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| C. The city bosses opposed legislation to improve working conditions |
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There are several reasons it took so long to regulate the working hours and working conditions of women and children. What was NOT one of these reasons?
A. Employers wanted the cheap labor that children and women provided.
B. Families needed the wages earned ny their child and female members.
C. The city bosses opposed legislation to improve working conditions
D. The Supreme Court struck donw laws that regulated child labor |
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| B. The fact that most union members were socialists |
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Which of the following do you think did most weaken the pwoer of unions?
A. The fact that many police officers were themselves unon members
B. The fact that most union members were socialists
C. The fact that most unions refused to admit women
D. The fact that new immigrants took the jobs of men on strike |
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Which states were most reluctant to grant women the right ot vote?
A. those in rural areas
B. those in the East and Southeast
C. Those on the West Coast
D. Those with large city populations |
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Which of the following did NOT support the Temperance Movement?
A. Irish Catholics
B. Native-born Americans
C. Protestants
D. Women suffragists |
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Which workers were most likely to belong to a labor union?
A. Chinese railroad workers
B. Mexican fruit pickers
C. Polish mineworkers
D. Women garment workers |
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American who opposed immigrants and immigration were known as----
F. abolitionists
G. muckrakers
H. nativists
J. Progressives |
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| D. Southern and Eastern Europe |
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Where did most U.S. immigrants come from in the years between 1880 and 1910?
A. Canada
B. China and Japan
C. Mexico
D. Southern and Eastern Europe |
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Which of the following was a "robber baron"?
F. Alexander Graham Bell
G. Booker Washington
H. John Rockefeller
J. Theodore Roosevelt |
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Which invention, developed by Henry Ford, helped to speed up production in the automobile industry?
A. Mail order retailing
B. The assembly line
C. The hydroelectric generating plant
D. The power drill |
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| F. businessman who wanted to eliminate their competitors |
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The Progressive Movement included all of the following except--
F. businessman who wanted to eliminate their competitors
G. labor unionists
H. reformers who wanted to eliminate child labor
J. woman suffragists |
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| A. The creation of the NAACP |
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Which achievement of the Progressive Era was most important to African Americans?
A. The creation of the NAA
B. The formation of the AFL
C. The passage of the Nineteenth Amendment
D. The passage of the Twentieth Amendment |
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Which crop thrived on the Great Plains, even on the dry WEstern Plains?
A. Corn
B. Cotton
C. Soybeans
D. Wheat |
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| H. The resistance of the Native Americans who lived there |
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What slowed settlement on the Plains?
F. the high cost of land
G. the opposition of the federal governement and the U.S. Army
H. The resistance of the Native Americans who lived there
J. The total lack of long-distance transportation |
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The main goal of the yellow journalism is to----
A. Create revolutions
B. sell more newspapers
C. tell the truth
D. win support for a particular individual |
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Which major nation was also allied with Britain and FRance through most of the war?
A. Russia
B. Spain
C. Sweden
D. Turkey |
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| B. to shape the peace terms when the war ended |
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What was the purpose of the plan published in 1918, Wilson called the Fourteen Points?
A.To abolish racism
B. To shape the peace terms when the war ended
C. To sell more papers
D. reduce tariffs throughout the world |
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| A. Allow nations to solve their conflicts without going to war |
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President Wilson hoped the League of Nations would---
A. allow nations to solve their conflicts without going to war
B. help the U.S. avoid foreign entanglements
C. make a peace treaty to end the war
D. reduce tariffs throughout the world |
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Companies developed several methods of expanding their sales. Which of the following was not one of them?
A. Advertising
B. Credit
C. Mail order retailing
D. Using assembly lines |
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| B. People were buying and using a wider variety of goods |
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How would you charactrize economic life for most people in the 1920s?
A. Consumers suffered from too much government interference in their lives.
B. People were buying and using a wider variety of goods
C. People were poorer
D. very little had changed since 1900 |
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| B. Prohibition of alcohol |
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The growth of organized crime was a direct consequence of ----
A. increased immigration
B. Probibition of alcohol
C. the cultural influence of young people
D. the Jazz Age |
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