The Progressive Era Quiz

Strikes took place during the Progressive Era due to all of the following EXCEPT:

• They wanted safer working conditions and workers compensation

• They wanted to protect children in the workplace

• They wanted to hold church meetings in work locations

• They wanted better pay

Suffrage refers to:

• Discrimination
• Women’s Rights
• The Right To Vote
• The Denial of Voting

Who was the photographer who revealed to the world, How the Other Half Lives?

• Alexander Bell
• Jacob Riis
• Upton Sinclair
• Theodore Roosevelt

The political party that advocated for farmers was known as the ______party.

• Republican
• Democrat
• Populist

1906- Wrote The Jungle which exposed the conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry. (Helped pass the Pure Food and Drug Act) 

• Upton Sinclair 
• Lincoln Steffens 
• Jacob Riis 
• Frank Norris 

President Theodore Roosevelt’s conservation efforts were influenced by a desire to—

• protect natural resources for the future

• increase revenues through land sales

• reduce the role of the federal government

• return tribal lands to Native American Indians

Which of the following describes the tenements that were typical of many urban areas in the early twentieth century?

• Government - paid for housing for the poor

• Modern apartments that housed poor families

• Buildings that housed many families in cramped, airless, unsafe, no indoor plumbing

• Light-manufacturing factories

New York legislation dealing with safety in factories and wages-and-hour laws for women and children was enacted (started) because of this?

• Anthracite Coal Strike
• Danbury Hatters Boycott
• Niagara Movement
• Triangle Shirtwaist fire

The Populist Party was made up of mostly

• farmers

• women

• rich entreprenuers

• factory workers

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