Progressive Era - Uncovering Problems

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

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

Who was the person who founded the settlement house (Hull House) for the Assimilation and Americanization of the immigrant poor?

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Jane Addams
• Susan B. Anthony
• Belle Starr

1906- Wrote The Jungle which exposed the conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry. (Helped pass the Pure Food and Drug Act) 

• Upton Sinclair 
• Lincoln Steffens 
• Jacob Riis 
• Frank Norris 

The Jungle is an example of this style of writing.  It gave gory depictions of the meat packing industry.

• Support Laissez-faire economics
• Control of political machines
• Muckraking
• Jim Crow Laws

What did the Supreme Court decide in Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896?

• Legalized "separate but equal" public facilities
• Guaranteed woman's right to vote
• Legalized the right of suffrage to all male citizens
• Limited Chinese immigration for 10 years

Muckrakers were:

• Politicians
• Conservationists
• Suffragists
• Journalists

Suffrage refers to:

• Discrimination
• Women’s Rights
• The Right To Vote
• The Denial of Voting

The Progressive Era tried to fix the problems of ________________

• The Civil War
• Reconstruction
• The Great Depression
• The Gilded Age

This muckraker exposed urban poverty and life in the slums (How the Other Half Lives)

• Jacob Riis
• Upton Sinclair
• Ida Tarbell
• Jane Addams

What are the Jim Crow laws?

• segregation laws
• Laws to make Hamilton's birthday a holiday
• animal abuse laws
• laws against bird hunting