Progressive Era

When was the Progressive Era?

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

What amendment provided suffrage for women (1920)?

• 16th
• 17th
• 18th
• 19th

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

This person helped to found the NAACP

• Ida B Wells
• Booker T Washington
• W E B DuBois
• Martin Luther King Jr.

Writers that dig up the bad things going on in society

• Suffragists
• Muckrakers
• Students
• Chaffinators

Banned people from making, drinking or selling alcohol

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

1906- Wrote The Jungle which exposed the conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry. (Helped pass the Pure Food and Drug Act) 

• Upton Sinclair 
• Lincoln Steffens 
• Jacob Riis 
• Frank Norris 

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17th Amendment-

• Banned sale, distribution and manufacture of alcohol
• required direct election of US Senators
• established the Income Tax
• Gave women suffrage rights

How did the publication of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle contribute to a change in the relationship between government and business?

• Federal troops were mobilized to break strikes by labor unions.
• Government regulations requiring the inspection of food products were implemented.
• Congress created a regulatory agency to audit railroads.
• Laws were enacted that banned private companies from discriminating when hiring.

Jim Crow laws were laws that

• denied citizenship to Asian immigrants.
• promoted discrimination against women
• separated the races
• taxed voters