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100

This famous waterway "became the outlet for almost the greater part of the West."

  • What is the Erie Canal?
100

He famously said, "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach." (p. 3)

  • Who is Upton Sinclair?
100

The Democratic Party Platform of 1900 called these "indefensible and intolerable." (p. 2)

  • What are private monopolies?
100

This 1919 cartoon argued that the economy is hurt when these two groups don't "pull together." (p. 6)

  • Who are Labor and Capital (or Labor and Management)?
100

These crowded, dark, and poorly ventilated apartment buildings were common in NYC. (p. 4)

  • What are tenement houses?
200

In 1863, the NY Legislature met to discuss enlarging these because of increasing tonnage. (p. 1)

  • What are canal locks?
200

This female muckraker exposed the ruthless business practices of the Standard Oil Company. (p. 1)

  • Who is Ida Tarbell?
200

 According to the test, Standard Oil could "depress or inflate" this at will. (p. 1)

  • What is the stock market?
200

These were small, crowded home-workshops where entire families worked all day. (p. 5)

  • What are sweatshops?
200

One of the main "evils" listed in the 1900 report was a lack of separate facilities for this. (p. 4)

  • What are water-closets (or washing facilities/plumbing)?
300

Without the canal, the Treasury Secretary claimed the West would have remained this. (p. 7)

  • What is an uncultivated wilderness?
300

 Jacob Riis used this medium to document "how the other half lives." (p. 5)

  • What is photography?
300

Monopolies were criticized because they destroyed this, which helps keep prices fair. (p. 2)

  • What is competition?
300

A historian would use a cartoon of a man being "squeezed" by Pullman to study this. (p. 2)

  • What is industrialism?
300

Tenements were often considered a "bad" version of this, according to the 1900 report. (p. 4)

  • What is housekeeping?
400

State governments played a role in the economy by spending this on infrastructure. (p. 1)

  • What is public money?
400

Sinclair's book The Jungle was originally written as an exposé for this movement. (p. 3)

  • What is the labor movement (or wage slavery)?
400

This Captain of Industry and owner of Standard Oil was a primary target of reformers. (p. 2)

  • Who is John D. Rockefeller?
400

This President invited Upton Sinclair to the White House to discuss meat inspection. (p. 3)

  • Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
400

This was the primary "legislative" result of documenting poor housing conditions. (p. 4)

  • What are tenement house laws (or building codes)?
500

$500: This "community of interests" existed between the Standard Oil Company and these transportation networks. (p. 1)

  • What are railroads?



500

Riis’s work focused heavily on the "Jewtown" district of this New York City area. (p. 5)


  • What is the Lower East Side?



500

This specific type of legislation was passed to break up "indefensible" monopolies. (p. 2)

  • What is anti-trust legislation?
500

In sweatshops, Riis noted that children were often found working while recovering from this disease. (p. 5)

  • What is smallpox?
500

Jacob Riis argued that poverty always goes hand-in-hand with disease and this. (p. 5)

  • What is dirt?