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25 multiple choice questions, 30 minutes
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2. The Progressive Era
The Age of Muckrakers

3. Progressive era 1900-1920 Fix problems of the Gilded Age
Protect social welfare
Promote moral improvement
Create economic reform
Foster efficiency

4. Muckrakers
Journalists who uncovered and exposed corruption and social problems.
Helped to create a demand for change.

5. Ida M. Tarbell “History of the Standard Oil Company”
Exposed the corruption of Rockefeller and his Standard Oil monopoly.

6. Lincoln steffens Shame of the Cities
Exposed the corruption of political machines.

7. Jacob riis How the Other Half Lives
Took photographs to show the public how poor the living conditions were in the big cities.
Exposed poverty.

8. Upton Sinclair The Jungle
Exposed the conditions of the meatpacking plants in Chicago.
Dangerous working conditions and unsanitary food.

9. Social reforms Social Gospel – Jane Addams, “The Hull House”
Helped immigrants
Prohibition – ban of alcohol
Women's’ Suffrage – the right to vote

10. Political reforms Initiative – voters propose laws
Referendum – people vote directly for laws
Recall – voters can remove officials before their term is up

11. Progressive amendments
16 – income tax
17 – direct election of senators
18 – prohibition
19 – women’s suffrage

14. Which muckraker exposed the poverty of the cities with his photography in How the Other Half Lives?
Upton Sinclair
Jacob Riis
Lincoln Steffens
Coach Faith

15. Ida Tarbell criticized this monopoly:
US Steel
Standard Oil
Google
Union Pacific Railroad

16. Which of the following was NOT a goal of the Progressive Era?
Promote social welfare.
Create economic reform.
Require religious attendance.
Promote moral improvement.