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100
What is a trust?
100
What is the purpose of a labor union?
100
What are tenements?
100
Who was Jacob Riis and why is he historically significant?
100
Why did William Taft prove unpopular as president?
200
What was the purpose of the Sherman Antitrust Act?
200
Explain Nativist ideology
200
Identify THREE issues that arose in urban society
200
What are muckrakers? What is their role in society?
200
What group of people most supported Populism?
300
Identify THREE robber barons
300
Why did the U.S. refuse to restrict immigration until the 1920s?
300
What factors led to the development of urban skyscrapers?
300
What was the purpose of settlement houses like Hull House?
300
Identify THREE principles of the People’s Party
400
How did laissez-faire economics change American society?
400
What factors made labor unions unpopular in American society?
400
Identify ONE advantage and ONE disadvantage of political machines?
400
What led to the establishment of the Food and Drug Administration?
400
Compare and contrast Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson
500
Why did the federal government fund railroads and other transportation networks?
500
Identify THREE goals of the labor movement
500
What are political machines and how did they work?
500
Describe the purpose and principles of Progressivism
500
Describe the Election of 1912? Who ran and who won?