Progressive Era Review

Famer's Political Party

• A.I.M.

• Populists

• Chicanos

• Famer's Unite

Taking away one's right to vote

• Enfranchisement

• Suffrage

• Disenfranchisement

He believed that blacks would advance through vocational work

• WEB Dubois

• Booker T. Washington

• George Washington Carver

• Homer Plessy

Organization founded by WEB Dubois

• NAACP

• NCAPP

• AANP

• CAPP

Which one of two laws did the federal government do in response to the rotten meats revealed by Upton Sinclair's The Jungle?

• Sherman Antitrust Act

• Pure Food and Drug Act

• Interstate Commerce Act

• Indian Removal Act

What role did Teddy Roosevelt play in conservation?

• He influenced the creation of the National Parks System

• He called on Americans to stop consuming oil

• He signed a law banning the use of fossil fuels.

• He advocated for conservative values.

What was the Pendleton Act?

• it established consistent traffic signs across the country

• it legalized the spoils system

• it delegated the power of nominating candidates to the staets

• it established a merit system by examination for potential office holders

What did the Supreme Court case, Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) do?

• it banned segregation in public schools

• it legalized public segregation under the "separate but equal" doctrine

• it banned segregation in public transportation

• it delegated the issue of segregation to the states

The Gilded Age (1880s-1900s) featured the growing power of big business and their monopolization of industries. Such economic power prevented competition and manipulated consumer prices. What did Congress do as a response?

• Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act

• Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Congress passed laws protecting monopolies

• Congress passed the Clayton Antitrust Act

This muckraker revealed the unsanitary conditions of the streets of New York City caused by widespread homelessness and poverty of newcomers.

• Upton Sinclair

• Ida Tarbell

• Thomas Nast

• Jacob Riis