Progressive Quiz 2

In 1906, Teddy Roosevelt and Congress enacted federal laws to protect the consumer. This act was passed to ensure the quality of meat prior to consumption. What was it called?

• Mann-Elkins Act.

• Government Regulations Act

• The Meat Inspection Act

• The Meat and Drug Act

The Progressives fought for political reforms. One example of political reforms passed by the progressives was the 17^th Amendment. What did this U.S. amendment state?

• House of Representatives were elected by popular vote

• Senators were elected by the people by popular vote

• blacks were granted suffrage rights

• women were granted suffrage rights

He was the founder of the NAACP which fought to gain equal treatment for African Americans. Who is this reformer?

• Teddy Roosevelt

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Teddy T. Washington

• Robert La Follette

He was the first Progressive President of the United States. He also advocated a “Square Deal” for Americans. He switched parties and ran for President as a 3^rd party Bull Moose candidate. Who was this man?

• Teddy Roosevelt

• Woodrow Wilson

• William McKinley

• William Howard Taft

The 16^th, 18^th and 19^th Amendments were:

• a municipal reform

• a state reform

• a federal reform

• all of the above

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

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

Banned people from making, drinking or selling alcohol

• 17th Amendment
• 18th Amendment
• 19th Amendment
• 21st Amendment

1906- Wrote The Jungle which exposed the conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry. (Helped pass the Pure Food and Drug Act) 

• Upton Sinclair 
• Lincoln Steffens 
• Jacob Riis 
• Frank Norris