U.S History Progressive Era

What was the goal of cleaning up local governments?

• Make government less efficient and responsive
• Help the poor through community centers, churches, and social services
• Expose corrupt politicians and political machines
• Make government more efficient and responsive

Reformers wanted to end child labor because it:

• Children were prone to accidents caused by fatigue
• Children developed serious health problems 
• Children had stunted growth
• All of the above

This amendment allowed the people to directly elect their senators

• 16th Amendment
• 17th Amendment
• 18th Amendment
• 19th Amendment

Head of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial school. Believed equality would happen over time

• Theodore Roosevelt
• Upton Sinclair
• Booker T. Washington
• W.E.B. Du Bois

Helped pass the Illinois factory act of 1893 which prohibited child labor and limited women’s working hours

• Theodore Roosevelt
• Florence Kelley
• Ida Tarbell
• Henry Ford

Reporters, journalists, photographers, and authors who used the media to raise concerns about the negative effects of industrialization were known as

• muckrakers
• suffragists
• immigrants
• abolitionists

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This event was one major factor leading to the need for building codes and government regulation of businesses

• Haymarket Riot
• Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
• founding of the Tuskegee Institute
• attempted assassination of President Garfield

Prohibition began with the 

• 15th Amendment
• 17th Amendment
• 18th Amendment
• 21st Amendment

Suffragists included

• Alice Paul
• Susan B Anthony
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• All of the above

Amendment that gave women the right to vote

• 15th
• 17th
• 18th
• 19th