progressive era #1

What was muckraker Jacob Riis' book called?

• America: The Story of Us

• Only In New York

• How the Other Half Lives

• My Favorite Photos

This president created the national parks system and helped to preserve America's natural resources.

• William McKinley

• Grover Cleveland

• Franklin Roosevelt

• Teddy Roosevelt

Journalists who exposed the ills and corruption in society were known as

• muckrakers.

• socialists.

• trouble makers.

• bull moosers.

What is suffrage?

• pain from age

• the right to vote

• intense irritation

• muffled rage

A cause of the Progressive Era would be

• excellent healthcare.

• poor working and living conditions.

• because Teddy Roosevelt said so.

• fair wages.

Examples of the impact of the Progressive Era would be

• long work days without overtime pay.

• more Americans living in tenement housing.

• child labor laws and food safety standards.

• dangerous working conditions and dishonest packaging.

The Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act were passed because of which muckraker?

• Ida Tarbell

• Nellie Bly

• Upton Sinclair

• Jacob Riis

This muckraker risked her life to uncover the treatment inside Blackwell Island's mental institution.

• Anna Howard Shaw

• Nellie Bly

• Liz Lemon

• Susan B. Anthony

This act was created to require companies to remove harmful ingredients from products such as Coca-Cola in early 1900's

• Sherman antitrust act
• Clayton Act
• Pure Food and Drug Act
• Stevens Act

This time period focused on social and political reforms in the United States in the early 1900s:

• Civil War Era

• Industrialization Era

• Progressive Era

• Reconstruction Era