Progressive Era/Imperialism

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Which president wanted to control businesses and conserve the environment? Options: William McKinley, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Theodore Roosevelt

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During the early 1900s, the term "muckrakers" was used to describe-

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Writers who exposed the evil in American society

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During which period in United States history were the amendments concerning the income tax, direct election of senators, Prohibition, and women's suffrage enacted? Options: Reconstruction, New Deal, Progressive Era, Gilded Age

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Progressive Era

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Which amendment gave women the right to vote? Options: 16th Amendment, 17th Amendment, 18th Amendment, 19th Amendment

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19th Amendment

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What does it mean that Teddy Roosevelt was known as a "trust-buster"?

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He worked to break up large monopolies

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Fake news is the modern term for what during the 1890s?

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yellow journalism

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What event led to the start of the Spanish-American War?

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sinking of the USS Maine

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What role did the media (yellow journalism) play in the Spanish American War?

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shaped public opinion to go to war

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What did Jacob Riis reveal in his book, How The Other Half Lives?

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living conditions of the tenement buildings in New York

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-USS Maine sinks
-Rough Riders aid the U.S. military in achieving victory
-United States acquires Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines
The events above are related to which of the following?

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Spanish American War