Progressive Era

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

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

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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The Jungle exposed unsanitary and unsafe practices in the meatpacking industry.

Which muckraker is responsible for exposing the conditions?

• Jacob Riis

• Lewis Hines

• Ida Tarbell

• 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

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

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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