Progressive Era

The major goal of Jane Addams' Settlement House was?

• gaining women's suffrage

• creating strict child labor laws

• helping the mentally ill

• the assimilation of immigrants

Progressives wanted to increase voter participation by

• making it illegal not to vote

• increasing the influence of big business and banks

• encouraged the use of direct primaries

• demanding that the voting age be lowered to 16 years old

How does initiative and referendum expand democracy?

• it puts all the power in the hands of elected officials

• set up poil taxes to limit who could vote

• called for the removal of all elected offices

• gave citizens a direct role in lawmaking

What is the name of the conservation agency established by Teddy Roosevelt?

• Internal Revenue System

• National Park System

• Bureau of Indian Affairs

• Federal Marshalls Service

Progressive Era reformers increased participation in democracy by supporting

• the limiting of voting to white, land-owning males

• support of the political machines

• establishment of the Tammany Hall system in New York

• direct election of senators

NAACP was co-founded by:

• Harriet Tubman

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Susan B. Anthony

What Progressive Era law was created to combat the growth of monopolies and trusts?

• Clayton Antitrust Act

• Wilson-Taft Antitrust Act

• Pure Food and Drug Act

• Federal Trade Commission

Plessy v Ferguson:

• ended slavery

• established the "separate but equal" policy

• established the NAACP

• exposed the unsanitary practices in the meat packing industry

Upton Sinclair's The Jungle led to

• the establishment of the Federal Trade Commission

• the establishment of the Federal Antitrust Agency

• the establishment of universal suffrage in the United States

• the establishment of the Pure Food and Drug Act