Progressive Era

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

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

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

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

Which of the following is 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

Which of the following is a Referendum?

• People have the right to remove an elected official from office
• People have the right to choose who will run for President
• People have the right to propose their own law
• Any law passed by the government can be voted on for approval or veto by the people

Which of the following is a Recall?

• People have the right to choose who will run for President
• People have the right to remove an elected official from office
• People have the right to propose a new law
• People have the right to vote on any law passed by their government for approval/veto

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
• More sources of revenue and taxes in state governments.
• They successfully brought economic relief to the urban working class

One major legacy of the Social Gospel Movement was 

• an end to racial segregation in Southern states.
• the conversion of many Catholic immigrants to Protestantism.
•          the intervention of prominent religious leaders into electoral politics
• an increased attention to the needs of the poor in industrial society

The founder of the NAACP who encouraged African Americans to fight to end segregation

• Booker T. Washington
• George Washington Carver
• WEB Dubois
• Upton Sinclair

To preserve water, trees, plants, and other natural resources

• Precipitation
• Confurion
• Conservation
• Infusion

Banned people from making, drinking or selling alcohol

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