Progressive Era

PE 1

100

Someone who wants to make a change

Reformer

200

Someone who wants to expose the truth

Muckraker

300

The title of Upton Sinclair's book that was filled with nauseating details about the Chicago meat packing industry

The Jungle

400

This required government inspectors to be allowed to inspect for cleanliness in all meat-packing facilities

Meat Inspection Act of 1906

500

This cracked down on unsafe food and patent medicines. Required all food and drug makers to list the ingredients on their packages

Pure Food and Drug Act

PE 2

100

The right to vote

Suffrage

200

The campaign against the sale and/or drinking of alcohol

Temperance Movement

300

This amendment banned the sale, transportation and production of alcohol

18th

400

This amendment gave women the right to vote

19th

500

This amendment authorized Congress to create an income tax

16th

PE 3

100

This amendment created a popular election for US Senators

17th

200

This movement was meant to fix problems in society that had emerged from the growth of industry, economic transformation, and increasing immigration

Progressive Movement

300

What became the focus of the Women's Rights Movement?

Suffrage

400

Nickname given to President Roosevelt's goal of trust-busting and giving Americans a fair deal

Square Deal

500

Leading Muckraker who wrote the history of the Standard Oil Company, covering how John D. Rockefeller created his vicious monopoly

Ida Tarbell

PE 4

100

Muckraking journalist and photographer who used photos to expose poverty in New York City

Jacob Riis

200

Author of The Jungle. The book that exposed the horrors of the Chicago meat packing industry

Upton Sinclair

300

Politics during the Gilded Age can best be described as:

a. useless

b. honest

c. helpful

d. corrupt

Corrupt

400

Which of these reforms allowed voters to overrule a law that the government had proposed or passed?

a. recall

b. referendum

c. initiative

d. direct primary

Referendum

500

Why were business leaders opposed to granting women the right to vote?

They thought women voters would support minimum wage and child labor laws

PE 5

100

In 1890 Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony founded the

a. National Woman's Party

b. National Organization for Women

c. National American Woman Suffrage Association

National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)

200

What was a consequence of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire?

a. business leaders volunteered to compensate injured workers

b. working conditions around the country significantly improved

c. laws improving factory safety standards were passed

Laws improving factory safety standards were passed

300

How did President Theodore Roosevelt help the conservation movement?

He doubled the number of national parks and created wildlife reservations