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United States World Power: Big Business and Progressives

Quiz by Nicole Ritchie

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  • Q1
    What encouraged the US to continue an open immigration policy so workforce would be cheap and plentiful?
    African Americans
    Progressives
    President Lincoln
    Big Business
    30s
  • Q2
    What two people developed business practices that allowed them to create monopolies?
    John Adams and Andrew Carnegie
    John D. Rockefeller and Henry Ford
    Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller
    Henry Ford and Abraham Lincoln
    30s
  • Q3
    Who controlled the steel industry?
    Thomas Edison
    Henry Ford
    Andrew Carnegie
    John D. Rockefeller
    30s
  • Q4
    What kept wages low and kept labor unions from being effective?
    monopolies
    Reformists
    taxes
    Progressives
    30s
  • Q5
    Why were farmers able to produce more crops?
    taxes
    low prices
    mass production
    mechanization
    30s
  • Q6
    Why did African American sharecroppers and tenant farmers leave for the cities in the Midwest and Northeast?
    to escape from slavery
    To go to college
    to escape Jim Crow laws
    to join the army
    30s
  • Q7
    Who advocated for the improvement of society through reform?
    Reformists
    Ku Klux Klan
    Democrats
    Progressives
    30s
  • Q8
    What were authors who wrote exposes about corporate power and unsafe working conditions called?
    bootleggers
    muckrakers
    progressives
    republicans
    30s
  • Q9
    Who used the term muckrakers?
    Teddy Roosevelt
    Abraham Lincoln
    Andrew Johnson
    George Washington
    30s
  • Q10
    What law did congress pass declaring monopolies, or trusts in restraint of trade, to be unlawful?
    Truman Trust Act, 1890
    Sherman Anti-Trust Act, 1890
    Sherman Ford Act, 1980
    Ford Trust Act, 1890
    30s
  • Q11
    Who exposed the meat-packing trust?
    Truman
    Upton Sinclair
    Ida Turbell
    Roosevelt
    30s
  • Q12
    Who exposed the oil trust?
    Ida Tarbell
    Upton Sinclair
    Thomas Edison
    Bush
    30s
  • Q13
    Roosevelt began to break up trusts and was called the ?
    trust-buster
    The trusted one
    door-buster
    He who Trusts
    30s
  • Q14
    What were President William Howard Taft, Roosevelt, and Woodrow Wilson called?
    The Greatest Leaders
    Progressive Presidents
    The Trust Busters
    Those who were left behind
    30s
  • Q15
    Prohibition laws stopped the use of what?
    tobacco
    movies
    cotton
    alcohol
    30s

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