Decades 2022 - Lopez Version

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In 1906 publication of Upton Sinclair's book "The Jungle" helped to expose the 

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unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry.

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Who was responsible for manufacturing automobiles on a moving assembly line, thus making them affordable for the average American?

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Henry Ford

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What was the name of the British passenger boat that was sunk by German U-Boats killing 128 Americans in 1915?

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Lusitania

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The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911 caused

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improved fire equipment, building codes to include fire escapes, safety elevators.

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The man who flew the first nonstop flight from US to Paris in 1927.

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Charles Lindbergh

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What were secret nightclubs in the 1920s that sold illegal alcohol called?

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speakeasy

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New Deal programs such as the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and the Works Progress Administration (WPA) were primarily intended to help: farmers, homeowners, businesses, unemployed workers

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unemployed workers

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John Steinbeck’s, The Grapes of Wrath, published in 1939, sympathetically portrayed the plight of:

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Oklahoma "Okie" migrants.

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What happened to Japanese Americans during World War II? Options: They were executed, They were placed in internment camps, They were forced to serve in the military, They were deported from the U.S.

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They were placed in internment camps

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What event led to the US joining WWII?

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Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.