Progressive Era and Imperialism Retest

Reporters, journalists, photographers, and authors who used the media to raise concerns about the negative effects of industrialization were known as

• muckrakers
• suffragists
• immigrants
• abolitionists

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Progressive reformers, or muckrakers  known for taking photographs to expose unsafe or unsanitary conditions

• Ida Tarbell and Upton Sinclair
• WEB DuBois and Booker T Washington
• Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine
• Alice Paul and Carrie Catt

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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Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is credited with exposing the unsanitary conditions in the food industry and helping to pass the

• Sherman Anti-Trust Act
• 18th Amendment
• Pure Food and Drug Act
• Equal Rights Amendment

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What amendment provided suffrage for women (1920)?

• 16th
• 17th
• 18th
• 19th

Who wrote the expose piece of literature that revealed the extensive corrupt monopolistic business practices of Standard Oil?

• Ida Tarbell
• Lewis Hines 
• Jacob Riis
• 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

Which Progressive President used Big Stick Diplomacy and was known as a Trust buster?

• Teddy Roosevelt
• Taft
• Woodrow Wilson
• Luke Skywalker

Which of the following is an initiative?

• People have the right to remove a politician from office
• People have the right to choose who will run for President
• People have the right to propose a new law
• People have the right to veto or accept a law passed by the government

Key Reforms of the Progressive Era
·  Initiative
·  Referendum
·  Recall
·  Direct Primary
·  17^th Amendment

 How did the reforms listed above impact America?

• A system of separate schools for new immigrants
• They gave citizens a greater voice in the democratic process of government
• More sources of revenue and taxes in state governments.
• They successfully brought economic relief to the urban working class