The Progressive Era

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

Who played a huge role in improving the lives of the urban poor, especially immigrant women and children who were forced by circumstances to work and live in dangerous and unhealthy conditions?

• Jane Addams

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Belle Starr

• Susan B. Anthony

What is Women's Suffrage?

• equal rights for women in the workforce

• Independence for Women

• Women's right to vote

• The name of a protest lead by women

What amendment provided suffrage for women (1920)?

• 16th
• 17th
• 18th
• 19th