3. Gilded Age/Progressive Era

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9th - 12th Grade
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Jamie Reiter
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What was the purpose of Ellis Island?
To have a place to receive, examine, and process immigrants to the US
As a place to house immigrants who couldn't afford an apartment near where they worked.
To allow the city government a place to meet and discuss urban problems.
To have a place to put schools for immigrants to teach them English and other basic skills.
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The ________ worked on the Central Pacific Railroad for low wages and dangerous work.
Mexican Immigrants
Italian Immigrants
Chinese Immigrants
German Immigrants
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
How founded the Hull House, a settlement house started by Jane Addams for poor women and children.
Upton Sinclair
Ida Tarbell
Jane Addams
Andrew Carneige
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
_________ wrote a book called "How the Other Half Lives" exposing the harsh living conditions of the poor
Jacob Riis
John D. Rockefeller
Upton Sinclair
Ida Tarbell
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Why did the US build the Panama Canal?
They wanted to be in control of everything in Latin America
They wanted a shorter route to and from the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans for trade
Cuba asked them to build it for them.
The Philippines did not have anything the US wanted so we did not help them recover from war.
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is a muckraker?
a yellow journalist
progressive reformer
an investigative journalist
a type of fisherman important after the Great Depression
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Who was responsible for starting Standard Oil Trust?
Andrew Carneige
John D. Rockefeller
Henry Ford
Gerald Ford
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