Video QUIZ: Progressive Era and Social Reforms Quiz

Who were the journalists that exposed corruption and societal issues during the Progressive Era?

• Federalists

• Reconstructionists

• Muckrakers

• Capitalists

What was the primary focus of Upton Sinclair's book 'The Jungle'?

• Women's suffrage movement

• Immigrant life in urban areas

• Corruption in politics

• Unsafe practices in the meatpacking industry

What significant impact did Ida Tarbell's investigative journalism have on the business practices of the time?

• Exposure of unfair business practices by Standard Oil

• Promotion of child labor

• Support for unrestricted capitalism

• Advocacy for the temperance movement

What was the primary outcome of Jacob Reese's work 'How the Other Half Lives'?

• Reform in child labor laws

• Improvements in urban housing and sanitation

• Expansion of women's educational opportunities

• Establishment of the FDA

What role did Jane Adams play in the Progressive Era?

• She led the temperance movement

• She founded the settlement house movement

• She established the NAACP

• She wrote influential muckraking journalism

What was the primary legal framework established in the South to enforce racial segregation?

• The Civil Rights Act

• Jim Crow laws

• The 14th Amendment

• The Emancipation Proclamation

What was the Supreme Court's ruling in Plessy vs. Ferguson?

• It supported women's suffrage

• It declared segregation unconstitutional

• It upheld the legality of 'separate but equal'

• It overturned Jim Crow laws

What was the main goal of the NAACP when it was founded in 1909?

• To promote women's rights

• To challenge and end segregation laws

• To support business monopolies

• To enforce Jim Crow laws