Gilded Age and Progressive Era

In the late 19th century, the ideas of Social Darwinism were used primarily to?

• encourage the passage of mandatory public education

• justify big business leaders exploiting factory workers

• urge Congress to raise tariffs on imported goods

• support the growth of new political parties

This was a movement led mostly by women to end the consumption of alcohol?

• Direct Primary Movement

• Temperance Movement

• Suffrage Movement

• Labor Union Movement

Why are both Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony considered pioneers of the Women's Suffrage Movement?

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote the Declaration of Sentiments

• Susan B. Anthony voted illegally in an election In Rochester and was arrested

• Both Stanton and Anthony organized the Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention

• all of the above

Women were granted the right to vote with the passage of which of the following?

• 21st amendment

• 19th amendment

• Equal Voting Rights Act

• Title 9

Which of the Progressive Era amendments provided for the direct election of US Senators?

• 16th amendment

• 18th amendment

• 17th amendment

• 19th amendment

The term "muckraker" was used during the Progressive Era to describe what?

• dissatisfied factory workers who went on strike

• Northerners who went South following the Civil War

• women who supported the Prohibition Movement

• investigative journalists who exposed problems in society and government

In passing the Sherman Antitrust Act (1890), Congress intended to?

• prevent large corporations from forming monopolies and eliminating their competition

• regulate rates charged by the railroad companies

• prevent banks from foreclosing on farmers who could not pay their bank loans

• force large trusts to bargain with labor unions

What did Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and JP Morgan all have in common?

• they were all major industrialists in the gilded age

• they all owned major monopolies

• they were know as robber barons/ captains of industry

• all of the above

Which book prompted the passage of the Meat Inspection Act (1906) and the Pure Food and Drugs Act (1906)?

• Upton Sinclair's The Jungle

• Jacob Riis's How the Other Half Lives

• Lincoln Steffens' The Shame of the Cities

• Ida Tarbell's The History of Standard Oil

This muckraker exposed the corrupt business practices of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company?

• John Spargo

• Ida Tarbell

• Jacob Riis

• Upton Sinclair