Progressive Era Quiz

Who exposed Rockefeller when they wrote "History of Standard Oil"?

• Jane Addams

• Ida Tarbell

• Upton Sinclair

Who wrote "The Jungle" exposing the meat packing plant and their lack of sanitation?

• Upton Sinclair

• Jane Addams

• Booker T Washington

What was the Progressive Movement?

• A period with a shift from making things by hand to making things with machines

• A period of large scale immigration to the US

• A period of economic decline & agriculture hardships

• A period of social and political reform in the US

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

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

Jane Addams founded Hull House to... 

• force Native American children to learn English. 
• Help poor immigrant women and children in Chicago to adapt to American life. 
• House African Americans leaving the South. 
• Hold meetings for the Christian Women's Temperance Movement

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

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

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 investigative piece did Jacob Riis create?

• The History of Standard Oil

• The Jungle

• How the Other Half Lives

• Lynchings in the South