Progressive Era Test

Teddy Roosevelt became president of the United States when this sitting president was assassinated:

• William Taft
• William McKinley
• Herbert Hoover
• Abraham Lincoln

This was the premiere muckraking magazine of the Progressive Era

• Time
• McClure's
• McLaughlin's
• Cosmopolitan

Advocated for patience in the realm of equal rights for African-Americans

• W.E.B. DuBois
• Ida Wells
• Booker T Washington
• Washington Carver

Passed during Taft's administration, it lowered tariffs the U.S. charged for certain goods, but not enough to suit Roosevelt

• Underwood Tarrif
• Payne-Aldrich Tariff
• Wilson Tariff
• McKinley Protection Tariff

Progressive legislation that regulated the railroad industry:

• Elkins Act
• Hepburn Act
• Wilkinson Act
• Keating-Owens Act

This act was passed to prohibit child labor in the U.S> but was deemed unconstitutional by SCOTUS

• Elkins Act
• Wilkinson Act
• Keating-Owen Act
• Hepburn Act

She opened the first birth control clinics in the U.S. and was promptly arrested and jailed

• Carrie Chapman Catt
• Susan B Anthony
• Ida B Wells
• Margaret Sanger

Two pieces of legislation that protected the public which was passed during Roosevelt's term were the Pure Food and Drug Act and the

• Clean Air
• Meat Inspection Act
• Renewable Energy
• Elkins Act

Teddy Roosevelt appointed this man to be the first head of the U.S. Forest Service:

• Gifford Pinchot
• William Howard Taft
• John Muir
• Frank Bollinger

This legislation spelled out what activities business could and could not engage in:

• Sherman Anti-Trust Act
• Federal Reserve Act
• Clayton Anti-trust Act
• Duper Anti-trust Act