Progressive Era

What amendment provided suffrage for women (1920)?

• 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?

• 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

This person helped to found the NAACP

• Ida B Wells
• Booker T Washington
• W E B DuBois
• Martin Luther King Jr.

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

1906- Wrote The Jungle which exposed the conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry. (Helped pass the Pure Food and Drug Act) 

• Upton Sinclair 
• Lincoln Steffens 
• Jacob Riis 
• Frank Norris 

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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

What was an important effect of the influx of people from the country to the cities in the late nineteenth century?

• a sharp increase in college enrollment
• crowded slums and unsanitary conditions
• decline in economic growth
•  a large amount of unused farmland

New immigrants arriving on the East coast gained admission at 

• Angel Island 
• Ellis Island 
• Boston Harbor
• Charleston Island