Quiz on Historical Events and Figures

Who were the muckrakers?

• People who cleaned the streets

• People who exposed many problems publicly through writing

• People who worked in factories

• People who built skyscrapers

What did Upton Sinclair expose?

• Problems with the education system

• Problems with the meat packing industry

• Problems with the transportation system

• Problems with the banking industry

What was a result of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?

• New laws for child labor

• Building codes for fire escapes

• Improved wages for workers

• More factories were built

What did Jacob Riis expose?

• Tenement living

• Factory conditions

• School overcrowding

• Political corruption

What is the definition of suffrage?

• Right to education

• Right to vote

• Right to work

• Right to free speech

Which amendment allowed women the right to vote?

• 15th

• 18th

• 19th

• 21st

What did W.E.B. Du Bois and the NAACP do?

• Founded the NAACP

• Started the labor union movement

• Created new schools

• Built hospitals

What is the Square Deal?

• A new type of currency

• Programs of progressive reforms to protect common people from big business

• A new transportation system

• A new type of housing

What was a cause of child labor in factories?

• To learn new skills

• To survive in poverty, families had children go to work

• To help build new cities

• To support the education system

What is the definition of a tenement?

• A luxury apartment

• A run down apartment house barely meeting minimal standards

• A new type of school

• A government building