APUSH Ch. 22 Answers – Flashcards
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Which one of the following individuals was NOT a prominent muckraker
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C. James G. Blaine
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The focus of Lincoln Steffens' research and writing was
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A. Corruption in city government
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Henry Ford showed that enormous revenues could come from
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D. Small unit profit on a large volume of sales
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The law requiring every state desiring federal funds to establish a highway department to plan routes, oversee construction, and maintain roads was the
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A. Federal Aids Roads Act of 1916
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The control of a commodity or service by a small number of large, powerful companies is called
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B. An oligopoly
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Between 1891 and 1903, the American economy saw
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C. A wave of mergers adn consolidations
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In the first decade of the twentieth century, the economic trend
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B. Was a replacement of industrial capitalist by financial capitalists
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New methods of production in the first years of the twentieth century
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A. Were large-scale and mechanized
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Frederick W. Taylor's management methods emphasized
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D. The enforcement of work standards and cooperation
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Internee industrial system, workers
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C. Frequently faced repetitive and boring work tasks
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This disaster forced state and national attention on working conditions in factories and stores
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D. Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
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In general, farmers
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B. Received some benefit from the effects of urbanization
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Between 1900 and 1920, women
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B. Increasingly found professional careers closed to them
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At the beginning of the twentieth century, many African Americans
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C. Worked in the South under conditions of peonage
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The main focus of the Niagara Movement was
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B. African American Rights
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Padroni were
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C. Labor agents who recruited immigrant workers
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As a bird of passage, an immigrant
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E. Did not stay permanently in the United States
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In the first decades of the twentieth century, Mexican immigration
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B. Increased dramatically
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The "science" of eugenics held that
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A. Population growth among "inferior" peoples should be limited
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In the first decade of the twentieth century, the American Federation of Labor
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B. Remained devoted to the interests of skilled craftsmen
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Which of the following labor leaders advocated social revolution?
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B. "Big Bill" Haywood
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The Industrial Workers of the World
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A. Was the most radical American labor union
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Concerned about labor unrest, business leaders
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C. Turned to applied psychology for answers
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In terms of workers relations, Henry Ford
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E. Tried many innovations
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The drop in the median age of the American population was NOT a result of
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D. Lower infant mortality rates
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The greater leisure time available to workers resulted from
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B. A decrease in the length of the work week
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D.W. Griffith was the
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D. Director of the first movie spectacular, The Birth of a Nation
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Music in the Progressive period
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A. Was strongly influenced by the African American experience
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The ashcan school of Artists
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B. Shared with reformers a feel for the environment.
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A popular form of entertainment that drew from the immigrant experience was
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C. Vaudeville
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Which of the following pioneered improvisational dance?
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C. Isadora Duncan
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New York's _________ attracted avant garde artists, writers, and poets
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E. Greenwich Village
