WorksheetsProgressive Era Problems
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 25mins
"The rats were nuisances, and the packers would put poisoned bread out for them; they would die, and then rats, bread, and meat would go in into the hoppers together." ~Upton Sinclair (The Jungle)
The excerpt above best describes which issue of the Progressive Era?
City Life
Working Conditions
Food Safety
Environment
Using the Station 1: Food Safety: Describe the problems related to drug marketing.
The Neil-Reynolds report of 1906 reported that men and women would return to work without...
(a)
View the images of beef industry in Station 1: Food Safety. How did Texas inadvertently contribute to the food safety issues?
The EMBALMED BEEF SCANDAL occured when..
Dead people came back to life and ate burgers.
Canned meat shipped to Puerto Rico killed more people than war.
Cattle told people they were the BALM.
Cattle carcasses were shipped to the east without being processed.
How would you solve the issue of Food Safety?
Jacob Riis was a muckraker who wrote..
Uncle Toms Cabin
Pink Friday
Tarred & Feathered
How the Other Half Lives
How many people died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
150
250
500
100
Using Station 3: Working Conditions: Due to desire for cheap labor, factory owners began to hire __________ to work machine equipment.
men
women
children
Over lumbering of forests, national parks, no road construction are issues facing..
(a)
Using Station 5: Racial Equity: Best describe what lynching means?
What demands did W.E. B. Dubois make in 1906.
Right to walk, talk, exist.
No discrimination
Right to vote
Children to be educated
What is a monopoly?
Temperance is a term that meant
Selling Alcohol
Avoidance of Alcohol
What were ghost walks?
Women are upset because they still are not able to ...
Cry
Work
Vote
Rest
Dorthea Dix wrote about the treatment of people who were incarcerated. What issue was she trying to reform?
Right to vote
Food & Drug Industry
Prison Reform
Political Corruption
