Final Test

Teddy Roosevelt was the first progressive president and known for which areas of improvement?

• Control corporations, cooperate with women, consider national parks

• Control commerce, cookie manufacturing, control national forests

• Control citizens, control consumers, control national monuments

• Control corporations, consumer protection, conservation of lands

Supporters of women's suffrage also supported

• settlement houses

• an end to child labor

• higher wages and safer working conditions

• all of the above

Yellow Journalism was based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration

• True

• False

Teddy Roosevelt helped create what system in the US?

• railroad system

• national parks system

• interstate highway system

• reservation system

The Triangle Shirtwaist Company had locked doors on the factory floors, causing a great loss of lives of the workers in a fire.

• True

• False

The convention in 1848 to work for women's rights was called the Declaration of Sentiments.

• True

• False

Which amendment gave women the right to vote, 144 years after Abigail Adams said "Remember the Ladies"?

• 1st Amendment

• 10th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

Who was one of the main leaders of the Temperance movement?

• Betsy Ross

• Abigail Adams

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Carrie Nation

Journalists who wanted to report the truth about poor living conditions and immoral institutions and leaders were known as muckrakers.

• True

• False

After selling his company Andrew Carnegie used his wealth by

• donating to entrepreneurs

• developing department stores

• donating to Mrs. MW's baby shower fund

• donating to build libraries