Neely's Progressive Era Quiz 2019, Part 2

One of the most important laws for the progressive cause was known as the Sherman Antitrust Act. Roosevelt and Taft would use this law to begin to rein in the power of trusts to choke out economic competition. This law:

• Allowed state governments to regulate railroad and communications rates

• Gave the federal government the power to dissolve (bust) trusts which were designed to create monopolies

• Required the government to shut down companies which could not be trusted

The Interstate Commerce Act was a response to;

• Unfair business practices in the railroad industry

• Unsanitary conditions in meat packing plants

• The rapid growth of labor unions

• The need for a national highway system

Which groups played an important role in the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act?

• Cowboys and Indians

• Bankers and Labor Unions

• Farmers and Miners

• Muckrakers and women's groups

Booker T. Washington:

• Founded the NAACP

• Advocated vocational training for African-Americans

• Demanded immediate racial equality

• Agreed with W.E.B. DuBois about the best path forward to advance the rights of African-Americans

"How the Other Half Lives" was a book written by Jacob Riis which illustrated the squalid living and working conditions faced by the nation's poor, many of whom were immigrants, during the Gilded Age.

• True

• False

Which Amendment to the US Constitution gave women the right to vote (suffrage)?

• 16th

• 17th

• 18th

• 19th

Ida B. Wells

• Wrote about the horrors of lynching

• She helped form organizations which worked for racial equality for all

• Worked to bring about female suffrage

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Andrew Carnegie, like all so-called robber barons, support the development of large powerful corporations and the formation of trusts. Eventually the government responded to the growing power of businesses by:

• Outlawing insider trading

• Banning labor unions

• Prohibiting monopolies

• Bailing out large corporations during times of economic crisis

In 1848, a gathering in Seneca Falls declared that women should not be denied the "elective franchise". What does "elective franchise" mean?

• Suffrage

• The right to vote

• Full participation in the democratic process

• All of the answers listed here are correct