C5 Progressive Era

Southern states restricted the voting rights of blacks by enacting

• literacy tests
• grandfather clause
• poll taxes
• all of the above

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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CCSS.RL.8.9

This event was one major factor leading to the need for building codes and government regulation of businesses

• Haymarket Riot
• Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
• founding of the Tuskegee Institute
• attempted assassination of President Garfield

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

• Industrialization
• Progressive Era
• Reconstruction
• Prohibition

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CCSS.RL.8.9

Prohibition began with the 

• 15th Amendment
• 17th Amendment
• 18th Amendment
• 21st Amendment

Progressive reformers, or muckrakers  known for taking photographs to expose unsafe or unsanitary conditions

• Ida Tarbell and Upton Sinclair
• WEB DuBois and Booker T Washington
• Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine
• Alice Paul and Carrie Catt

Suffragists included

• Alice Paul
• Susan B Anthony
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• All of the above

Many progressive reformers fought for equal rights including

• Susan B Anthony and WEB DuBois
• Carrie Catt and Upton Sinclair
• Booker T Washington and Teddy Roosevelt
• Ida Tarbell and Lincoln Steffens

Amendment that gave women the right to vote

• 15th
• 17th
• 18th
• 19th

The Sherman anti-trust act was passed to

• break up monopolies
• give equal rights to women
• help people living in poverty
• end racism

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CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5