Progressive Era Review

These were journalists who wrote book and articles that exposed corruption in business and government:

• Progressives

• Muckrakers

• Sensationalists

• Investigative reporters

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

Women like Alice Paul participated in which movement?

• African American suffrage

• Immigrant rights

• Women's suffrage

• Prohibition

People like W.E.B. du Bois participated in the movement against what?

• Racism

• Women's suffrage

• Child Labor

• Prohibition

Who outlined the Progressive reforms of the American public and gave his presidential campaign the name "Square Deal?"

• William Howard Taft

• Woodrow Wilson

• William McKinley

• Theodore Roosevelt

17th Amendment

• Women's Suffrage

• Direct Election of Senators

• Federal Income Tax

• Prohibition

During the early 20th century, W. E. B. Du Bois was best known as a leader in the

• creation of technical schools for African Americans
• formation of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
• development of the “Back to Africa” movement
• effort to modernize farming in the South

Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois agreed that African Americans should

• use education to gain opportunities
• support a “Back to Africa” movement
• take part in boycotts to end segregation
• adopt a gradual approach to gain the right to vote

What was the purpose of labor unions?

• to make sure that businesses made a large profit

• to unite business owners to fight the government

• to unite workers fighting for better working conditions

• to recruit women and children into dangerous jobs

Who wrote The Jungle and went undercover to see the conditions for himself?

• Teddy Roosevelt

• Upton Sinclair

• Horace Mann

• Eugene V. Debs