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What was the term for Journalists who investigated American life and sought to expose corruption and questionable practices?

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mucrakers

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Which of the following individuals was NOT a prominent muckraker?

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James G. Blaine

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The focus of Lincoln Steffens' research and writing was

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corruption in city government.

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Which of the following individuals wrote The Jungle?

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Upton Sinclair

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The best example of a mass produced consumer product in the early 1900s was

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the Model T of Henry Ford

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Henry Ford showed that enormous revenues could come from

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small unit profit on a large volume of sales.

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Ford got the idea for the moving assembly line by observing

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a meat packing plant

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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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Federal Aid Roads Act of 1916

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In 1909, just __ percent of industrial firms produced nearly half of all manufactured goods.

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1

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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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an oligopoly

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Between 1898 and 1903, the American economy saw

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a wave of mergers and consolidations

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In the first decade of the twentieth century, the economic trend

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was a replacement of industrial capitalists by financial capitalists.

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The leading financer in the US in the early 1900s was

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JP Morgan

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New methods of production in the first years of the twentieth century

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were large scaled and merchanized.

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In 1900 ______ founded the first industrial research laboratory.

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General Electric

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Frederick W. Taylor's management methods emphasized

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the enforcement of work standards and cooperation.

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In the new industrial system, workers

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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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Triangle Shirtwaist fire

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In general, farmers

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received some benefit from the effects of urbanization.

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Between 1900 and 1920, women

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increasingly found professional careers closed to them.

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In the early 1900s, the majority of "new" immigrants commonly included people from any of the following countries EXCEPT

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Germany

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At the beginning of the twentieth century, many African Americans

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worked in the south under conditions of peonage.

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The Niagara Movement was headed by

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WEB Du Bois

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The main focus of the Niagara Movement was

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African American rights

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Which of the following individuals took a gradualists approach to African American concerns?

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Booker T Washington

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Which organization led the fight for equal rights and education?

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NAACP

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Padroni were

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labor agents who recruited immigrant workers.

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As a bird of passage, an immigrant

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did not stay permanently in the US

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In the first decades of the twentieth century, Mexican immigration

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increase dramatically

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Immigrants to the US in the early 1900s

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encountered considerable hostility form American nativists.

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The "science" of eugenics held that

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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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remained devoted to the interests of skilled craftsmen.

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Which of the following individuals headed the American Federation of Labor?

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Samuel Gompers

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Which of the following labor leaders advocated social revolution?

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"Big Bill" Haywood

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Which of the following individuals was a founder of the Industrial Workers of the World?

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"Big Bill" Haywood

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The Industrial Workers of the World

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was the most racial American labor union

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Concerned about labor unrest, business leaders

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turned to applied psychology for answers.

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The leading figure in the development of corporate public relations was

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Ivy L. Lee

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In terms of worker relations, Henry Ford

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tried many innovations

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The great textile plant and community located in Manchester, New Hampshire in the early 1900s was known as

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Amoskeag

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By 1920,

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the quality of life had improved for many Americans.

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The drop in the median age of the American population was NOT a result of

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lower infant mortality rates.

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The greater leisure time available to workers resulted from

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a decrease in the length of the work week.

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DW Griffith was the

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director of the first movie spectacular, The Birth of a Nation

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The violence of _____ led to the establishment of the Nation Collegiate Athletic Association.

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football

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Music in the Progressive period

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was strongly influenced by the African American experience.

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A popular form of entertainment that drew from the immigrant experience was

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vaudeville

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Which of the following pioneered improvisitational dance?

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Isadora Duncan

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New York's ______ attracted avant garde artists, writers, and poets

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Greenwich Village

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The Ashcan school of artists

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shared with the reformers a feel for the environment

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