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Grade 8 Industrialization
Apartment with little sanitation or safety:
  1. vandeville
  2. tenement
  3. Tammany Hall
  4. hull house
Grade 8 Industrialization
The Federal Trade Commission was established in 1914 to:
  1. outlaw television ads.
  2. stop the publication of newspapers.
  3. abolish trade between western and eastern states.
  4. halt unfair business practices.
Grade 8 Industrialization
How did big business differ from earlier forms of business in the US?
  1. Larger pools of capital
  2. Wider geographic span
  3. Broader range of operations
  4. All of the above
Grade 8 Industrialization
What does "transcontinental" mean?
Grade 8 Industrialization
What was the purpose of the "Great White Fleet?"
  1. To give American sailors a chance to see the world.
  2. To see if U.S. ships could actually make it around the world.
  3. To show American strength to the world.
  4. There was no purpose. Roosevelt just wanted to sail around the world because he could.
Grade 8 Industrialization
Towns grew around the                    
  1. farms and mills
  2. mills and factories
  3. farms and villages
Grade 8 Industrialization
During the 1912 campaign, Wilson favored:
  1. a new constitutional convention to completely rewrite the Constitution.
  2. elimination of the electoral college.
  3. abolition of monopolies and reduction of tariffs.
  4. crowning the new president as king.
Grade 8 Industrialization
Famous New York City political machine.
  1. political machine
  2. Tammany Hall
  3. ragtime
  4. urbanization
Grade 8 Industrialization
What happened as a result of this "gentlemen's agreement?" (choose two!)
  1. The two countries agreed to never declare war on each other.
  2. Japan agreed to not permit any more laborers to come to the U.S.
  3. The U.S. agreed not to exclude all Japanese from America.
  4. No more Japanese could enter America for any reason.
Grade 8 Industrialization
What is a trust?
Grade 8 Industrialization
Businessmen often obtained injunctions to stop strikes before they happened or to force strikers to go back to work. Under the Clayton Act,
  1. it became easier to get an injunction for any reason.
  2. injunctions could only be issued to prevent "grave" or serious damage.
  3. a strike could only last for four weeks.
  4. strikes, picketing, and boycotts were made illegal altogether.
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