EOC: U7 Quiz

The picture shows Jane Adams with kids being served by Hull House in Chicago. What goal of the Progressive Era is shown?

• fostering efficiency

• protecting social welfare

• creating economic reform

• promoting moral improvement

Which of the following most likely inspired the demand being made by the women pictured?

• The Great American Fraud by Samuel Hopkins Adams

• The Shame of Cities by Lincoln Steffens

• The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

• How the Other Half Lives  by Jacob Riis

A major purpose of the Progressive movement (1900–1917) was to

• stimulate the economy

• support government control of factory production

• encourage immigration from southern and eastern Europe

• correct the economic and social abuses of industrial society

With which social issue is this cartoon associated?

• the power of political machines during the Second Industrial Revolution

• the influence of immigration quotas during the Gilded Age

• the power of big businesses during the Second Industrial Revolution

• the influence of suffrage reformers during the Gilded Age

Muckrakers like Jacob Riis produced images like the one shown, which led to?

• Influenced government action to reform these conditions.

• higher room rates by landlords

• Increased investments in tenement slums by the rich.

• better sleeping conditions

Jacob Riis wrote “How the Other Half Lives”

Upton Sinclair wrote "The Jungle"

What impact did Progressives have during the early 1900s?

• Society changed in response to their promotion of Social Darwinism.

• Voters agreed to let owners of big businesses create profitable monopolies

• Reports of these works led to a sudden decrease in immigration

• Public reactions to these works led to new laws that fixed the problems