Progressive Era Quiz

The Temperance Movement, Women’s Suffrage Movement, and outlawing child labor were reform movements that took place during this era-

• Gilded Age

• Imperialism

• Progressive Era

• Roaring 20's

People like Upton Sinclair were ___________________ because they investigated and exposed abuse and corruption.

• Supporters of Political Machines

• Nativists

• Muckrakers

• Industialists

A woman who advocates voting rights for women

• suffragette

• prohibitionist

• temperance

• bootlegger

Separation of the races is called....

• segregation

• separation

• prohibition

• poverty

To change for the better

• temperance

• progressive

• segregate

• reform

Laws designed to enforce segregation of blacks from whites

• 18th Amendment

• Jim Crow Laws

• Suffrage

• 21st Amendment

Southern states restricted the voting rights of blacks by enacting

• literacy tests
• grandfather clause
• poll taxes
• all of the above

Growth of American industry is most closely associated with

• a large labor supply, especially immigrants

• an abundance of natural resources

• construction of new railroads

• all of the above

Reporters, journalists, photographers, and authors who used the media to raise concerns about the negative effects of industrialization were known as

• muckrakers
• suffragists
• immigrants
• abolitionists

This event was one major factor leading to the need for building codes and government regulation of businesses

• Haymarket Riot
• Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
• founding of the Tuskegee Institute
• attempted assassination of President Garfield