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The Progressive Era

Authored by Kimberly Finck

History

11th - 12th Grade

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What Term originated from a speech given by President Theodore Roosevelt in which he praised journalists for their role in uncovering corruption and problems often hidden from society.

Socialists

Muckrackers

Progressivism

Reformers

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Whose book titled "The Jungle" 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

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

As a result of the public outcry created by The Jungle, the United States government passed the Meat Inspection Act. The new law set cleanliness standards that had to be followed by meat processing facilities. What was the name of the new Federal Agency Developed as a result?

The Department of Homeland Security

The Department of Agriculture

The Food and Drug Administration

The Environmental Protection Agency

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

____________?____________


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

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

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He was a New York photojournalist who documented the living conditions of the urban poor. His work, How the Other Half Lives (1890), exposed the unhealthy tenement housing that workers and families were forced to live in

Jacob Riis

Woodrow Wilson

William Sherman

Florence Kelley

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who was the person who founded the settlement house (Hull House) for the Assimilation and Americanization of the immigrant poor?

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Jane Addams

Susan B. Anthony

Belle Starr

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