Progressive Era

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

What anti monopoly law made all"combinations, contracts, and conspiracies" that restrained free trade illegal (1890)?

• Interstate Commerce Act

• Sherman Antitrust Act

• Clayton Antitrust Act

• Keller-Cefauver Act

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

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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A period of time when social, economic and political problems caused by rapid industrialization were exposed and in some cases reformed.

What is the most likely title for this?

• Industrialization

• Progressive Era

• Reconstruction

• Prohibition

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

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

Between 1860 and 1910, the U.S. population tripled in size.

This is most likely due to...

• The Baby Boom

• Immigration

• The Homestead Act

• Better Healthcare

The group of laws that granted basic rights to former slaves

• 13th, 14th and 15th amendments

• 15th, 16th and 17th amendments

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