Multiple Choice
Identify the
choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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What led to public pressure to change working conditions and especially
safety?
a. | Sinking of the USS Maine | c. | Spanish-Americxan
War | b. | Triangle Shirtwaist tragedy | d. | Wounded Knee |
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The title of Upton Sinclair’s novel that shocked people with the horrors
of the meatpacking industry?
a. | Uncle Tom’s Cabin | c. | The
Jungle | b. | Slaughterhouse Five | d. | Charlotte’s Web |
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Who passed laws requiring food & medicine to be accurately labeled during
the Progressive Era?
a. | Congress | c. | The President | b. | The Senate | d. | The Supreme
Court |
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The Progressive Movement focused on...
a. | creating economic reforms | c. | protecting social
welfare | b. | fostering efficiency in the workplace | d. | all of these |
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Progressive Era journalists who exposed corruption & other evils...
a. | muckrakers | c. | trustbusters | b. | injunctions | d. | union bosses |
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Whose goals were to break up business monopolies & restore
competition?
a. | muckrakers | c. | union bosses | b. | trustbusters | d. | injunctions |
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Workers organized unions in order to...
a. | acquire better wages & benefits | c. | acquire better benefits &
working conditions | b. | break up businesses | d. | aquire better wages, benefits, & working
conditions |
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Who worked for women’s right to vote?
a. | suffragists | c. | trustbusters | b. | unions | d. | abolitionists |
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What amendment granted women the right to vote in the United States?
a. | 17th Amendment | c. | 19th Amendment | b. | 18th Amendment | d. | 20th Amendment |
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What state was the first to grant women the right to vote?
a. | Wyoming | c. | Utah | b. | Idaho | d. | Colorado |
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Who worked to improve the environment?
a. | suffragists | c. | trustbusters | b. | conservationists | d. | unions |
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What was established as the first national park in the U.S.?
a. | Yellowstone | c. | Devil’s Tower | b. | Grand Teton | d. | Yosemite |
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A country occupying another country to obtain resources and new
markets...
a. | democracy | c. | imperialism | b. | capitalism | d. | communism |
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The United States became an imperialistic power with its involvement in what
war?
a. | Spanish-American War | c. | War of 1812 | b. | Civil War | d. | Mexican-American
War |
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The Panama Canal made America a __________ in Latin America.
a. | political weakling | c. | nation | b. | political force | d. | country |
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