The Progressive Era

he Writings of the muckrakers, the formation of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and the work of Susan B. Anthony all demonstrated the

• Need for social reform

• Desire for more public schools

• Power of the central government 

• Importance of immigration laws

The 1906 publication of Upton Sinclair’s book The Jungle helped to expose the

• Unfair treatment of women

• Cruelty of modern warfare

• Unsafe living conditions in tenements

• Unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry

Jacob Riis and Upton Sinclair are considered muckrakers because they

• Established a new political party

• Exposed corruption and abuses in society

• Organized labor unions

• Drew cartoons to criticize politicians

What was one reason national Prohibition failed

• Stores did not sell alcohol

• Many Americans did not support the law

• The federal government refused to enforce Prohibition laws

• The United States Supreme Court declared Prohibition unconstitutional

What is President Theodore Roosevelt’s policy toward trusts?

• Good trusts must be destroyed

• Good trusts must be controlled; bad trusts broken up

• Trusts must use their resources to protect the environment

• Only bad trusts should be regulated

During the Progressive Era, many states began to use primary elections to allow voters to

• Remove elected officials from their offices

• Petition their elected representatives to pass laws

• Choose party candidates for elected offices

• Express their views on proposed new laws 

During the late 1800s and early 1900s, one way in which the temperance movement and the women’s suffrage movement were similar is that both tried to

• Protect the rights of factory workers

• Reduce the power of big business

• End protective tariffs to aid consumers

• Achieve reform by supporting a constitutional amendment

A major goal of the Sherman Antitrust Act was to 

• Prevent the formation of business monopolies

• Limit imports from foreign nations

• Set fair prices for manufactured goods

• Protect consumers from dangerous products

The principle of "separate but equal" established by the Supreme Court in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) was used to

• provide reservation lands used for Native American Indians

• justify racial segregation of public facilities

• end the use of child labor

• expand the freedoms guaranteed by the Bill of Rights