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- 1. Multiple Choice
The muckrakers provided a service to the public in the early 20th century by
advocating a strong military
exposing abuses in business and government
calling for a stronger use of executive power to strengthen civil rights laws
arousing states to resist federal authority
- 2. Multiple Choice
The writings of muckrakers of the late 19th century had the most direct impact on
efforts to increase public education in the South
the struggle for women's rights
reform in the area of factory working conditions
elimination of segregation in the South
- 3. Multiple Choice
A major goal of the Progressive movement was to
increase the influence of corporations on government
reduce the surpluses produced by farmers
encourage the growth of labor unions
eliminate unfair business practices
- 4. Multiple Choice
Jane Addams, Lillian Wald, and Jacob Riis are best known as
social reformers
leaders of industry
congressional leaders
inventors
- 5. Multiple Choice
Which helped to bring about the enactment of Federal meat inspection laws in the Progressive Era?
a decline in farm exports
economic demands of the cattlemen
writings of the muckrakers
the unhealthy condition of newly arrived immigrants
- 6. Multiple Choice
During the Progressive Era, the muckrakers were most effective in reaching the public through their
novels and articles in the popular press
leadership roles in powerful corporations
congressional proposals
participation in political campaigns
- 7. Multiple Choice
A goal of both the Populists and the Progressives was to
repeal Jim Crow laws and achieve racial equality
guarantee labor's right to collective bargaining
reduce the power of big business over the economy
achieve withdrawal of Federal troops from the former Confederate States
- 8. Multiple Choice
The primary stimulus to social and economic reforms during the Progressive Era came from
the Supreme Court
authors and social activists
the leadership of the two national parties
bankers and industrialists
- 9. Multiple Choice
With which statement would the muckrakers most likely have agreed?
Government has a responsibility to protect corporations from foreign competition.
The results of governmental decision making are more important than how those results were achieved.
The media has no business prying into the private life of a Presidential candidate.
Honesty and ethics in government must be demanded by the people.
- 10. Multiple Choice
Jacob Riis' photographs and the Settlement House movement led by Jane Addams drew attention to the needs of the
freedmen immediately after the Civil War
farmers in the 1880s and 1890s
urban poor in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
Japanese and Chinese laborers in the late 1800s
- 11. Multiple Choice
Cartoons by Thomas Nast were to urban political machines as The Jungle by Upton Sinclair was to
railroad monopolies
the meatpacking industry
lumber and logging companies
public utilities
- 12. Multiple Choice
The Progressive movement was mainly a response to the
need to improve race relations in the United States
pressures the United States experienced as a result of becoming a world power
industrialization and urbanization of the United States
demands of the post-Civil War Southern leaders for social change
- 13. Multiple Choice
The primary contribution of the muckrakers in the late 1800s and early 1900s was to
promote the ideals of rugged individualism and laissez faire
lobby the Federal Government to open more free land to western settlement
expose corruption and negligence on the part of big business and government
encourage public support for the building of the Panama Canal
- 14. Multiple Choice
The writers Lincoln Steffens and Upton Sinclair were referred to as “muckrakers” because they
supported the growth of large corporations
aroused citizens to seek social changes
wrote articles supporting the imperialistic ambition of the United States
led national movements to protest women's rights
- 15. Multiple Choice
Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair, and Frank Norris all shared a belief that
monopolies were necessary for business to survive
reform was needed to control the abuses of business
the government should follow a laissez-faire policy
the public was unlikely to respond to calls for reform
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