Progressive Era

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

Made it illegal to create trusts and monopolies

• Sherman Antitrust Act
• Sherman Antimonopoly Act
• Sherman Shortly Act
• Sherman No Business Act

The banning of alcohol.

• Institution
• Referendum
• Principal
• Prohibition

In The Jungle, Upton Sinclair exposed

• Dangers faced by coal miners
• Corrupt business practices of the Standard Oil Company
• Unsanitary conditions in the meat-packing industry
• Illegal deals between special interests and the government

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Which of the following best states the goal of prohibitionists?

• To eliminate the sale of alcohol to children
• To eliminate the use of alcohol in society
• To reduce accidents in the workplace
• To reduce the availability of alcohol to minors

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

The Sherman anti-trust act was passed to

• break up monopolies
• give equal rights to women
• help people living in poverty
• end racism

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CCSS.RI.8.5

What was the Progressive Movement?

• A period with a shift from making things by hand to making things with machines

• A period of large scale immigration to the US

• A period of economic decline & agriculture hardships

• A period of social and political reform in the US

smugglers of illegal alcohol during the Prohibition era

• pirates

• criminals

• bootleggers

• suffragettes