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Which is not a characteristic of cities in the late 1800s?

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A huge decline in poverty and crime

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Who wrote How the Other Half Lives, the book that brought the miseries of tenement life to national attention?

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Jacob Riis

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Which was not likely to be part of the transportation revolution in cities and suburbs in the late 1800s?

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Highways

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Which statement best describes the growth of cities in the late 1800s?

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Cities grew rapidly as both immigrants and native-born citizens sought higher paying jobs

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Different groupings of people were part of urban life in the late 1800s. What was one thing that was not an important difference at this time?

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Gender

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Which architect helped the city of Chicago rebuild after the fire and is known for using the idea that a building's function should influence its design?

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Louis Sullivan

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Who designed New York's Central Park as a beautiful escape from urban life?

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Frederick Law Olmstead

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How did innovative transportation changes, such as the streetcar, affect the development of nineteenth-century cities?

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Cities could grow and expand to the suburbs because people no longer had to walk everywhere

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Which of the following was not an amusement that became popular in the growing cities of the late 1800s?

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Hockey

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Which was not one of the problems cities experienced as a result of rapid growth in the late 1800s?

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Limited recreation options

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Which of the following would most likely be an advocate social Darwinism?

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Business owners

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What did political machines like Tammany Hall do that created problems during the late 1800s?

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• Took bribes • Controlled contracts -Embezzled money

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Except for Grover Cleveland's two presidencies, which party controlled the White House and politics in the late 1800s?

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Republicans

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What did Chester A. Arthur want to prevent by signing the Pendleton Act authorizing the Civil Service Commission?

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Using federal jobs as political rewards

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Of the following problems, which was the biggest one that farmers faced in the late 1800s?

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Crop lien system

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Which organization was not formed to relieve farmers' problems?

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Farm Aid

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Which group includes item related to the Populist Party?

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• Greater regulation of business • Free silver movement • Income tax • Political power in the hands of the people

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What was the main reason that the Populist Party failed?

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The party did not look forward to economic and industrial expansion

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Which was not a goal of the progressive movement?

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Improving farm conditions

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Who led the progressive movement in Wisconsin, where he served as governor?

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Robert La Follette

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What were some of Theodore Roosevelt's goals for "New Nationalism" during his presidency?

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Conservation and business reform

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Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell, and Upton Sinclair were muckrakers. What did they do?

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Uncovered and reported on political and business corruption

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Which group contains reforms that came about as a result of the progressive movement?

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• Public health programs • Municipal reforms • Direct election and senators • Initiative and referendum measures

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Which president believes in an activist government that was a "steward of the public welfare"?

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Theodore Roosevelt

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What did Woodrow Wilson hope to accomplish with his "new Freedom" government?

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Effective government responses to social and economic issues

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Who developed the idea of settlement houses to help women achieve goals that were otherwise unachievable?

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Jane Addams

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What was the result of the investigative journalism that uncovered corruption and scandal in business and government?

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Government investigations and regulatory reforms were implemented

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Which was not one of the progressive measures adopted during Teddy Roosevelt's presidency?

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Forging an alliance with Spain

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All were effects of racism experienced by African Americans at the turn of the twentieth century except

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Forced relocation to northern cities

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Which is not a method southern state legislatures use to make it difficult for southern blacks to vote

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They attempted to overturn the 15th Amendment

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Who publicly argued that blacks should accept their inferior social position, yet secretly worked to advance their civil rights?

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Booker T. Washington

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Who would most likely have said: "We must have equal rights, but let those of us who are educated and know the ways of politics lead the way."?

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W.E.B. Du Bois

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Who founded the Tuskegee Institute, gave lectures around the country, and established the National Negro Business Leagues?

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Booker T. Washington

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Which statement about women at the turn of the twentieth century is false?

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They were barred from volunteering in social work.

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Which quote best explains the discrimination women faced at the turn of the twentieth century?

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"Women are best suited for domestic service, and not the rough world of work and politics."

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Who was the first woman elected to Congress?

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Jeanette Rankin

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The 19th Amendment became the law of the land

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After 36 states had ratified it

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In which region of the country did the women's suffrage movement achieve its earliest victories?

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The West

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Who founded the National Woman's Party and called for a constitutional amendment to give women the right to vote?

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Alice Paul

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Who led the National American Woman Suffrage Association (created when the NWSA and AWSA merged) and made great progress by developing a highly flexible, state-by-state strategy?

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Carrie Chapman Catt

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Dishonest proceedings like bribery and "kickbacks"

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Corruption

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Rewarding friends and allies with government job and contracts

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Spoils system

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Little or no regulations of business and industry?

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Laissez-faire

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Who designed Central Park?

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Frederick Law Olmstead

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What were newspaper and magazine writers who worked to uncover business and political corruption known as?

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Muckrakers

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Exposed human misery in city slums

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Jacob Riis

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Described John D. Rockefeller's attempts to destroy competitors to his Standard Oil trust slums

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Ida Tarbell

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Wrote The Jungle, which helped inspire Congress to create the Food and Drug Administration.

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Upton Sinclair

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Wrote about city and state political corruption

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Lincoln Steffens

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Who was the founder of Hull House?

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Jane Addams

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Which progressive policies were enacted by President Theodore Roosevelt?

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• Pure Food and Drug Act • National Conservation Commission • Hepburn Act

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Allowed government to tax people with more income at higher rates

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Graduated federal income tax

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Established federal restrictions on child labor.

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Keating-Owen Act

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Investigated and prosecuted unfair business and trading practices.

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Federal Trade Commission

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Which is true about Booker T. Washington

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• He founded Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Alabama. • He was born into slavery • He established the Negro Business League

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At the turn of the twentieth century women were discriminated against in all of the following ways except

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They were barred from volunteering in social work

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Who founded the National Woman's Party and called for a constitutional amendment to give women the right to vote?

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Alice Paul

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During the late 1800s and early 1900s, cities in the United States...

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We're growing because of job opportunities

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Because of changes in __, many people were able to live in the cities and suburbs

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Transportation

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Which is NOT an amusement people enjoyed in the late 1800s/early 1900s?

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Hockey

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Louis Sullivan and William Jenney Made a major innovation in building and design. What was it?

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Skyscrapers

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Frederick Law Olmstead can be Remembered today in New York City If you visit...

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Central Park

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Who was the leader of the Tammany Hall political machine?

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Boss Tweed

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A ____ ____ started by Jane Addams was a means to help the poor and Immigrants with daycare, medical care, Education, etc.

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Settlement house

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The Populist Party most Clearly associated with What group?

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Farmers

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She investigated and Wrote about Standard Oil

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Ida Tarbell

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This was part of Wilson's New Freedom Agenda..

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Eliminate monopolies

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The election of 1912...

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Was a democratic victory because Taft and TR split the Republican vote

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In the South, Many African Americans were trapped in a cycle of poverty because of this agricultural system.

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Sharecropping

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What was the result of the Supreme Court case Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896)?

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Made "separate but equal" is acceptable; legalized segregation

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Segregation But encouraged African Americans to Get an education and a good job. He was the founder of the Tuskegee Institute.

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Booker T. Washington.

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This man thought African Americans and whites should be separate and supported African American resettlement in Africa.

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Marcus Garvey

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Investigated and prosecuted unfair business and trading practices.

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Federal Trade Commission

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