1.2 PROGRESSIVE ERA TEST REVIEW 2022-2023

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

W.E.B. DuBois argued for immediate racial equality. What else was he known for?

• he wrote How the Other Half Lives?

• he helped found the NAACP

• he called for African Americans to obtain job training

• he mostly lectured in college about race issues

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

How does a recall election work?

• It allows voters to decide if a bill becomes a law.

• It allows Congress to decide if a bil becomes a law

• It allows voters to propose bills.

• It allows voters to remove an elected official from office.

What is direct democracy?

• The principle of rule by the people through voting for laws themselves

• Electing representatives to make laws for us

• Accepting a monarch to make laws for his subjects

• None of the above

A major purpose of the Progressive movement (1900-1917) was to....

• stimulate the economy

• support government control of factory production

• encourage immigration from southern and eastern Europe

• correct the economic and social abuses of industrial society

What did the 19th Amendment guarantee?

• Congress can collect taxes

• Prohibition

• Direct election of U.S. senators

• Women's suffrage (right to vote)

Who wrote the expose piece of literature that revealed the extensive corrupt monopolistic business practices of Standard Oil?

• Ida Tarbell

• Lewis Hines

• Jacob Riis

• Upton Sinclair

Who was the person who founded the settlement house (Hull House) for the Assimilation and Americanization of the immigrant poor?

• Elixabeth Cady Stanton

• Jane Addams

• Susan B. Anthony

• Belle Starr

Organization founded by WEB Dubois

• NAACP

• NCAPP

• AANP

• CAPP