Immigration, Industrialization, & Progressive Era

What amendment provided suffrage for women (1920)?

• 16th

• 17th

• 18th

• 19th

Upton Sinclair's book, The Jungle, caused the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act to be passed because of condition in _______?

• Chicago

• Pittsburgh

• Santa Fe

• Atlanta

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 banning of alcohol.

• Institution
• Referendum
• Principal
• Prohibition

What were photographs such as this one taken by Lewis Hine primarily intended to accomplish?

• Encourage leaders to make segregation in schools illegal

• Document labor conditions during an economic crisis

• Depict the evils of capitalism in communist propaganda

• Focus attention on the need for child labor reforms

The Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor (AFL) developed in response to the —

• increased need to protect worker interests

• decreased power of political machines

• increased demand for skilled workers

• decreased profitability of the agricultural sector

Which of these was a major goal of Jane Addams’s Settlement House movement in Chicago?

• The founding of women’s colleges

• The introduction of prison reform

• The assimilation of immigrants

• The establishment of public libraries

What was the effects of labor laws?

• Ended child labor, funds for unemployed workers, increased teacher’s salary

• Ended child labor, 8 hour work day, and set minimum wage for women

• Ended child labor, increased work hours to 18 hours, decreased women’s wages

• Ended child labor, increased male wages, increased vacation pay

What was the Progressive Movement?

• A period with a shift from making things by hand to making things with machines

• A period of large scale immigration to the US

• A period of economic decline & agriculture hardships

• A period of social and political reform in the US

What is the purpose of a labor union?

• Organization made up of workers to protect them in the workplace

• Organization made up of business owners to make rules for employees

• Organization of women who fought for the right to vote

• Organization of farmers who work together to improve farming techniques