Progressive Era

Plessey vs Ferguson

• desegregation

• segregated facilities/separate but equal

• right to vote

• right to speak

President Theodore Roosevelt is known for

• conservation/forest protection/national parks

• being rude

• creating voting rights

• digging the Eerie Canal

Big Progressive Era reform was

• ranching

• Indian territories

• direct election of senators

• direct election of president

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair dealt with

• child labor

• women's labor

• women voting

• poor sanitation and conditions in meat packing industry

The book The Jungle, about the meat packing industry, led to the

• close of bread plants

• Meat Packing Act of 1906

• new child labor laws

• women's suffrage

Who wrote about Standard Oil?

• Riis

• Sinclair

• Adams

• Tarbell

Riis, Sinclair, and Tarbell were all ___________

• senators

• congressmen

• muckrakers

• women

In the ______________ ___________________, government became more responsible for the needs of people.

• Suffrage Era

• Immigrant Era

• Gold Rush

• Progressive Era

________________ started the NAACP.

• Sinclair

• Adams

• Riis

• Dubois

Jane Adams started Hull House to ____________

• immigrants

• senators

• Indians

• presidents