The Progressives

What amendment provided suffrage for women (1920)?

• 16th
• 17th
• 18th
• 19th

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

Writers that dig up the bad things going on in society

• Suffragists
• Muckrakers
• Students
• Chaffinators

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

• Precipitation
• Confurion
• Conservation
• Infusion

T.R. stepped to avoid a crisis in this industry

• oil
• steel
• coal
• water

Which was NOT one of the goals of the Progressive era?

• protect social welfare
• create economic reform
• foster efficiency
• promote monopolies

The Pure Food and Drug Act

• called for truth in labeling
• improved safe working conditions
• closed the Chicago slaughterhouses
• No need for warning labels

Which of these is a likely slogan of the NAWSA?

• “Stop Jim Crow laws!”
• “Lips that touch liquor shall not touch ours!”
• “Stop the suffrage of women today!”
• “Women deserve the right to vote!”

Increased government regulation on business was because of all except;

• The increased power of monopolies in controlling the economy
• The railroads taking advantage of farmers by overcharging for shorthauls.
• The innovation and technological advances of the Gilded Age.
• The revelations of the inhumane practices of the meatpacking industry.

The Progressive Era could best be summed up as...

• an era that experienced massive job loss due to the collapse of the economy.
• an era that placed a great emphasis on reforming the corruption and injustices throughout American society.
• an era where the US started the "war on terror"
• an era where there was no government regulation on American businesses.