Progressive Era Assessment Review

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.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Prohibition began with the 

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

Amendment that gave women the right to vote

• 15th
• 17th
• 18th
• 19th

Who wrote about and exposed the corrupt monopolistic business practices of Standard Oil?

• Ida Tarbell
• Lewis Hines 
• Jacob Riis
• Upton Sinclair

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CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

In The Jungle, Upton Sinclair exposed

• Dangers faced by coal miners
• Corrupt business practices of the Standard Oil Company
• Unsanitary conditions in the meat-packing industry
• Illegal deals between special interests and the government

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CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.K.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Which idea of Theodore Roosevelt’s led to the creation of National Parks?

• Meat Inspection Act
• Preservation
• Conservation
• Intimidation

Writers that dig up the bad things going on in society

• Suffragists
• Muckrakers
• Students
• Chaffinators

Progressive President who was endorsed originally by Roosevelt (who later runs against him), busted more trusts than Roosevelt bringing 90 anti-trust lawsuits against monopolies and corrupt businesses:

• William H. Taft
• Woodrow Wilson
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Chester A. Arthur

Which amendment allowed the government to collect income taxes?

• 16

• 17

• 18

• 19

I created the modern banking system by the establishment of the federal reserve system.

• Roosevelt
• Wilson 
• Taft