Module 14: Progressive Era Test

In The Jungle, Upton Sinclair exposed

• dangers faced by coal miners.

• corrupt business practices of the Standard Oil Company.

• unsanitary conditions in the meat-packing industry.

• illegal deals between special interests and the government.

Suffrage refers to:

• discrimination

• women’s rights

• the right to vote

• the denial of voting

Which idea of Theodore Roosevelt’s led to the creation of National Parks?

• Meat Inspection Act
• Preservation
• Conservation
• Intimidation

Writers that dig up the bad things going on in society

• Suffragists
• Muckrakers
• Students
• Chaffinators

Which amendment banned people from making, drinking or selling alcohol?

• 17th Amendment

• 18th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

• 21st Amendment

The Sherman Anti-trust Act was passed in order to

• break up monopolies.

• give equal rights to women.

• help people living in poverty.

• end racism.

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

Founder of the NAACP

Pushed for the "Talented Tenth"

Attended Harvard University

• Ida B. Wells

• Booker T. Washington

• W. E. B. DuBois

• Martin Luther King Jr.

Jim Crow laws were laws that

• denied citizenship to Asian immigrants.

• promoted discrimination against women.

• separated the races.

• taxed voters.

Southern states restricted the voting rights of blacks by enacting

• literacy tests
• grandfather clause
• poll taxes
• all of the above