8214 Progressive Era Quiz (Part II)

Journalists who exposed practices of monopolies and big business

• Gump Mushers
• Muckrakers
• Scalawags
• Dirt Diggers

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CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Subject of How the Other Half Lives

• Problems faced by those living in the inner city, such as poverty and poor living conditions

• Haphazard practiced in Chicago meat packing plants, such as rats running along the meat

• Political corruption in big cities where politicians were more concerned with profit and politics

• Abuses on farmers committed by the railroad company

Legislation enacted as a result of "How the Other Half Lives

• Pure Food & Drug Act

• Tenement Housing Act

• 17th Amendment

• 18th Amendment

Subject of The Jungle

• Problems such as poverty faced by people in the cities

• Abuses of the railroad company on farmers

• Horrible practices in Chicago Meat packing plants, such as rats on meat

• Political corruption in major cities

Legislation enacted as a result of the "The Jungle"

• Pure Food & Drug Act

• Tenement Housing Act

• 17th Amendment

• 21st Amendment

Which statement best represents the events in the picture?

• Women wanted the president to support equal rights and the right to vote for females.
• Women wanted the U.S. president to back labor unions.
• Women did not like the president’s approach to civil rights.
• Women protested for homeless women and demanded equal job opportunities.

Which amendment gave women the right to vote?

• 19th
• 18th
• 15th
• 13th

Those opposed to women suffrage believed that women were childlike and incapable of independent thought.

• TRUE
• FALSE

Which of the following BEST explains the purpose of the Jim Crow system?

• Keep public facilities cleaner

• keep African-Americans as second-class citizens

• keep the races pure

• keep African-Americans from voting

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

American reformer and leader in the anti-lynching crusade and women’s suffrage movement.

• Jane Addams 
• Susan B. Anthony 
• Ida B. Wells 
• Ida Tarbell