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Chapter 19: The Promise and Perils of Progressive Reform, 1900-1912

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Thomas Edison invented the kinetoscope, an early prototype of:

a machine part that greatly improved the assembly-line process.an educational tool.a revolutionary surgical device.the motion picture camera.a high-powered microscope.

Jewish immigrant entrepreneurs were the first to recognize the potential of __________ for mass entertainment.

baseball the motion picture industrybicycles amusement parksmusical theatre

A measure of the changing sexual mores in America in this period was:

the relative decline in sexually-transmitted diseases.the rise in the proportion of brides who were pregnant at marriage.the elaborate courtship ritual.the increasing length of marriages.declining divorce rates.

The artistic movement known as "realism" was characterized by:

the use of irony as a literary device.a detached and skeptical approach to subject matter.a heavy reliance on humor.an emphasis on gothic horror.an obsession with the natural world.

An early pioneer in the new music called "jazz" was:

Billie Holiday.Scott Joplin.Buddy Bolden.W.C. Handy.John Coltrane.

One of the most famous muckraking novels was Upton Sinclair's:

The Shame of the Cities.Salome of the Tenements.The Jungle.Sister Carrie.Jews Without Money.

The Pure Food and Drug Act was:

an attempt to improve disease-ridden cities.the first of a series of consumer protection laws.an attempt to regulate agribusiness.inspired by the settlement house movement.an effort to stamp out child labor.

At the national level, vice crusading culminated in the passage of the Mann Act in 1910 which:

set aside public funds to end opium smuggling.made it illegal to distribute birth control information.made it illegal to transport women across state lines for immoral purposes.was the first gun-control measure.eliminated the sale of alcohol.

The required three-quarters of the states ratified the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920:

ending the sale of alcohol in America until its repeal in 1933.extending equal protection to all new immigrants. creating the graduated federal income tax.granting women the right to vote.allowing for the direct election of senators.

The leader of the radical Industrial Workers of the World was:

Jane Addams.Lucia Parsons.Elizabeth Gurley Flynn.Big Bill Haywood.Eugene V. Debs.

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