2019 Progressive Era 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

What was the purpose of Muckrakers?

• Writers who wanted to make money by selling newspapers
• Writers who wanted to cause change with their writings
• Writers who supported big business and corruption in politics
• Writers who wrote patriotic short stories

Suffrage refers to:

• Discrimination
• Women’s Rights
• The Right To Vote
• The Denial of Voting

The founder of the NAACP who encouraged African Americans to fight to end segregation

• Booker T. Washington
• George Washington Carver
• WEB Dubois
• Upton Sinclair

Banned people from making, drinking or selling alcohol

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

What amendment provided suffrage for women (1920)?

• 16th
• 17th
• 18th
• 19th

The 17th Amendment gave people the right to vote for their ______ directly.

• President
• Vice President
• Senators
• House Representatives

Jane Addams founded Hull House to... 

• force Native American children to learn English. 
• Help poor immigrant women and children in Chicago to adapt to American life. 
• House African Americans leaving the South. 
• Hold meetings for the Christian Women's Temperance Movement

Which of the following women got arrested for trying to vote?

• Hillary Clinton
• Susan B. Anthony
• Martha Washington
• Rosa Parks

William Jennings Bryan famous speech against the gold standard in the 1896 election was

• The "Cross of Gold" speech
• "Bimettalism Now!" speech
• "Gold Standard Forever" speech
• "Wizard of Oz" speech