Progressive Era

Who wrote the expose piece of literature that revealed the extensive corrupt monopolistic business practices of Standard Oil?

• Ida Tarbell

• Lewis Hines

• Jacob Riis

• Upton Sinclair

Whose book led to the direct passage of the Meat Inspection Act and indirect of the Pure Food and Drug Acts?

• Jacob Riis

• Lewis Hines

• Ida Tarbell

• Upton Sinclair

Who was the person who founded the settlement house (Hull House) for the Assimilation and Americanization of the immigrant poor?

• Elixabeth Cady Stanton

• Jane Addams

• Susan B. Anthony

• Belle Starr

Which Progressive President used Big Stick Diplomacy and was known as a Trust buster?

• Teddy Roosevelt

• Taft

• Woodrow Wilson

• Luke Skywalker

Which of the following is an initiative?

• People have the right to remove a politician from office

• People have the right to choose who will run for President

• People have the right to propose a new law

• People have the right to veto or accept a law passed by the government

This person helped to found the NAACP

• Ida B Wells
• Booker T Washington
• W E B DuBois
• Martin Luther King Jr.

Key Reforms of the Progressive Era

· Initiative

· Referendum

· Recall

· Direct Primary

· 17^th Amendment

How did the reforms listed above impact America?

• A system of separate schools for new immigrants

• They gave citizens a greater voice in the democratic process of government

• More sources of revenue and taxes in state governments.

• They successfully brought economic relief to the urban working class

Writers that dig up the bad things going on in society

• Suffragists
• Muckrakers
• Students
• Chaffinators

Banned people from making, drinking or selling alcohol

• 17th Amendment
• 18th Amendment
• 19th Amendment
• 21st Amendment

17th Amendment-

• Banned sale, distribution and manufacture of alcohol

• required direct election of US Senators

• established the Income Tax

• Gave women suffrage rights