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

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

Writers that dig up the bad things going on in society

• Suffragists
• Muckrakers
• Students
• Chaffinators

17th Amendment-

• Banned sale, distribution and manufacture of alcohol
• required direct election of US Senators
• established the Income Tax
• Gave women suffrage rights

Prohibition banned the making, selling, buying, or drinking of alcohol. Which amendment made this possible?

• 17th Amendment

• 18th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

• 21st Amendment

The purpose of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act was to

• break up monopolies

• give equal rights to women

• help people living in poverty

• end racism

Jim Crow laws were laws that

• denied citizenship to Asian immigrants.
• promoted discrimination against women
• separated the races
• taxed voters

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

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