Gilded Age / Progressive Era

What amendment provided suffrage for women (1920)?

• 16th
• 17th
• 18th
• 19th

Whose book led to the direct passage of the Meat Inspection Act and indirect of the Pure Food and Drug Acts to regulate our food?

• Jacob Riis

• Lewis Hines

• Ida Tarbell

• Upton Sinclair

Who was the person who founded the settlement house (Hull House) for the Assimilation and Americanization of the immigrant poor?

• Elixabeth Cady Stanton
• Jane Addams
• Susan B. Anthony
• Belle Starr

Who advocated for African Americans to focus on vocational training to gradually gain equal rights in the US?

• WEB Du Bois

• Marcus Garvey

• Booker T. Washington

• Nat Turner

Which Progressive President is known for being a trust buster, conservationist, and implementing the square deal?

• Teddy Roosevelt

• William Taft

• Woodrow Wilson

• Franklin Roosevelt

Which long-awaited goal of the women’s rights movement was achieved during the Progressive Era?

•    the right to vote
•   the right to own property
•    equal pay for equal work
• equal access to employment and education

 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

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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

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 direct democracy