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STAAR US History Module 1 Gilded Age and Progressive Era overview quiz quiz

15questions. Pick an answer and you'll see why right away.

  1. Which combination best explains why the United States industrialized rapidly after 1877?

  2. Andrew Carnegie used vertical integration in the steel industry. This means he

  3. John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil grew by horizontal integration, which means he

  4. The shift in immigration after 1880 was a change from

  5. In a push and pull analysis, religious persecution in a home country is an example of a

  6. Political machines such as Tammany Hall gained power in cities mainly by

  7. Workers formed labor unions in the late 1800s mainly to

  8. The term laissez-faire describes a government that

  9. Most Gilded Age strikes (such as the Pullman Strike) failed because

  10. Indebted farmers supported free silver because it would

  11. Which of these was a demand of the Populist (People's) Party?

  12. Why is the Populist movement considered influential despite the party's collapse after 1896?

  13. Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle most directly led to the

  14. Which list correctly matches the Progressive Era amendments?

  15. The Nineteenth Amendment (1920) is significant because it