Progressive Era Assessment #1

Writers that dig up the bad things going on in society

• Suffragists
• Muckrakers
• Students
• Chaffinators

Who was the photographer who revealed to the world how the lower class lived?

• Alexander Bell
• Jacob Riis
• Upton Sinclair
• Theodore Roosevelt

Muckrakers were

• progressive reformers who sought legal changes to problems
• politicians who passed laws cleaning up the "muck" in society
• governors who wanted to get rid of monopolies
• journalists who wrote about the problems in society

Book written by Jacob Riis

• How the Other Half Lives

• The Jungle

• History of Standard Oil

• McClure's Magazine

Exposed corruption through political cartoons

• Jacob Riis

• Florence Kelley

• Thomas Nast

• Lewis Hine

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

Who was the boss of New York's Tammany Hall, which defrauded NYC out of millions of dollars? 

• Boss Tweed
• Boss Nast
• Boss Cleveland
• Boss Marconi

Thomas Nast's political cartoons led to this political boss going to jail.

• Boss Tweed

• Boss Riis

• Boss Sinclair

• Boss Carnegie

Which president wanted to control businesses and conserve the environment?

• William McKinley

• Abraham Lincoln

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Franklin D. Roosevelt