Progressive Era

When was the Progressive Era?

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

Whose book caused the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act to be passed?

• Upton Sinclair
• Lincoln Steffens
• Ida Tarbell
• Jacob Riis

Writers that dig up the bad things going on in society

• Suffragists
• Muckrakers
• Students
• Chaffinators

Made it illegal to create trusts and monopolies

• Sherman Antitrust Act
• Sherman Antimonopoly Act
• Sherman Shortly Act
• Sherman No Business Act

Which act was rushed to Congress and passed shortly after the publication of Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle in 1906? 

• Federal Reserve Act
• Clayton Antitrust Act
• Australian Ballot Act
• Meat Inspection Act

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

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

Which was NOT a problem encountered by factory workers?

• Long hours
• Pay for working overtime hours
• Unsafe working hours
• Low wages

In the book The Jungle, Upton Sinclair described the horrors of the

•  child labor.
  
• social inequality.
  
• public housing.
  
• meatpacking industry.
  

What were the negative effects of industrialization?

• more jobs, urbanization, and inventions

• Child labor, low pay, long hours, unsafe conditions

A change for the better

• Strike
• Arbitration
• Reform
• Primary