The Progressive Era (SSUSH13ab)

Multiple Choice

What inference can be made from the diagram?

• The best tasting foods are not always the most healthy ones.

• Most Progressive social reforms occurred at the state level.

• Muckrakers had an impact in promoting change by exposing problems.

• Upton Sinclair used his success as a writer to win election to Congress.

Multiple Choice

What was the impact of these muckraking activities below during the Progressive Era?

• Society changed in response to their promotion of Social Darwinism

• Voters agreed to let big business owners create more profitable monopolies

• Reports of their works in publications abroad caused a decline in immigration

• Public reaction to their books led to new laws addressing the abuses of industrialization

Multiple Choice

Jane Addams founded Hull House in 1889 in an immigrant community for the purpose of providing educational opportunities for immigrants, especially immigrant women. By 1893, Hull House was serving 2,000 clients. Which best describes Jane Addams?

• a woman reformer

• an elected legislator

• a wealthy businesswoman

• a poor immigrant