Child labor, a Progressive Era cause:
an eight-year-old news boy, St. Louis, 1910
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Question 01006:
(A) the drafting of men into the armed forces
(B) the passage of the 18th Amendment (Prohibition)
(C) the right of women to vote
(D) unsafe mining practices
(E) birth control and family planning
Which of the following Progressive Era
causes led to mass arrests, hunger strikes and the force-feeding of
prisoners by the Washington, D.C. police in 1917?
(A) the drafting of men into the armed forces
(B) the passage of the 18th Amendment (Prohibition)
(C) the right of women to vote
(D) unsafe mining practices
(E) birth control and family planning