

prevent large corporations from forming monopolies and eliminating their competition

regulate rates charged by the railroad companies

prevent banks from foreclosing on farmers who could not pay their bank loans

force large trusts to bargain with labor unions

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