Progressive Era

Journalists who researched social issues and published their findings

• Progressives

• Muckrakers

• Sensationalists

• Suffragists

Advocates for women's suffrage supported which amendment?

• 16th

• 17th

• 18th

• 19th

Those who wanted ECONOMIC reform may have been concerned about which issue?

• the influence of monopolies and trusts

• eliminating political machines

• conservation of natural resources

• ending racial violence and discrimination

What did Jacob Riis reveal to the public with his book, How The Other Half Lives, and photographs?

• the glamorous lives of business tycoons

• working conditions at the Homestead Steel Mill

• conditions in slaughterhouses and meatpacking plants

• living conditions in NYC tenement buildings

A referendum gives voters the ability to ...

• pick their top 3 candidates instead of just one

• circulate a petition

• criticize elected officials

• approve or reject a suggested measure

Which of these was a change at the FEDERAL level of govt? Check ALL that apply!

• People could directly elect senators

• Govt. introduced an income tax

• Pendleton Civil Service Act

• Council-manager system introduced

Antitrust laws allowed Presidents Roosevelt and Taft to ...

• hunt in national parks

• inspect steel mills and textile factories

• break up powerful monopolies

• stop immigrants from southern & eastern Europe

Which term refers to limiting or ending the consumption of alcohol?

• suffrage

• temperance

• muckraking

• conservation

Union members refuse to work to prove their worth to the business owners

• petition

• muckraking

• strike

• temperance

the rapid growth of cities

• urbanization

• tenement

• vertical integration

• transcontinental