SSUSH13 GSE

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.

Writers that investigated the bad things going on in society

• Suffragists
• Muckrakers
• Students
• Chaffinators

Who was the person who founded the settlement house (Hull House) to help the immigrant poor?

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Jane Addams

• Susan B. Anthony

• Ida B. Wells

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

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

Wrote “History of the Standard Oil Company,” in 1902. Showed how Rockefeller’s rise was based on ruthless business practices. 

• Ida B. Wells 
• Ida Tarbell 
• Susan B. Anthony 
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton 

What book caused the government pass the Meat Inspection Act and create the Food and Drug Administration? 

• The Jungle
• A Red Record
• A History of Standard Oil
• How the Other Half Lives

This muckraker wrote a book that led to the direct passage of the Meat Inspection Act and creation of the Pure Food and Drug Acts?

• Jacob Riis

• Ida Tarbell

• Ida Tarbell

• Upton Sinclair

What did the 17th Amendment do?

• Prohibited the making and selling of alcohol
• Allowed citizens to elect Senators
• Create the Income Tax
• Students no longer had to complete their homework

The creation of initiative, referendum, and recall procedures during the Progressive Era resulted in —

• a system of separate schools for new immigrants
• the expansion of citizens’ direct participation in the democratic process
• a redistribution of the tax burden among citizens
• more sources of revenue for state governments

Which of the following is a Referendum?

• People have the right to remove an elected official from office
• People have the right to choose who will run for President
• People have the right to propose their own law and force the government to vote on it
• The people can vote on a law, or vote to remove a law