Progressive Era Vocab. Quiz

Suffrage refers to:

• Discrimination
• Women’s Rights
• The Right To Vote
• The Denial of Voting

Banned people from making, drinking or selling alcohol

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

What amendment provided suffrage for women (1920)?

• 16th
• 17th
• 18th
• 19th

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 

During the early 1900s, the term "muckrakers" was used to describe-

• pacifists who demonstrated against war

• Politicians who criticized Progressive Era presidents

• Writers who exposed the evil in American society

• Newspaper columnists who reported in celebrities

Jacob Riis exposed problems with the meat-packing industry in the book _______

• The Social Gospel

• How the Other Half Lives

• The Jungle

• The Octopus

People like Upton Sinclair were ___________________ because they investigated and exposed abuse and corruption.

• Supporters of Political Machines

• Nativists

• Muckrakers

• Industialists

What organization did W.E.B. Dubois establish to help secure legal equality for minorities?

• Muckrakers Movement

• Black Panthers

• NAACP

• SNCC