Progressive Era

When was the Progressive Era?

• Antebellum
• 1865-1877
• 1900-1920
• 1933-1945

What amendment provided suffrage for women (1920)?

• 16th
• 17th
• 18th
• 19th

Who wrote the expose piece of literature that revealed the extensive corrupt monopolistic business practices of Standard Oil?

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

Whose book led to the direct passage of the Meat Inspection Act and indirect of the Pure Food and Drug Acts?

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

Writers that dig up the bad things going on in society

• Suffragists
• Muckrakers
• Students
• Chaffinators

Banned people from making, drinking or selling alcohol

• 17th Amendment
• 18th Amendment
• 19th Amendment
• 21st Amendment

1906- Wrote The Jungle which exposed the conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry. (Helped pass the Pure Food and Drug Act) 

• Upton Sinclair 
• Lincoln Steffens 
• Jacob Riis 
• Frank Norris 

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Between 1848 and 1920, suffragists protested for women to have the right to vote.

Which amendment guaranteed women this right in the United States?

• 16th

• 17th

• 18th

• 19th

Roosevelt’s Square Deal refers to:

• Fair treatment of people in society
• Using the government’s power to help citizens
• Settling issues for the betterment of society
• All of the above

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Which of the following best states the goal of prohibitionists?

• To eliminate the sale of alcohol to children
• To eliminate the use of alcohol in society
• To reduce accidents in the workplace
• To reduce the availability of alcohol to minors