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Question 1

How did the Progressive Party set itself apart from the Democratic and Republican parties?

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The Progressive Party strongly supported women’s suffrage.

Question 2

In order to help African Americans in the US gain economic independence, Marcus Garvey founded the

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Black Star Line and the Negro Factories Association.

Question 3

What impact did Sinclair’s book have on the era of Progressive reform?

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The Jungle showed that if the public was informed about a certain issue, it had the power to demand reform from the government.

Question 4

Which of the following best describes the main way that Upton Sinclair gathered research for The Jungle?

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He went undercover as a worker in a meat-packing plant.

Question 5

Read the quotation from Lincoln Steffens’s The Shame of the Cities."My purpose was . . . to see if the shameful facts, spread out in all their shame, would not burn through our civic shamelessness and set fire to American pride." According to Steffens, what was the purpose of muckraking journalism?

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to encourage people to take action against widespread corruption

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