Unit Test

Question 1

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.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

A: Children could be paid less than adults.; B: Children needed to help their families financially.; E: Unskilled laborers were needed to operate the machinery.

Question 2

Which conditions caused disease and illness to spread throughout tenements? Select two options.lack of foodlack of privacyimproper sanitationlack of air circulationimproper building codes

Revolt · Accepted Answer

C: improper sanitation; D: lack of air circulation

Question 3

Jacob Riis’s book How the Other Half Lives helped inspire the passage of laws dealing with which subject?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

C: housing

Question 4

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

Question 5

In what way are the commission system and council-manager system similar?

Question 6

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

Question 7

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

Question 8

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

Question 9

In 1892, Homer Plessy was arrested for

Question 10

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

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