Progressive Era Quiz

The issue addressed by this poster is primarily associated with the --

• Progressive Era

• Great Depression

• Roaring Twenties

• Cold War

Journalists who exposed the corrupt side of business and public life in the early 1900s.

• Senators
• Muckrakers
• Abolitionists
• None of the above

Wrote "The Jungle", that portrays the dangerous and unhealthy conditions prevalent in the meat packing industry at that time.

• Ida B. Wells
• Ida Tarbell
• Jacob Riis
• Upton Sinclair

What anti monopoly law made all"combinations, contracts, and conspiracies" that restrained free trade illegal (1890)?

• Interstate Commerce Act
• Sherman Antitrust Act
• Clayton Antitrust Act
• Keller-Cefauver Act

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

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

When was the Progressive Era?

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

Which long-awaited goal of the women’s rights movement was achieved during the Progressive Era?

•    the right to vote
•   the right to own property
•    equal pay for equal work
• equal access to employment and education

The founder of the NAACP who encouraged African Americans to fight to end segregation

• Booker T. Washington
• George Washington Carver
• WEB Dubois
• Upton Sinclair

This was created to allow women to vote nationally

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

"The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. . . .”
-19th Amendment, U. S. Constitution
Which grouping  of women worked for the passage of this amendment?

• Harriet Tubman, Jane Addams, and Dorothea Dix
• Susan B. Anthony, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Madeline Albright, Geraldine Ferraro, and Sandra Day O’Connor
• Clara Barton, Amelia Earhart, and Eleanor Roosevelt