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Unit 5 Test

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Industry, Progressives, and Expansion
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The muckraking journalists associated with the Progressive Era were known primarily for their

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Which technology MOST aided in the settlement of the West during the period immediately following the Civil War?

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Use the quotation to answer the question.

“Hawaii is ours; Puerto Rico is to be ours; at the prayer of her people Cuba will finally be ours; in the islands of the East… the flag of a liberal government is to float over the Philippines… The Opposition tells us that we ought not to govern a people without their consent. I answer the rule… that all government derives its authority from the consent of the governed, applies only to those who are capable of self-government.” -Senator Albert Beveridge, “The March of the Flag” speech (1898)

Which policy was Senator Beveridge advocating in this statement?

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Complete the paragraph by selecting the correct phrase from each drop-down menu.

There were many Progressive-Era reforms. Reforms such as __________ empowered citizens of the United States. In addition, reforms such as __________ made the workplace safer for people living in the United States.
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The New Immigrants that came to the United States after 1880

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As a result of westward expansion at the end of the 19th century,

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During the 1800s, the United States was expanding westward. Many Plains Indians resisted the expansion. What did the U.S. government do in response to the Plains Indians' resistance to the expansion?

Move the TWO correct responses into the boxes.
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Other Answer Choices:
It encouraged interest in American Indian culture.
It halted the building of the transcontinental railroad.
It relocated American Indians onto Reservations.
It slowed the number of settlers moving west.
It engaged in numerous military battles.
It trained American Indians to work in factories.
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Why was the construction of the Panama Canal significant?

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Use the political cartoon to answer the question.



What does the political cartoon represent?

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Why did Congress pass the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?

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The graph illustrates immigrant settlement patterns between 1870 and 1910 in the US. Use it to answer the question.



Which statement provides an accurate analysis of the trend shown in the graph?

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Use this list to answer the question.



What do the elements in the list have in common?

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What was the main argument of the American Anti-Imperialist League?

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What was the last major conflict between the federal government and American Indians?

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Use the quotation below to answer the question.

“He is no doubt the greatest inventor of all time. Why, without his creative genius, we would have no recording of sounds, no televisions, no movies… Even more than that, we’d still be reading books by candle light and saying our goodnights by 8 p.m.”

Who is the quote MOST LIKELY referring to?

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W.E.B. DuBois, the first Black Ph.D. graduate from Harvard University, was instrumental in founding an organization devoted to the progress of the African-American community. What was this organization called?

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Which of the following would have been unacceptable based on the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine?

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Use the excerpt to answer the question.



Which group of people is the MOST LIKELY subject of discussion in the excerpt?

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Use the excerpt to answer the question.



What task was this group of people working on?

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In 1898, William Randolph Hearst, a newspaper owner, reportedly sent a message to one of his photographers in Cuba that stated, “you furnish [provide] the photographs and I’ll furnish the war.” Which technique was Hearst using?

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Who led Lakota and Sioux warriors to victory over Colonel Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn?

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Upton Sinclair’s novel, The Jungle, led directly to which of the following acts of Congress?

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Use the political cartoon to answer the question.



What does the fruit in the cartoon represent?

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Which of the following was NOT a cause of the Spanish-American War?

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Use the excerpt to answer the question.

“If it has taught us anything, it is that our present law-makers, as a body, are ignorant, corrupt and unprincipled; that the majority of them are, directly or indirectly, under the control of the very monopolies against whose acts we have been seeking relief…”

The excerpt MOST likely came from which Progressive Era work?

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Jane Addams created Hull House

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Use the graph to answer the question.



Which development explains the change in the data shown in the graph?

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Jim Crow laws, which were passed in southern states following Reconstruction, were intended to

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Use the quote to answer the question.

“It is only right that those workers who are oppressed by their employers, who toil under harsh and dangerous conditions for too little pay and too long of hours, unite together to demand what is just. If we must strike, then we strike. If we must resort to boycotts, then boycotts we shall initiate. We are ready to bargain collectively for just working conditions, but we will not be intimidated.”

Who would have MOST LIKELY made the statement above?

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Which of the following was a major goal of the Progressive Movement?

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Which of the following was a result of the Spanish-American War?

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The political cartoon reflects President Roosevelt’s concern for what?

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Unions used strikes and protests to convince employers to give workers shorter workdays, better working conditions, higher wages, and greater control over their workplace. The most significant of these unions in the late 1800s was the

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Which Supreme Court decision upheld “separate but equal” facilities for Whites and Blacks, leading to further segregation in the South?

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Use the table to answer the question.



What directly resulted from the increase shown in the table?