Unit 2: The Progressive Era

When was the Progressive Era?

• 1815-1825
• 1865-1877
• 1900-1920
• 1933-1945

What amendment provided suffrage for women (1920)?

• 16th
• 17th
• 18th
• 19th

Who wrote the piece of literature that revealed the extensive corrupt monopolistic business practices of Standard Oil?

• Ida Tarbell
• Lewis Hines 
• Jacob Riis
• Upton Sinclair

Whose book led to the direct passage of the Meat Inspection Act and indirectly to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Acts?

• Jacob Riis
• Lewis Hines
• Ida Tarbell
• Upton Sinclair

What anti monopoly law made all "combinations, contracts, and conspiracies" that restrained free trade illegal (1890)?

• Interstate Commerce Act
• Sherman Antitrust Act
• Clayton Antitrust Act
• Keller-Cefauver Act

Which of the following is an initiative?

• People have the right to remove a politician from office
• People have the right to choose who will run for President
• People have the right to propose a new law
• People have the right to veto or accept a law passed by the government

This person helped to found the NAACP.

• Ida B Wells
• Booker T Washington
• W E B DuBois
• Martin Luther King Jr.

Key Reforms of the Progressive Era
·  Initiative
·  Referendum
·  Recall
·  Direct Primary
·  17^th Amendment

 How did the reforms listed above impact America?

• A system of separate schools for new immigrants
• They gave citizens a greater voice in the democratic process of government
• They brought an end to corrupt business practices.
• They successfully brought economic relief to the urban working class

Writers that dig up the bad things going on in society.

• Suffragists
• Muckrakers
• Students
• Chaffinators

Banned people from making, drinking or selling alcohol

• 17th Amendment
• 18th Amendment
• 19th Amendment
• 21st Amendment