US History - Progressive Era Test

Who wrote "The Jungle"?

• Upton Sinclair

• Jacob Riis

• Ida Tarbell

• 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

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

This person helped to found the NAACP

• Ida B Wells

• Booker T. Washington

• W.E.B. Du Bois

• Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Which list of Progressive Era presidents is in the correct chronological order by when each served

• Woodrow Wilson

  Teddy Roosevelt

  Howard Taft

• Howard Taft

  Woodrow Wilson

  Teddy Roosevelt

• Teddy Roosevelt

  Howard Taft

  Woodrow Wilson

• Woodrow Wilson

  Howard Taft

  Teddy Roosevelt

Which of the following was one effect of the Progressive Era political reforms of initiative, referendum, and recall

• Judicial authority expanding to included administering local elections

• Government officials responding to the needs of voters more readily

• Women and minorities increasing participation in political process

• Political machines gaining greater influence in local elections and politics

The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 created a central banking system in the United States with the responsibility of ~

• collecting of federal income taxes

• managing of interstate commerce

• enforcing of the Sherman Anti-trust legislation

• regulating of monetary policy in the United States