Progressive Era review

What is the significance of initiative, recall, and referendum?*

• increase power to the citizens

• expand voting rights to the Chinese

• expand suffrage to women

• low interest rate loans to farmers

A modern day muckraker would be a:

• police man/woman
• politician
• farmer
• reporter/journalist

What did the Sherman Anti-Trust Law accomplish?

• allowed businesses to open overseas

• allowed trusts to expand

• forced businesses to share profits with workers

• government dissolves monopolies

How did Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle contribute to a change in the relationship between government and business?

• government worked to end child labor

• federal troops ended Coal Strike

• increased food regulations

• break up of railroad monopolies

Which of these is most associated with the muckrakers?

• womens suffrage
• a graduated income tax
• creation of National Park Service
• creation of Meat Inspection Act

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony are best known for

• popular singing duo

• fighting lynching

• settlement houses in Chicago

• women's suffrage

Ida B. Wells is known for

• fighting for voting rights of Californians

• fighting lynching and equality

• vocational education

• settlement houses in Chicago

What is the 19th Amendment?

• creation of income tax
• direct election of Senators
• prohibition (banning of alcohol)
• women's suffrage

Prohibition of Alcohol

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

"The Jungle" - Exposes conditions of meatpacking industry

• Lincoln Steffens

• Ida Tarbell

• Jane Adams

• Upton Sinclair