Progressive Reform Movement

True or False: A muckraker is a journalist who attempted to uncover corruption in businesses

• True

• False

The Jungle, a book about the corrupt business and awful working conditions in the meat packing industry was written by........

• Upton Sinclair

• Ida Tarbell

• Jacob Riis

• Jane Addams

Ida Tarbell is the Muckraker responsible for....

• Exposing Rockefeller for corrupt business practices

• Getting the right to vote for women

• Developed sanitation departments

• Gave all black women the right to vote

What was Jacob Riis attempting to accomplish through his pictures?

• Expose the awful living conditions of most immigrants in the city and to develop sanitation departments

• To take away the rights of African Americans

• To destroy the American Anti-Imperialist League

• To grant all women the right to vote

In addition to establishing her Hull House, Jane Addams was also a Charter member of what organization?

• NAFTA

• EU

• NAACP

• KKK

What was the original purpose of Jim Crow Laws?

• To grant African Americans the same rights as whites

• To keep African Americans from voting

• To give only black men, and not black women the right to vote

• To ensure that schools stayed segregated

This supreme court case ended in the ruling the as long as facilities were equal they could remain separated on the basis of race.

• Roe v Wade

• Marbury v Madison

• Plessy v Ferguson

• Brown v Board of Education

Plessy v Ferguson began when Homer Plessy, a black man, refused to do what?

• Sit in the back of a bus

• Leave the white only section of the rail car

• Leaving the voting booth

• Tried to enroll his child into a white school

Which of the following allows citizens to directly suggest and approve laws

• Initiative/Referendum

• Direct Election of Senators

• Labor Laws

• Recall

Recalls gave citizens a way to remove officials from office before they have served there full two years

• True

• False