Progressive Era

What amendment provided suffrage for women (1920)?

• 16th
• 17th
• 18th
• 19th

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

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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

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 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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Writers that dig up the bad things going on in society

• Suffragists
• Muckrakers
• Students
• Chaffinators

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To preserve water, trees, plants, and other natural resources

• Precipitation
• Confurion
• Conservation
• Infusion

___________ was a muckraker who wrote ¨The Jungle¨.

• Booker T. Washington

• Susan B. Anthony

• Upton Sinclair

¨Suffrage¨ is:

• the right to vote

• disenfranchisement

• a terrible condition

What were the goals of the Progressives? 

• Make society more fair and democratic 
• Reduce the corruption in the economy and political system 
• To help solve the problems that were brought about by rapid industrialization 
• All of the above 

How did Woodrow Wilson win the 1912 election?

• voter fraud
• big business backed him as they thought he was similar to McKinley and the rest of the "forgotten presidents"
• Teddy Roosevelt's Bull Moose Party split Republican voters, making an easy win for the Democrats
• Though he lost the popular vote, his narrow margin of victory in key states allowed him to win in the Electoral College