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Ohio American History EOC Module 1 industrialization and Progressivism overview quiz quiz

18questions. Pick an answer and you'll see why right away.

  1. Which combination best explains the causes of rapid industrialization after 1877?

  2. John D. Rockefeller built Standard Oil into an oil monopoly in which Ohio city?

  3. Andrew Carnegie controlled the iron mines, the transport, and the mills that made steel. This strategy is called:

  4. A business that controls nearly all production of a good, eliminating competition, is a:

  5. The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 was significant because it:

  6. Why did industrial workers form labor unions in this era?

  7. The Homestead (1892) and Pullman (1894) strikes both show that during the Gilded Age:

  8. The Pendleton Civil Service Act of 1883 reformed government by:

  9. Why did the author Mark Twain call the late 1800s the 'Gilded Age'?

  10. Most 'new immigrants' arriving between 1880 and 1920 came from:

  11. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 is an example of:

  12. Jane Addams's Hull House in Chicago is best known as a:

  13. The Homestead Act of 1862 encouraged settlement of the West by:

  14. The main purpose of the Dawes Act of 1887 was to:

  15. Investigative journalists like Upton Sinclair and Ida Tarbell, who exposed abuses to push for reform, were called:

  16. The single biggest theme the Ohio standards draw from the Progressive Era is the:

  17. Which amendment gave women the right to vote in 1920?

  18. How did W. E. B. Du Bois differ from Booker T. Washington on civil rights?