Progressive Era

When was the Progressive Era?

• Antebellum
• 1865-1877
• 1900-1920
• 1933-1945

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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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

Which Progressive President used Big Stick Diplomacy and was known as a Trust buster?

• Teddy Roosevelt
• Taft
• Woodrow Wilson
• Luke Skywalker

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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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This was created to allow women to vote nationally

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

Who was the photographer who revealed to the world how the lower class lived?

• Alexander Bell
• Jacob Riis
• Upton Sinclair
• Theodore Roosevelt

Writers that dig up the bad things going on in society

• Suffragists
• Muckrakers
• Students
• Chaffinators

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This banker developed the U.S. Steel Company and became the 1st businessman to earn $1 billion.

• J. P. Morgan

• Abraham Lincoln

• Henry Ford

• Uncle Sam

Labor Unions aimed at which of the following?

• shortening the work day

• higher wages

• end child labor

• All of the above