The Progressive Era #1

Whose book led to the direct passage of the Meat Inspection Act and passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act?

• Jacob Riis
• Lewis Hine
• Ida Tarbell
• Upton Sinclair

When was the Progressive Era?

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

Who wrote the articles that revealed the extensive corrupt monopolistic business practices of Standard Oil?

• Ida Tarbell
• Lewis Hines 
• Jacob Riis
• Upton Sinclair

Which 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 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
• gave voters the power to make a bill become a law

Which of the following is an initiative?

• People have the right to remove a politician from office
• People have the right to choose who will run for President
• People have the right to propose a new law
• gave voters the power to make a bill become a law

Which of the following is a recall?

• People have the right to choose who will run for President
• People have the right to remove an elected official from office
• People have the right to propose a new law
• gave voters the power to make a bill become a law

 The actions of muckrakers in the late 19th century and early 20th century resulted in

• Supreme Court decisions that expanded the right to vote
• government regulation of unfair business practices
• increases in the power of monopolies
• reduction of the president’s power to manage the economy

Key Reforms of the Progressive Era
·  Initiative
·  Referendum
·  Recall
·  Direct Primary
·  17^th Amendment

 How did the reforms listed above impact America?

• A system of separate schools for new immigrants
• They gave citizens a greater voice in the democratic process of government
• More sources of revenue and taxes in state governments.
• They successfully brought economic relief to the urban working class

Writers that dig up the bad things going on in society

• Suffragists
• Muckrakers
• Students
• Chaffinators

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