US History Unit 5 - SSUSH 11-13

Muckrakers like Ida Tarbell hoped to

• oversee the Tennessee Valley Authority

• stop ratification of the 18th Amendment

• expose abuses in business and corruption in politics

• improved methods of mass production

What was the purpose behind the formation of the American Federation of Labor, led by Samuel Gompers, in 1881?

• to plan social gatherings for laborers

• to improve labor relations with management

• to create small unions specific to each trade

• to fight for better working conditions in America's industries

Chinese and Irish immigrants are remembered for

• their contributions to the steel industry

• their contributions to building the nation's railroads

• there refusal to work for giants of big business

• working together to found the nation's first trusts

Jane Addams established the Hull House in 1889. This and other settlement houses like it provided child are and medical services

• for families living on homestead land

• for the wives of wealthy robber barons

• for children living in poor urban areas

• for women waiting on government services

The construction of this federal project ended Manifest Destiny (WESTWARD EXPANSION) and connected east to the west coast.

• Panama Canal

• Golden Gate Bridge

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Transatlantic Telegraph

What role did Jane Addams play in the Progressive Era?

• She provided nursing care to tenement dwellers in New York City

• She helped lobby for the 17th Amendment

• She focused on the needs of poor people living in Chicago

• She formed the Women's Trade Union League (WTUL)

What was the significance of Teddy Roosevelt’s Conservation Movement?

• Preserve millions of acres of wilderness land such as the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone Park

• Decrease in taxes, increase in military spending, decrease in social programs

• Developed federal laws restricting immigrants from communist and socialist countries, Western Europe

• Creates the Environmental Protection Agency, conducts environmental research, and to assists state and local governments in the clean-up of polluted sites

How did inventions such as Thomas Edison's phonograph and electric light bulb change American life?

• They inspired such inventions as the John Deere plow

• They affected American leisure activities and industry

• They resulted in an expanded railroad network

• They encouraged the building of canals

The Seventeenth Amendment calls for the election of United Senators by

• the people

• state legislators

• only other senators

• registered progressives

In response to the growth in the railroad industry, large steel mills were built in Pennsylvania and Ohio during the 1870s. Growth in the railroad and steel industries led to the development of

• gold mines in California

• the cotton industry

• monopolies and trusts

• western ghost towns