Progressive Era

My first presidential platform was the  "Square Deal" 

• Wilson
• Debs
• Taft
• Roosevelt

One of the major goals of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 was to

• limit the amount of sugar in snack products.
• protect farmers from bankruptcy due to changing food prices.
• control the price put on beverages and food products.
• ensure that products were labeled accurately.

Which Constitutional amendment provided for Prohibition (conservative social progressives)?

• 16th
• 17th
• 18th
• 19th

Initiative, referedum, recall were all intended to

• make president more responsive
• reduce influence of media
• give political parties more control
• increase citizen participation in govt. 

One way the U.S. government responded to the problems caused by the conditions in this list was by —

• passing the Interstate Commerce Act
• implementing the silver standard for currency
• creating a federal jobs program for the unemployed
• establishing a new tax on capital gains

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CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RI.9-10.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

What amendment provided suffrage for women (1920)?

• 16th
• 17th
• 18th
• 19th

Who became president after William McKinley was assassinated?

• Andrew Johnson
• Franklin Roosevelt
• Ulysses Grant
• Theodore Roosevelt

Prohibition banned the making, selling, buying, or drinking of alcohol. Which amendment made this possible?

• 17th Amendment

• 18th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

• 21st Amendment

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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A period of time when social, economic and political problems caused by rapid industrialization were exposed and in some cases reformed.

What is the most likely title for this?

• Industrialization

• Progressive Era

• Reconstruction

• Prohibition