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Progressive Era

Progressive Era

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Social Studies

11th Grade

Hard

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Mary Wiggins

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11 Slides • 21 Questions

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Multiple Choice

What belief did Progressives have in common?

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Social Darwinism, that successful people would always rise to the top no matter where they started.

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That the Government should be the organization that should provide for human well-being

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That private churches and charities should be the agent of human welfare.

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Multiple Choice

Did conservatives agree that the Government should be the agent of human welfare?

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Yes

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No

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Multiple Choice

laissez-faire

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opposed to government regulation of business

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government should control major industries

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government should be eliminated

4

nations should avoid trade

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Multiple Choice

Did Progressives believe Laissez-Faire capitalism fit in the new industrial age?

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Yes

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No

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Multiple Choice

Progressive reformers, or muckrakers  known for taking photographs to expose unsafe or unsanitary conditions
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Ida Tarbell and Upton Sinclair
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WEB DuBois and Booker T Washington
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Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine
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Alice Paul and Carrie Catt

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Multiple Choice

Reporters, journalists, photographers, and authors who used the media to raise concerns about the negative effects of industrialization were known as
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muckrakers
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suffragists
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immigrants
4
abolitionists

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Multiple Choice

Whose book led to the direct passage of the Meat Inspection Act and indirect of the Pure Food and Drug Acts?
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Jacob Riis
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Lewis Hines
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Ida Tarbell
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Upton Sinclair

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Multiple Choice

In The Jungle, Upton Sinclair exposed
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Dangers faced by coal miners
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Corrupt business practices of the Standard Oil Company
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Unsanitary conditions in the meat-packing industry
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Illegal deals between special interests and the government

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Multiple Choice

Who wrote the expose piece of literature that revealed the extensive corrupt monopolistic business practices of Standard Oil?
1
Ida Tarbell
2
Lewis Hines 
3
Jacob Riis
4
Upton Sinclair

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Multiple Choice

Key Reforms of the Progressive Era

· Initiative

· Referendum

· Recall

· Direct Primary

· 17th Amendment


How did the reforms listed above impact the US?

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A system of separate schools for new immigrants

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

3

More sources of revenue and taxes in state governments.

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They successfully brought economic relief to the urban working class

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Multiple Choice

This amendment provides for the direct election of Senators.

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16th

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17th

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18th

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19th

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Multiple Choice

Suffragists included

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Alice Paul

2

Susan B Anthony

3

Anne Dallas Dudley

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All of the above

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Multiple Choice

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The ratification of this amendment granted women’s suffrage -

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18th Amendment

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19th Amendment

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16th Amendment

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17th Amendment

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Multiple Choice

What was Jane Addams' establishment called?
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The Escape.
2
Convalescent Home.
3
Hull House.
4
The Mansion.

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Multiple Choice

Who benefited the most from Jane Addams?
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Battered women.
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Poor Immigrants.
3
Business Owners.
4
Homeless toddlers.

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Multiple Choice

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What amendment did the members of the Temperance movement work to achieve?

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16th

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17th

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18th

4

19th

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Multiple Choice

Roosevelt’s Square Deal refers to:

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Fair treatment of people in society

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Using the government’s power to help citizens

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Settling issues for the betterment of society

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All of the above

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Multiple Choice

Teddy Roosevelt was known as a "trust-buster." What does that mean?

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He worked to break up small businesses

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He worked with big monopolies to make them stronger

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He worked to break up large monopolies

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He let the companies operate without any government interference

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Multiple Choice

The purpose of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act was to

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break up monopolies

2

give equal rights to women

3

help people living in poverty

4

end racism

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Multiple Choice

Which idea of Theodore Roosevelt’s led to the creation of National Parks?
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Meat Inspection Act
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Preservation
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Conservation
4
Intimidation

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Multiple Choice

What civil service reform legislation led to less corruption in the government because it established a merit-based system for government jobs?

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Interstate Commerce Act

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Pendleton Act

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Teapot Dome Scandel

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Pure Food & Drug Act

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