Muckrakers
What is a muckraker?
a. A writer/journalist who exposed the problems of society
b. A worker who is underaged
c. A businessman who owns the majority of a company
d. A woman who fights for their right to vote
A writer/journalist who exposed the problems of society
Woman's Suffrage is supporting:
a. Women's right to health care
b. Women's right to suffer
c. Women's right to vote
d. Women's right to property
c. Women's right to vote
The Progressive Era began around which of the following years?*
a. 1900
b. 1800
c. 1600
d. 1700
a. 1900
Progressive Era advocates suggested people should work how many hours per week?
a. 50
b. 80
c. 40
d. 60
C. 40
Jacob Riis created a book called How the Other Half Lives, which exposed
a. Poor living conditions in tenements
b. Unclean Meat-Packing Plants
c. The link between big business and crooked politicians
d. The impacts of child labor
a. Poor living conditions in tenements
What did the National Women’s Party fight for?
a. women’s right to work in factories
b. women’s right to earn a living
c. women’s right to vote in elections
d. women’s right to drink alcohol
women’s right to vote in elections
Which of the following was NOT a goal of the Progressive Movement?
a. Political Democracy
b. Economic Equality
c. Further Expand the Income Gap
d. Social Justice
c. Further Expand the Income Gap
In 1900, what percentage of boys aged 10-15 were working instead of attending school?
a. 13%
b. 26%
c. 20%
d. 30%
b. 26%
Lewis Hine was a photographer who created a photo essay about what?
a. Women's Suffrage
b. Child Labor
c. African American Rights
d. Slavery
b. Child Labor
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and who were the creators of the National Woman Suffrage Association?
a. Lucy Stone
b. Susan B. Anthony
c. Martha Stewart
d. Ida B. Wells
b. Susan B. Anthony
According to John Muir, Uncle Sam was the only one who could address which problem?
a. Deregulation
b. Delisting
c. Deforestation
d. Demonetization
c. Deforestation
In 1900, the average American worker earned slightly less than this dollar amount per year.
a. 600
b. 700
c. 300
d. 500
d. 500
Ida Tarbell was a muckraker who exposed the actions of which company?
a. Standard Oil
b. Carnegie Steel
c. General Electric
d. Ford Motor Company
a. Standard Oil
At the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, they argued for all of the following but:
a. property rights
b. child custody rights
c. suffrage
d. child labor
d. child labor
Which of the following was NOT a president during the Progressive Era?
a. Theodore Roosevelt
b. William Howard Taft
c. Franklin Roosevelt
d. Woodrow Wilson
c. Franklin Roosevelt
What was a breaker boy?
a. a worker who breaks coal apart for diamonds
b. a worker who breaks rocks apart
c. a worker who separates coal from slate
d. a worker who shovels coal into carts.
c. a worker who separates coal from slate
What did Upton Sinclair's book "The Jungle" expose to the world?
The unsanitary conditions that meat-packing plants are in
To win woman's suffrage nationwide, Carrie Chapman Catt's "Winning Strategy" focused on:
a. Ask real nicely to their husbands
b. Win enough states and Congress will have to support
c. To protest outside polling places
d. Write more journals/articles about their cause
b. Win enough states and congress will have to support
Progressives sought to improve all of the following except:
a. worker's rights
b. the conditions for the poor
c. the conditions for immigrants
d. parental rights
d. parental rights
Workers were also asking for a living wage, which is
a. the minimum a company can pay you
b. the average pay for workers
c. the minimum pay needed to afford all necessities.
d. The amount that you are paid to be alive.
c. the minimum pay needed to afford all necessities.