US History Standard 13

Who wrote the expose piece of literature that revealed the extensive corrupt monopolistic business practices of Standard Oil?

• Ida Tarbell
• Lewis Hines 
• Jacob Riis
• Upton Sinclair

Whose book led to the direct passage of the Meat Inspection Act and indirect of the Pure Food and Drug Acts?

• Jacob Riis
• Lewis Hines
• Ida Tarbell
• Upton Sinclair

Who was the person who founded the settlement house (Hull House) for the Assimilation and Americanization of the immigrant poor?

• Elixabeth Cady Stanton
• Jane Addams
• Susan B. Anthony
• Belle Starr

Who was the leader of the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?

• Eugene Debs
• Jacob Riis
• Samuel Gompers
• Upton Sinclair

This person helped to found the NAACP

• Ida B Wells
• Booker T Washington
• W E B DuBois
• Martin Luther King Jr.

 The actions of muckrakers in the late 19th century and early 20th century resulted in

• Supreme Court decisions that expanded the right to vote
• government regulation of unfair business practices
• increases in the power of monopolies
• reduction of the president’s power to manage the economy

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.9

CCSS.RL.7.9

Writers that dig up the bad things going on in society

• Suffragists
• Muckrakers
• Students
• Chaffinators

To preserve water, trees, plants, and other natural resources

• Precipitation
• Confurion
• Conservation
• Infusion

Made it illegal to create trusts and monopolies

• Sherman Antitrust Act
• Sherman Antimonopoly Act
• Sherman Shortly Act
• Sherman No Business Act

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

Which act was rushed to Congress and passed shortly after the publication of Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle in 1906? 

• Federal Reserve Act
• Clayton Antitrust Act
• Australian Ballot Act
• Meat Inspection Act

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.K.6