What was a problem with urbanization?

Too many people, not enough housing

How did muckrakers help make changes happen?

Wrote books exposing corruption in business

What new laws were passed because of pictures like this?

Limited the employment of children

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1
Corruption was a big problem with which one of these groups?
Political machines
Child labor
Settlement houses
U.S. military
2
Why did people immigrate to the United States?
Escape from bad governments
All of the above
Adventure
Religious freedom
3
Crime, low paying jobs, and overcrowding were all problems where?
Urban areas
Life in the west
Rural areas
Life in the Suburbs
4
What was a problem with urbanization?
Slower technology
Too many products were made
Too many people, not enough housing
Starvation
5
What problem does this picture show?
Long Working Hours
Suffrage Rights
Child Labor
Collective Bargaining
6
How did muckrakers help make changes happen?
Sued businesses for violating employee rights
Wrote books exposing corruption in business
Passed laws improving health standards
Organized strikes that hurt businesses
7
Why did cities grow so fast in the late 1880s?
New jobs
Businesses were small
Farming became more popular
The telephone was invented
8
What new laws were passed because of pictures like this?
Reformed educational policies
Increased working hours
Refused employment of immigrants
Limited the employment of children
9
"Eight hours for work, eight hours for rest, eight hours for what we will" means...
Higher wages
Safer factories
Shorter workdays
Fewer work holidays
10
How did labor unions get better working conditions?
Protests and strikes
Children
Scabs and strikebreakers
Ads on the radio
11
Jane Addams is known for...
Political machines
Large corporations
Labor unions
Settlement houses
12
Settlement houses were created to help...
Urban employment
Educational opportunities
Government regulation
Immigrant population

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