Progressive Age

What do we call the crowded buildings that the poor (esp. immigrants) lived in?

• Tent cities

• Shanty towns

• Colonias

• Tenements

What effect did Upton Sinclair's book The Jungle have?

• He was attacked by the meatpacking industry leaders in the press as a liar and communist

• The meatpacking plants admitted they were wrong and would improve working conditions

• Nothing; everyone ignored it

• Congress passed the Pure Food and Drug Act

Which Constitutional amendment gave women the right to vote?

• 16th

• 17th

• 18th

• 19th

What is the term for investigative writers and journalists who tried to expose bad working conditions and political corruption?

• Muckrakers

• Troublemakers

• Outside agitators

• Scabs

Which amendment prohibited the sale of "intoxicating liquors"?

• 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 to regulate our food?

• Jacob Riis

• Lewis Hines

• Ida Tarbell

• Upton Sinclair

Who was the person who founded the settlement house (Hull House) for the Assimilation and Americanization of the immigrant poor?

• Elixabeth Cady Stanton
• Jane Addams
• Susan B. Anthony
• Belle Starr

Which Progressive President is known for being a trust buster, conservationist, and implementing the square deal?

• Teddy Roosevelt

• William Taft

• Woodrow Wilson

• Franklin Roosevelt

During the Progressive Era, many reformers/muckrakers were trying to solve:

• the dust bowl during the 1930s

• the reconstruction after the Civil War

• the economic crash of the late 1800s

• the problems and corruption caused by industrialization in the Gilded Age

Founder of Hull House

• Ida B. Wells
• Booker T. Washington
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Jane Addams