progressive era quiz

What was the purpose of Muckrakers?

• Writers who wanted to make money by selling newspapers
• Writers who wanted to cause change with their writings
• Writers who supported big business and corruption in politics
• Writers who wrote patriotic short stories

Suffrage refers to:

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

Banned people from making, drinking or selling alcohol

• 17th Amendment
• 18th Amendment
• 19th Amendment
• 21st Amendment

What amendment provided suffrage for women (1920)?

• 16th
• 17th
• 18th
• 19th

Who was the photographer who revealed to the world how the lower class lived?

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

Wrote about lynchings in the South to bring attention to the crime.

• Susan B Anthony
• Jane Addams
• Francis WIllard
• Ida B Wells

Key Reforms of the Progressive Era
·  Initiative
·  Referendum
·  Recall
·  Direct Primary
·  17^th Amendment

 How did the reforms listed above impact America?

• A system of separate schools for new immigrants
• They gave citizens a greater voice in the democratic process of government
• More sources of revenue and taxes in state governments.
• They successfully brought economic relief to the urban working class

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 

In the case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that

• lynching was a federal crime.
• school segregation was unconstitutional.
• voting rights could not be tied to any form of tax.
• racial segregation in public facilities was legal.

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