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Why did industrialization lead to an increase in child labor? Select three options.Children could be paid less than adults.Children needed to help their families financially.Younger laborers worked faster than older laborers.Children liked jobs in factories because it was easy work.Unskilled laborers were needed to operate the machinery.

A
Children could be paid less than adults.
B
Children needed to help their families financially.
C
Younger laborers worked faster than older laborers.
D
Children liked jobs in factories because it was easy work.
E
Unskilled laborers were needed to operate the machinery.
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Which conditions caused disease and illness to spread throughout tenements? Select two options.lack of foodlack of privacyimproper sanitationlack of air circulationimproper building codes

A
lack of food
B
lack of privacy
C
improper sanitation
D
lack of air circulation
E
improper building codes
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Jacob Riis’s book How the Other Half Lives helped inspire the passage of laws dealing with which subject?

A
conservation
B
education
C
housing
D
prohibition
4

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

A
The case had no effect on the laws.
B
The case weakened the laws.
C
The case strengthened the laws.
D
The case invalidated the laws.
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In what way are the commission system and council-manager system similar?

A
Both systems have mayors who do not have much power.
B
Both systems have a board of commissioners.
C
Both systems include professionals called city managers.
D
Both systems include city councils made of elected members.
6

Employment opportunities that brought a large number of immigrants to urban areas in the early 1900s included jobs in

A
banks.
B
schools.
C
factories.
D
hospitals.
7

In the 1800s, both “old” and “new” immigrants to the United States faced discrimination because of

A
a decline in economic growth.
B
worries about overpopulation.
C
high US unemployment levels.
D
differences in culture and language.
8

Which statement best supports the idea that the council-manager system is an effective form of city government?

A
It became the basis for many state governments.
B
It is the only form of city government in use today.
C
It is a plan that is still used in many cities today.
D
It relies on a board of commissioners.
9

In 1892, Homer Plessy was arrested for

A
sitting in a "whites only" rail car.
B
sitting in a "whites only" movie theater.
C
appealing a court decision about segregation.
D
attempting to vote in an election.
10

In upholding Louisiana’s Separate Car Act, the Supreme Court claimed that

A
segregation did not constitute discrimination.
B
the Fourteenth Amendment did not apply to southern states.
C
discrimination was necessary in order to maintain public order.
D
segregation was unconstitutional based on the Fourteenth Amendment.
11

The Supreme Court’s Plessy v. Ferguson decision ruled that Louisiana’s Separate Car Act

A
promoted unconstitutional segregation.
B
helped maintain public peace and good order.
C
did not constitute segregation.
D
was required under the Fourteenth Amendment.
12

Why were the reforms of the early 1900s, such as the recall, referendum, and initiative provisions, called “progressive”?

A
because the reforms represented the work of a single person
B
because the reforms represented unpopular, unwanted changes
C
because the reforms represented a return to traditions of the past
D
because the reforms represented forward thinking about political changes
13

In the commission system, each commissioner runs one aspect of government. In the council-manager system, the city manager

A
runs the day-to-day operations of a city.
B
sets the budget for the entire city.
C
oversees the city council meetings.
D
hires the executive who runs the city.
14

Read the information about Hull House.In 1889, Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr founded the Hull House settlement house in a Chicago neighborhood populated by recent Italian, Irish, German, Greek, Bohemian, and Russian and Polish Jewish immigrants. Hull House provided kindergarten and day care for the children of working mothers; an employment bureau; an art gallery; libraries; English and citizenship classes; and theater, music and art classes.

A
It helped immigrants find homes.
B
It helped immigrants with court cases.
C
It helped immigrants adapt to a new life.
D
It helped immigrants with financial troubles.
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In the late 1800s and early 1900s, several Chinatowns had violent riots that were started by

A
nativists who disliked immigrants.
B
immigrants who were denied rights.
C
workers who were unemployed.
D
city workers who were not being paid.

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