Progressive Era

Which law was passed as a result of muckraking literature of Upton Sinclair?

• Meat Inspection Act
• Sherman Anti-Trust Act
• Federal Reserve Act
• Interstate Commerce Act

Which goal, set a a women's convention in Seneca Falls in 1848, was finally achieved during the Progressive Era?

• passage of the Food and Drug Act
• creation of the Interstate Commerce Commission
• adoption of a graduated income tax
• ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment

"In slave times, the Negro was kept subservient and submissive by the frequency and severity of the scouraging [whipping], but with freedom, a new system of intimidation came into vogue; the Negro as not only scourged; he was lynched." 

The above quotation most closely represented the views held by -

• William Jennings Bryan
• Ida B Wells
• Upton Sinclair
• Susan B Anthony

How were the Interstate Commerce Act, the Sherman Antitrust Act and the Clayton Antitrust Act similar

• They authorized the breakup of labor unions
• They rejected the use of trust-busting strategies
• They increased the federal government's power to regulate business practices
• They reaffirmed the federal government's laissez-faire attitude toward big business

During the Progressive Era, many state and local governments adopted the initiative, referendum, and recall. Together these procedures -

• extended the righ to vote to 18-year old citizens
• gave citizens a more direct voice in government
• let registered voters select each state's Presidential electors
• allowed a state's residents to bring lawsuits against another state

The peoples chance to vote on their parties candidate, instead of it being appointed.

• Direct Primary

• Referedum

• 19th Amendment

• 21st Amendment

This organization helps fight to end discrimination against different races

• NSA
• WCTU
• NAACP
• RESPECT

Writers that dig up the bad things going on in society

• Suffragists
• Muckrakers
• Students
• Chaffinators

Campaign to stop abuse in the homes by urging people and the government to stop alcoholism.

• Women Suffrage
• Temperance Movement
• Alcoholics Anonymous
• Fair Weather Fan

The founder of the NAACP who encouraged African Americans to fight to end segregation

• Booker T. Washington
• George Washington Carver
• WEB Dubois
• Upton Sinclair