Progressive Era

What did Booker T. Washington and WEB DuBois agree upon?

• Discrimination in America needed to end.

• The same method to achieve equality.

• Women needed the right to vote.

• Professional careers were the only way to achieve equality.

In the early 20th century, muckraking authors Upton Sinclair and Ida Tarbell primarily criticized the federal government for

• overspending on social welfare programs

• excessive regulation of the steel industry

• ignoring abuses committed by big business

• wasting money on foreign wars

Which legislation resulted from the publication of Upton Sinclair’s novel, The Jungle?

• Interstate Commerce Act

• Dawes Act

• Meat Inspection Act and FDA

• Hepburn Act

W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington strongly disagreed over the

• use of the federal policy of affirmative action to aid African Americans

• method and speed for attaining equal rights for African Americans

• benefits of the Harlem Renaissance

• need for passage of the 14th amendment to acquire civil rights

One major goal of the Progressive movement was to

• balance the federal budget by decreasing spending

• provide unemployment insurance to workers

• limit direct citizen control over government

• pass laws to help solve economic and social problems

This was the term used during the Progressive Era to describe people who exposed the truth to society?

• Metallica

• Magician

• Muckraker

• Mudslinger

Jim Crow laws?

• A way to legally discriminate against black people.

• Anti-hunting laws passed during the progressive Era.

• Laws that were created by Senator Crow to prevent immigration.

• Laws designed to keep women from being equal in America.