Progressive Era

Upton Sinclair’s 1906 The Jungle led to –

• Passage of the Endangered Species Act

• Establishment of the National Park Service

• Efforts to clean up cities and city government

• The nation’s first pure food and drug laws

The Progressive Era was characterized by

• The rush to settle the western frontier

• The advancement of civil rights for African Americans

• Major political, social, and economic reforms

• Bread lines and bank failures

Ida B. Wells worked to reform US society by

• Gaining public support for the temperance movement

• leading a crusade against lynching

• Founding the National American Woman Suffrage Association

• Helping to establish the Populist Party

What was the purpose of the Nineteenth Amendment?

• To prohibit the sale of alcohol

• To grant women the right to vote

• To expand voting rights for racial minorities

• To establish the poll tax

Jane Addams contributed most to Progressivism by -

• Supporting the emerging philosophy of Social Darwinism

• Promoting social reform on American Indian reservations

• Forming the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

• Spreading the Settlement House movement by founding Hull House

Those demands most reflected the concerns of

• Small farmers in need of affordable credit

• Robber barons pursuing higher profits

• Prominent bankers who controlled the money supply

• Immigrant workers seeking economic justice

These lyrics are representative of a movement that culminated in a constitutional amendment during the –

• Harlem Renaissance

• New Deal

• Reconstruction Era

• Progressive Era

How did the initiative, referendum, and recall change the U.S. political system?

• By making the president more responsive in Congress

• By increasing citizen participation in government

• By giving parties more control over the electoral process

• By increasing the influence of the media on elections

American women gained these privileges as a result of -

• The Temperance Movement

• The work of W.E.B DuBois

• Social Darwinism

• The work of Susan B. Anthony

The Progressive goal to implement women’s suffrage was accomplished by -

• A national referendum

• An executive order

• A Supreme Court decision

• A constitutional amendment