Column 1
America Comes of Age (1890–1920)
What was a primary focus of the Urban League?
C. It helped poorer African Americans find work and provided other relief efforts.
The most likely reason this cartoon shows Progressives as “crusaders” is:
B. Muckrakers are being compared to crusaders in pursuit of their causes
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California laws especially threatened Japanese immigrant farmers by:
B. California laws restricted their right to own land
What problem did the muckraker Upton Sinclair seek to expose in The Jungle?
B. poor working conditions in the meatpacking industry
What was one strategy used by the National Woman’s Party in the fight for women’s suffrage? C. picketing outside the White House
What happened to Cuba and Puerto Rico after the Spanish-American War?
A. Cuba became independent, and Puerto Rico came under U.S. control.
In the 1912 presidential race, Theodore Roosevelt ran as the candidate of the
C. Progressive Party.
Why did the year 1898 represent a turning point in U.S. history?
B. The United States gained new territories and became an imperial power.
The Women’s Christian Temperance Union sough
A. a ban on alcohol.
President Theodore Roosevelt believed that forests should be
C. conserved for public use.
Which of these events in Hawaii’s history occurred last?
A. American planters overthrew Queen Liliuokalani.
The political reform allowing voters to approve or reject laws is the
B. referendum.
Which is the correct sequence of events in the Spanish-American War? A. battleship Maine explodes; U.S. victory in the Philippines; Treaty of Paris
Industry and Immigration (1865–1914)
In the late 1800s, the Bessemer process was crucial in the development of
B. skyscrapers.
One in five children worked in a factory in the late 1800s. What can best be inferred from this fact?
C. Some children were not required to attend schools
The labor union Knights of Labor was formed with the goal of
A. broad social reform for workers.
Which of the following happened to the labor movement following the strikes in the late 1800s?
B. Employers often went to court to stop union actions.
How did the “new” immigrants of the late 1800s differ from earlier immigrants to the United States?
B. “New” immigrants often came from southern and eastern Europe, but earlier immigrants came from northern and western Europe.
Most immigrants who entered the United States through Angel Island in San Francisco Bay were from
B. China.
How did many large cities in the late 1800s deal with crime?
A. Many uniformed police officers were put on patrol in neighborhoods
John Wanamaker changed consumer culture by
B. opening the first department store.
What business practice did the Sherman Antitrust Act combat?
B. the creation of organizations that ran multiple corporations.
Which immigrant to the United States played an influential role in union rights in the 1800s?
B. Mary Harris Jones.
One reason for urban growth between 1860 and 1900 was that
C. many factory jobs were located near transportation routes.
Streetcars powered by electricity improved city life because they
B. were quiet and clean.
Why did industry develop more slowly in the South than in the North?
The South lacked capital.
What were the “push” and “pull” factors that led people to immigrate to the United States?
The “push” factors that drove immigrants to leave their homes included political instability, religious persecution, and economic hardship.
The “pull” factors that brought them to the United States included job opportunities, political and religious freedom, and the promise of a better life.
How did the Chinese Exclusion Act affect the economy in the 1880s?
In states such as California, where Chinese immigrants formed a major part of the labor force, the sudden lack of inexpensive labor led to labor shortages and increased labor costs.
It became difficult for many single-crop ranches to maintain production levels and profitability.