Midterm Quiz #4: Progressive Era

What was the 19th Amendment?

• Suffrage for African Americans
• Ban on alcohol
• Women's suffrage
• Direct election of senators

What book led to the Meat Inspection Act?

• The Hunger Games
• The Jungle
• The Rainforest
• 1984

Progressives did a lot to help African Americans.

• True
• False

What did Prohibition do?

• Ban alcohol
• Ban monopolies
• Ban trusts

What was Standard Oil accused of?

• Illegal monopoly and trust
• Misusing vertical consolidation
• Paying workers too much
• Child labor

The Progressives were mainly...

• white, educated, urban women
• white, educated, urban men
• A and B
• none of the above

Progressives strove to make things safer.  Which of the following programs did they create?

• Pure Food and Drug Act
• Social Security
• Civilian Conservation Corps
• Knights of Labor

Who didn't the Progressives really help?

• People in urban areas
• Farmers
• African Americans 
• Both B and C

What broke up monopolies that hurt consumers?

• Roe vs. Wade
• WWI
• Sherman Anti-trust Act
• Laissez-Faire Economics

What helped women get suffrage?

• Prohibition
• Farmers
• WWII
• WWI