Progressive Era

Author of The Jungle

• Ida Tarbell
• Billy Sinclair
• Upton Sinclair
• Jacob Riis

Florence Kelly is associated with:

• ending child labor
• fighting for male suffrage
• ending prohibition
• fighting for female suffrage

Theodore Roosevelt became President after William McKinley was:

• impeached
• assassinated
• kidnapped
• too ill to work

The Pure Food and Drug Act

• called for truth in labeling
• improved safe working conditions
• irregular meat inspections
• No need for warning labels

The Jungle was written to bring changes to the _____ industry

• oil
• meat
• railroad
• steel

the 1902 Coal Strike resulted in

• increased pay and shorter work hours
• the death of 10 miners
• no gains for anyone
• decreased pay and longer work hours

Lincoln Steffens wrote about

• unfair business practices
• political corruption in USA
• Railroad monopolies
• awesome safety in meat packing plants

Which of the following was NOT a problem of the Gilded Age?

• low wages
• child labor
• terrible work conditions
• ideas of entrepreneurs

Jacob Riis wrote about?

• Lynchings in America
• Political corruption
• meat packing plants
• horrible conditions in tenements

Teddy Roosevelt's progressive reforms were known as the:

• Fair deal
• New deal
• Square Deal
• Round Deal