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1

Which group most favored the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882?

nativists on the West Coast

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This picture represents an issue that was dealt with MOST successfully by which political movement?

Progressive

3

How were the Homestead and Pullman Strikes similar?

Both ended in important defeats for organized labor.

4

What was the impact of these muckraking activities during the early 1900s?
- Upton Sinclair exposed the unhealthy practices of Chicago's meat-packing industry plants.
- Ida Tarbell revealed the dishonest business tactics of Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company
- Jacob Riis wrote How the other Half lives, showing the conditions of the residents of New York city tenements

Public reaction to their books led to new laws addressing the abuses of industrialization.

5

One of the main reasons John D. Rockefeller was able to succeed in the oil industry was because he

combined vertical and horizontal integration.

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Which was not a major issue faced by the cities on the table below?

raising food prices cause by labor shortages on farms

7

If you were going to go to a movie about the person that invented the "motion picture," which movie title would you choose?

Oh, Edison!

8

How did American industrial leaders accumulate wealth during the late 1800s?

by creating monopolies and establishing trusts

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This certificate was issued in 1919. What was the primary goal of the organization that issued this certificate?

to obtain better conditions for workers in ts affiliate unions

10

What was a negative aspect of the "Americanization" policy of the late 1880s for American Indians?

Indians saw the survival of their traditional customs threatened