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Worksheets3.1/3.2 Quiz
Total questions: 5
Worksheet time: 3mins
What did the 19th Amendment accomplish?
Freedom of expression
Prohibition of alcohol
Women's right to vote
The right to bear arms
Why did women of the Progressive Era push for the temperance movement?
Alcohol sales were too high
Women wanted the right to vote
Provided funds for poor urban Americans
Men wasted their money on alcohol and/or abused their families
How did the event of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire help bring to light issues of the Era?
Showed the dangerous consequences that unsafe working conditions and corrupt business owners could have for workers.
Showed how important it is to practice fire safety at work.
Showed that workers needed to work more efficiently.
Showed how a community can come together during a tragedy.
How did Progressive reformers change local and state governments by achieving things like the direct primary, initiative, referendum, recall and the 17th Amendment?
Local and State Governments became more corrupt
They gave citizens a greater voice in the Political Process
American citizens lost rights in the political process
The President gained more power in the federal government
Read the following quote from Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle (1906):
“There would be meat that had tumbled out on the floor, in the dirt and sawdust, where the workers had tramped and spit uncounted billions of consumption germs. There would be meat stored in great piles in rooms; and the water from leaky roofs would drip over it, and thousands of rats would race about on it.”
What was the primary purpose of Sinclair’s writing in this passage?
To expose the harsh working conditions faced by factory laborers in the meatpacking industry
To persuade Americans to adopt vegetarian diets
To highlight the poor quality and unsafe conditions of food production to promote reform
To praise the efficiency of industrial production in Chicago’s stockyards
