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Virginia and US History SOL Module 4 industrialization, imperialism, and World War I overview quiz quiz

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

  1. Which of these helped drive rapid industrialization after the Civil War?

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

  3. Why did industrial workers form labor unions?

  4. Where did most 'new immigrants' of 1880 to 1920 come from?

  5. Which entry point processed most European immigrants arriving in New York?

  6. What is nativism?

  7. Who were the muckrakers?

  8. What did the 19th Amendment do?

  9. What did the 17th Amendment change?

  10. Which consumer-protection laws followed Upton Sinclair's The Jungle?

  11. As a result of the Spanish-American War (1898), the United States gained:

  12. Why was the Panama Canal (opened 1914) strategically important?

  13. What were the main underlying causes of World War I?

  14. Which events pushed the United States to enter World War I in 1917?

  15. How did American entry affect World War I?

  16. In Schenck v. United States (1919), the Supreme Court upheld the government's power to:

  17. What was the Great Migration during and after World War I?

  18. Why did the United States Senate reject the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations?