Unit 2: Progressive Era

When was the Progressive Era?

• Antebellum
• 1865-1877
• 1900-1920
• 1933-1945

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What amendment provided suffrage for women (1920)?

• 16th
• 17th
• 18th
• 19th

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

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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

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What anti monopoly law made all"combinations, contracts, and conspiracies" that restrained free trade illegal (1890)?

• Interstate Commerce Act
• Sherman Antitrust Act
• Clayton Antitrust Act
• Keller-Cefauver Act

Which Progressive President used Big Stick Diplomacy and was known as a Trust buster?

• Teddy Roosevelt
• Taft
• Woodrow Wilson
• Luke Skywalker

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Who was the leader of the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?

• Eugene Debs
• Jacob Riis
• Samuel Gompers
• Upton Sinclair

Whose book caused the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act to be passed?

• Upton Sinclair
• Lincoln Steffens
• Ida Tarbell
• Jacob Riis

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This person helped to found the NAACP

• Ida B Wells
• Booker T Washington
• W E B DuBois
• Martin Luther King Jr.

Which long-awaited goal of the women’s rights movement was achieved during the Progressive Era?

•    the right to vote
•   the right to own property
•    equal pay for equal work
• equal access to employment and education