Practice Test

Question 1

Why did a provision of the Interstate Commerce Act require railroads to make their rates public?

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A: so that railroad companies couldn’t unfairly charge different rates

Question 2

How did the efforts of Jane Addams differ from the efforts of Lincoln Steffens?

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D: Addams worked to help immigrants; Steffens worked to reform the government.

Question 3

What effect, if any, did Plessy v. Ferguson have on the South’s Jim Crow laws?

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A: The case strengthened the laws.

Question 4

In 1892, Homer Plessy was arrested for

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B: sitting in a "whites only" rail car.

Question 5

How did Theodore Roosevelt’s Square Deal help the environment?

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A: by preserving the nation’s forests

Question 6

Which best describes Carrie Chapman Catt’s “Winning Plan” to achieve national women's suffrage?

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C: to win women’s suffrage in as many states as possible while campaigning Congress to pass a constitutional amendment

Question 7

Who first applied the term muckraker to journalism?

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D: President Theodore Roosevelt

Question 8

What was Upton Sinclair’s main purpose in writing The Jungle ?

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A: to promote the socialist views that he adopted as an adult

Question 9

What did the People’s Party believe would result from the government taking control of America’s railroads and banks?

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C: Government control would prevent those industries from taking advantage of small farmers.

Question 10

Which best describes William Jennings Bryan’s political life following the 1896 election?

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C: After losing to McKinley, Bryan ran for president twice more.

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