Progressive Era Test

The Jungle exposed unsanitary and unsafe practices in the meatpacking industry.

Which muckraker is responsible for exposing the conditions?

Key Reforms of the Progressive Era

· Initiative

· Referendum

· Recall

· Direct Primary

· 17^th Amendment

How did the reforms listed above impact the US?

Reporters, journalists, photographers, and authors who used the media to raise concerns about the negative effects of industrialization were known as

The idea that the government will tax at different rates based on how much money you make.

Which idea of Theodore Roosevelt’s Square Deal led to the creation of National Parks?

Jacob Riis used a different medium to demonstrate the way corporate greed led to the impoverishment of American city-life.

His book, How the Other Half Lives, used __________________ to expose urban living conditions.

This is an excerpt from an essay published in McClure’s Magazine in 1905.

"Mr. Rockefeller has not squandered his income. He has applied it for thirty-five years to accumulating, not only oil property but real estate--railroad stock, iron mines, copper mines, anything and everything which could be bought cheap by temporary depressing and made to yield rich by his able management. For thirty-five years he has depreciated values when necessary to get his prey."

Which term best defines the author of this essay?

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Which one of these women were not part of the women's suffrage movement?

What did the 19th Amendment do?

What were some of the things women did to fight for their right to vote?