Progressive Era Formative Assessment

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

Which act was rushed to Congress and passed shortly after the publication of Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle in 1906? 

• Federal Reserve Act
• Clayton Antitrust Act
• Australian Ballot Act
• Meat Inspection Act

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Who was the photographer who revealed to the world how the lower class lived?

• Alexander Bell
• Jacob Riis
• Upton Sinclair
• Theodore Roosevelt

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

This "muckraker" wrote The Jungle that exposed the horrible practices of the meatpacking industry during the Progressive Era.

• Jacob Riis
• Upton Sinclair
• Jane Addams
• Susan B. Anthony

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.

Reporters, journalists, photographers, and authors who used the media to raise concerns about the negative effects of industrialization were known as

• muckrakers
• suffragists
• immigrants
• abolitionists

A period of time when social, economic and political problems caused by rapid industrialization were exposed and in some cases reformed

• Industrialization
• Progressive Era
• Reconstruction
• Prohibition