United States World Power: Big Business and Progressives
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- Q1What encouraged the US to continue an open immigration policy so workforce would be cheap and plentiful?African AmericansProgressivesPresident LincolnBig Business30s
- Q2What two people developed business practices that allowed them to create monopolies?John Adams and Andrew CarnegieJohn D. Rockefeller and Henry FordAndrew Carnegie and John D. RockefellerHenry Ford and Abraham Lincoln30s
- Q3Who controlled the steel industry?Thomas EdisonHenry FordAndrew CarnegieJohn D. Rockefeller30s
- Q4What kept wages low and kept labor unions from being effective?monopoliesReformiststaxesProgressives30s
- Q5Why were farmers able to produce more crops?taxeslow pricesmass productionmechanization30s
- Q6Why did African American sharecroppers and tenant farmers leave for the cities in the Midwest and Northeast?to escape from slaveryTo go to collegeto escape Jim Crow lawsto join the army30s
- Q7Who advocated for the improvement of society through reform?ReformistsKu Klux KlanDemocratsProgressives30s
- Q8What were authors who wrote exposes about corporate power and unsafe working conditions called?bootleggersmuckrakersprogressivesrepublicans30s
- Q9Who used the term muckrakers?Teddy RooseveltAbraham LincolnAndrew JohnsonGeorge Washington30s
- Q10What law did congress pass declaring monopolies, or trusts in restraint of trade, to be unlawful?Truman Trust Act, 1890Sherman Anti-Trust Act, 1890Sherman Ford Act, 1980Ford Trust Act, 189030s
- Q11Who exposed the meat-packing trust?TrumanUpton SinclairIda TurbellRoosevelt30s
- Q12Who exposed the oil trust?Ida TarbellUpton SinclairThomas EdisonBush30s
- Q13Roosevelt began to break up trusts and was called the ?trust-busterThe trusted onedoor-busterHe who Trusts30s
- Q14What were President William Howard Taft, Roosevelt, and Woodrow Wilson called?The Greatest LeadersProgressive PresidentsThe Trust BustersThose who were left behind30s
- Q15Prohibition laws stopped the use of what?tobaccomoviescottonalcohol30s