Progressive Era & Segregation

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

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

Which former slave advocated for African Americans to take on industrial jobs and earn the respect of white America with hard work ?

• WEB Du Bois

• Marcus Garvey

• Booker T. Washington

• Nat Turner

Which Progressive President used the bully pulpit and was known as a Trust buster for breaking up monopolies?

• Teddy Roosevelt

• Taft

• Woodrow Wilson

• Luke Skywalker

Which of the following is an initiative?

• People have the right to remove a politician from office
• People have the right to choose who will run for President
• People have the right to propose a new law
• People have the right to veto or accept a law passed by the government

Which of the following is a Referendum?

• People have the right to remove an elected official from office

• People have the right to choose who will run for President

• People have the right to propose their own law

• People get to vote on proposed new laws

Which of the following is a Recall?

• People have the right to choose who will run for President

• People have the right to force a re-election of a politician they think is corrupt

• People have the right to propose a new law

• People have the right to vote on any law passed by their government for approval/veto

 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