US 11A- The Progressive Era

In which way did Jacob Riis work for social reform?

• by preaching the social gospel

• by establishing settlement houses

• by photographing tenement buildings where the urban poor live

• by writing naturalist novels about the miserable living & working conditions of immigrants

The reformers at Hull House

• resisted Americanization efforts

• traveled around the nation preaching social gospel

• deterred women from pursuing jobs outside the home

• provided daycare, kindergarten, & adult classes for the urban poor

In March 1911, many workers at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory died in a fire because

• managers had locked most of the doors

• the factory did not have windows

• the fire resulted from a sudden explosion & spread too quickly

• the fire department did not respond to the emergency

The National Consumers League

• regulated the interstate food trade

• distributed informatino about women's health and birth control

• gave spcial labels to "goods produced under fair, sage & healthy working conditions."

• instigated the first wokers' strike for families who refused to work in unsafe, unfair conditions

The Women's Christian Temperance Union

• raised funds to set up day-care centers

• campaigned to prohibit the production and sale of alcohol

• resisted the distrubution of infomation about birth control

• organized factory workers into trade unions

Who did Carrie Chapman Catt succeed as the president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association?

• Susan B. Anthony

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Nina Otero-Warren

• Maud Younger

The National Woman's Party

• opposed using civil disobedience to deman suffrage

• worked cooperatively with the NAWSA to gain suffrage

• used more drastic methods than other groups to fight for suffrage

• credited the NAWSA with the passage of the 19th Amerndment

The 19th Amendment, which Congress approved in 1919

• made it illegal for employers to disciminate against women

• put an end to prohibition

• gave women the right to vote

• forced schools to look at racial background when accepting studets

In which of the followin examples did Presidnet Wilson not support organized labor?

• the Ludlow miners' strike in 1913

• the passage of the Clayton Antitrust Act in 1914

• the passage or the Workingan's COmpensation Act in 1916

• the prevention of a nationwide railroad strike in 1916

Which government body created during the Progressive Era now regulates buying on the internet?

• Federal Trade Commission

• Federal Reserve Board

• Food and Drug Administration

• National Consumers League