Worker's compensation was designed to

provide income to workers who had been injured on jobs

What event started the reform movement for workers in the factories?

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire

Which author and which president are most responsible for the Pure Food and Drug Act?

Upton Sinclair and Theodore Roosevelt

The Progressive Era is a period characterized by

social and political reform led by average Americans

Bribes can be defined as -

money or advantage gained by dishonest means

In the Gilded Age, business leaders often influenced politics by

giving money to government officials

During the late 1800s Midwestern farmers found that earning a living was difficult because -

railroad companies charged high rates for transporting goods

A muckraker is a person who

uses investigative journalism to expose problems

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1
Susan B Anthony and Cady Stanton are often reformers who are associated with -
Salvation Army
Hull House
Red Cross
Women's Suffrage
2
Worker's compensation was designed to
provide training for illiterate workers
provided back pay to workers who had suffered discrimination
provide income to workers who had been injured on jobs
provide income to workers who were laid off from jobs
3
What event started the reform movement for workers in the factories?
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
The Pullman Strike
The Homestead Strike
The coal miner strike of 1909
4
Which author and which president are most responsible for the Pure Food and Drug Act?
Frank Norris and Woodrow Wilson
Theodore Dresser and William McKinley
John Spargo and William Taft
Upton Sinclair and Theodore Roosevelt
5
Ida B Wells is most well known for her effort to eliminate
segregation
large trusts
labor unions
lynching
6
Members of the Populist Party were mostly
former reformers
businessmen
industrialists
farmers
7
If a student got a petition to change the curfew law - what political reform would he/she use?
Recall
Initiative
Political lobbying
Referendum
8
What landmark SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the U.S.) decision resulted in "separate but equal"?
Muller v Oregon
Plessy v Ferguson
Loving v Virginia
Brown v Board of Education
9
The Progressive Era is a period characterized by
social reform led by big business and government
expansion into new territories
political reform led by former political machines
social and political reform led by average Americans
10
The 18th Amendment to the Constitution resulted in -
gave women the right to vote
creating the federal income tax
prohibited the sale of alcohol
limiting the president to two terms
11
The 14th Amendment is
Prohibition of Alcohol
Direct Election of Senators
Right for Women to Vote
Equal Protection under the law
12
The opportunity for citizens to vote on legislation is called a
initiative
amendment
referendum
recall
13
The 19th Amendment to the Constitution resulted in -
limiting the president to two terms
gave women the right to vote
prohibited the sale of alcohol
creating the federal income tax
14
At the turn of the century, most immigrants settled in cities because ...
labor unions prohibited them from settling anywhere else
immigrants were not permitted to buy farmland
that was a government requirement
that is where the jobs were
15
Bribes can be defined as -
A diagram that exhibits a relationship between numbers
money or advantage gained by dishonest means
A flat structure, typically made of logs, that floats
To help or furnish support for political reasons
16
Jim Crow laws -
improved working conditions in factories
made discrimination legal
made segregation illegal
discriminated against immigrants
17
Which group did not benefit from the Progressive Era?
women
immigrants
unions
children
18
In the Gilded Age, business leaders often influenced politics by
running for political office
importing more foreign goods
giving money to government officials
offering to pay higher taxes
19
During the late 1800s Midwestern farmers found that earning a living was difficult because -
agricultural output was declining
crop prices were increasing
farm workers joined unions
railroad companies charged high rates for transporting goods
20
William "Boss" Tweed's enemy was . . .
Jacob Coxey
Thomas Nast
James Blaine
Rutherford B. Hayes
21
The Gilded Age can best be described as a period of
high unemployment and low standards of living
corruption followed by reform
social and economic chaos
agricultural expansion and decline of industry
22
Carry Nation and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union lobbied for -
the end of child labor
suffrage for women
female membership in unions
the prohibition of alcohol
23
Boss Tweed's political machine was known as
The Graft Gang
Tweed's Tigers
Tammany Hall
Tweed's Toughs
24
The Sherman Anti Trust Act & the Clayton Anti Trust Act allowed for Monopolies & Trust to grow
False
True
25
The Populists believed that most of the economic problems could be solved by establishing
a better banking system
the silver standard
a renewed policy of open immigration
lower interest rates
26
A muckraker is a person who
helps farmers develope new methods
uses yellow journalism to promote literary works
uses investigative journalism to expose problems
assists immigrants in finding jobs and housing

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