Module 5 Review

All of the following were actively involved in securing the right to vote for women except

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Susan B. Anthony
• Florence Kelley
• Carrie Chapman Catt

In The Jungle, Upton Sinclair exposed

• dangers faced by coal miners.
• corrupt business practices of the Standard Oil Company.
• unsanitary conditions in the meat-packing industry.
• illegal deals between special interests and the government.

*Meat Inspection Act
* Secret Ballot
* 17th Amendment
* National Park Services
* Initiative, Recall, and Referendum
 The above items would most likely be referred to in an essay 

• U.S. foreign policy
• environmental conservation
• Progressive Era reform
• civil rights legislation

The first person to use the presidency as a "bully pulpit" was

• William H. Taft
  Theodore Roosevelt
• William H. Taft
• Woodrow Wilson
• William McKinley 

The law that required truthful labels was the

• Pure Food and Drug Act.
• Meat Inspection Act
• Sherman Antitrust Act.
• Interstate Commerce Act.

Which of the following affirmed the legality of racial segregation and prompted the passage of Jim Crow laws?

• the Fourteenth Amendment
• the Civil Rights Act of 1875 Amendment
• the decision in Plessy v. Ferguson
• the decision in Morgan v. Virginia

The progressive movement regarded all of the following as worthy goals except

• protecting social welfare
• promoting business monopolies
• creating economic reform
• fostering efficiency in the workplace

Muckrakers were: 

• Politicians 
• Conversationists
• Suffragists
• Journalist 

A bill that originates from the people rather than legislators is known as

• A recall
  a Recall
• an initiative
• a referendum
• an amendment

“The object of the [Fourteenth] Amendment was…undoubtedly to enforce the absolute equality of the two races before the law but…, it could not have been intended to abolish distinctions based upon color, or to enforce social, as distinguished from political, equality, or a commingling [mixing] of the two races upon terms unsatisfactory to either.”   ----Justice Henry B. Brown, 1896

In the case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that

• lynching was a federal crime
• school segregation was unconstitutional
• the 14th amendment declared "separate but equal" unconstitutional. 
• racial segregation in public accommodations was legal