Progressive Era Review

Book by Upton Sinclair that led to more regulation of food by the government?

• Pride and Prejudice
• Red Badge of Courage
• The Jungle
• Capital

Who helped immigrants assimilate by creating Settlement Houses in Chicago?

• Susan B Anthony
• Ida Wells
• Francis Willard
• Jane Addams

How did Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle contribute to a change in the relationship between government and business?

• government worked to end child labor

• federal troops ended Coal Strike

• increased food regulations

• break up of railroad monopolies

Key Reforms of the Progressive Era
·  Initiative
·  Referendum
·  Recall
·  Direct Primary
·  17^th Amendment

 How did the reforms listed above impact America?

• A system of separate schools for new immigrants
• They gave citizens a greater voice in the democratic process of government
• More sources of revenue and taxes in state governments.
• They successfully brought economic relief to the urban working class

To preserve water, trees, plants, and other natural resources

• Precipitation
• Confurion
• Conservation
• Infusion

Which act was rushed to Congress and passed shortly after the publication of Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle in 1906? 

• Federal Reserve Act
• Clayton Antitrust Act
• Australian Ballot Act
• Meat Inspection Act

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

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

A bill that originates from the people rather than legislators is known as what? Example of these is like the bills on the White House website:

• A Recall
• An Initiative
• A Referendum
• An Amendment

A period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States that spanned the 1890s to the 1920s.

• Gilded Age

• Westward Expansion

• Manifest Destiny

• Progressive Era

The direct election of senators is the result of

• 16th Amendment

• 17th Amendment

• 18th Amendment

• 19th Amendment