Progressive Era

When was the Progressive Era?

• Antebellum

• 1865-1877

• 1890s-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

What anti monopoly law made all"combinations, contracts, and conspiracies" that restrained free trade illegal (1890)?

• Interstate Commerce Act
• Sherman Antitrust Act
• Clayton Antitrust Act
• Keller-Cefauver Act

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

17th Amendment-

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

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. . . ."-19th Amendment, United States Constitution 
Which group of women worked for the passage of this amendment?

• Harriet Tubman, Jane Addams, and Dorothea Dix
• Susan B. Anthony, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Alice Paul
• Madeline Albright, Geraldine Ferraro, and Sandra Day O’Connor
• Clara Barton, Amelia Earhart, and Eleanor Roosevelt

What was an important effect of the influx of people from the country to the cities in the late nineteenth century?

• a sharp increase in college enrollment
• crowded slums and unsanitary conditions
• decline in economic growth
•  a large amount of unused farmland

Jim Crow laws were laws that

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

In the case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that

• lynching was a federal crime.
• school segregation was unconstitutional.
• voting rights could not be tied to any form of tax.
• racial segregation in public facilities was legal.