Progressive Era Part 1 Quiz

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

Who advocated for African Americans to take on menial jobs and earn the respect of white America with hard work ?

• WEB Du Bois

• Marcus Garvey

• Booker T. Washington

• Nat Turner

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.

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

One major legacy of the Social Gospel Movement was

• an end to racial segregation in Southern states.

• the conversion of many Catholic immigrants to Protestantism.

• the intervention of prominent religious leaders into electoral politics

• an increased attention to the needs of the poor in industrial society

Which of the following is the most significant impact of the Progressive parties?

• restoration of the nation’s cities

• stagnation of opportunities for immigrants

• improvement in the status of Native Americans

• increased control of government by the people

Writers that dig up the bad things going on in society

• Suffragists
• Muckrakers
• Students
• Chaffinators

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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

Leader of the women's suffrage movement and instrumental in getting the 19th Amendment passed

• Susan B. Anthony

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Upton Sinclair

• Theodore Roosevelt