progressive era #3

Which amendment were the men in the photograph against?

• 21st
• 19th
• 18th
• 20th

What era is represented by the desire for improved safety conditions, reduced work hours, and restrictions on child labor?

• Modern Social Movement
• Realism Movement
• Progressive Movement
• Civil Rights Movement

"Eight hours for work, Eight hours for rest, Eight hours for what we will"
In singing this song, what were union members asking for?

• Safer factories
• Higher wages
• Fewer work holidays
• Shorter workdays

The purpose of the 18th Amendment was to--

• prevent child labor
• stop alcohol transportation, sale and manufacturing

• grant women suffrage
• raise factory wages

Why were settlement houses crucial centers of Progressive action?

• They provided literary and philosophical perspectives on social questions.

• They gave women a reason to teach children how to read the classics.

• They showed women’s only concerns were as wives and mothers.

• They brought attention to a broader array of urban social problems and civic concerns.

The work of the Muckrakers, the Woman Suffrage, and the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) all demonstrated the

• need for more schools

• need for social reforms

• importance of immigration laws

• need for economic reforms

The three Progressive Era reforms that contributed to increasing the power of the citizens in state and local government where which 3?

• recall, iniative, referendum
• revenge, recall, referendum
• trusts, recall, elect

Who was a trust buster that wanted to regulate big businessess?  

• Woodrow Wilson
• W.E.B. Du Bois
• Theodore Roosevelt
• William Taft

If you were against the Spoil System which term might be something you would say?

• "Giving government jobs to political supporters, will not benefit the citizens of this country."
• "Only members of political parties should hold government jobs."
• "It isn't right for city bosses to demand payoffs from businesses."

Name the man who exposed the terrible tenement houses.

• Jacob Riis

• Booker T. Washington

• Upton Sinclair

• W.E.B. DuBois