Progressive Era Review

How did muckrakers provide a service to society?

• They called for a stronger military

• They explored abuses by government and big business

• They called for less government regulations

• They encouraged segregation

What did the book The Jungle written by Upton Sinclair lead to?

• Prohibition

• Labor Union Strikes

• Meat Inspection Act

• National Park System

How did Jane Addams respond to urban poverty?

• She advocated for immigration restriction

• She wrote about the conditions in newspapers

• She created free public schools

• She founded settlement houses to assist the poor

Theodore Roosevelt believed that the government should what?

• Regulate abusive business practices

• Take over control of trusts

• leave regulation of businesses to the states

• Take bribes from monopolies

Initiative, referendum, and recall resulted in what?

• separate schools for new immigrants

• direct participation in the democratic process by citizens

• state funding for schools

• income tax on wealthy

What idea do the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Interstate Commerce Act have in common?

• businesses must be regulated to protect people

• workers should be allowed to form labor unions

• war should be avoided at all times

• foreign competition must be eliminated

Which amendment granted women's suffrage?

• 18th

• 19th

• 20th

• 21st

Which agency was created to conserve natural resources?

• Bureau of Reclamation

• US Geological Survey

• US Border Patrol

• National Park Service

How did Booker T. Washington work to improve the lives of African Americans

• by organizing voter registration drives

• by forming labor unions for colored people

• by promoting vocational training for African Americans

• by organizing boycotts of business that refused service to blacks

Which of the following is true about W.E.B. DuBois?

• He accepted Jim Crow Laws

• He supported the Back to Africa Movement

• He believed in black separatism

• He founded the NAACP