Unit 3 Review: Industrialization, Reform, and Imperialism

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The work of muckraker Upton Sinclair led to which of the following?
- laws protecting the rights of consumers
- laws that helped African American rights
- laws that increased taxes on the rich
- laws that gave workers more rights

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laws protecting the rights of consumers

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How did Thomas Edison’s inventions change daily life for Americans?

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led to longer working hours with better artificial light

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Why did Theodore Roosevelt establish the Roosevelt Corollary?

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to guarantee the US right to intervene in Latin America

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What motivated the United States to gain control of the land it needed to build the Panama Canal?

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a need to speed up ships moving between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans

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Where were many of the new immigrants of the late 1800’s moving when they arrived in the US?

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ethnic neighborhoods in large industrial cities

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Why did Chinese workers face discrimination from white Americans?

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resentment over the Chinese accepting lower wage jobs

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What did President Theodore Roosevelt's conservation movement eventually lead to?

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expansion of national parks

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What term describes a single company that controls virtually all production and distribution of a product?

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monopoly

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Which major organization emerged in the early 1900’s to resist racial inequality in America?

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NAACP

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The Hull House was founded in 1889 by which female Progressive era reformer?

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Jane Addams