WorksheetsCh 15 Test Pt 1
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 21mins
How did the 17th amendment change how senators were elected?
They were given lifetime terms
The president nominated them
Through direct election.
By allowing only politicians to vote
What is arbitration?
Monopolistic business practices
Settling a dispute by accepting the decision of an impartial outsider
A way for businesses to get more tax breaks
The rules that congress said businesses had to operate within
What was Upton Sinclair's book called?
The Slaughterhouses
McDonald's Big Secret
Tell All Tale
The Jungle
What is a trust-buster?
Someone who supports trusts
Someone who seeks to break up trusts
A business owner
Lobbyists
What did the 16th Amendment do?
Allowed for taxes on all income
Changed taxes to fall on someone else
Changed taxes to only pertain to property
Made taxes heavier on the working class
Roosevelt believed in the efficiency of trusts unless they created
(a)
A tax imposed directly on a person or their property
(a)
Two laws, the Meat Inspection Act and the (a) were passed on the same day in 1906 to protect consumers
What government and social reforms did progressives achieve in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
What ways did suffrage groups hope to achieve their goals?
What limits were placed on child labor?
Who were the progressives?
Through what ways did the progressives believe they could improve society?
