PROGRESSIVE ERA

Question 1

What is muckraking?

Answer 1

• investigative journalism
• media that often lead to social reform

Question 2

What is yellow journalism?

Answer 2

• when NY newspapers would publish barely truthful stories
• an agenda towards starting a war with Spain

Question 3

Who was William Randolph Hearst?

Answer 3

• publisher of the NY Journal
• said “furnish pictures and he will furnish the war”

Question 4

What is the difference between muckraking and yellow journalism?

Answer 4

muckraking is truthful, yellow journalism is lying

Question 5

What did Riis write about?

Answer 5

promoted public awareness of life in the slums

Question 6

What did Baker write about?

Answer 6

examined the racial divide in America

Question 7

What did Sinclair write about?

Answer 7

exposed the deplorable conditions of the meat packing industry

Question 8

What was Riis’ writing called?

Answer 8

How the Other Half Lives - 1890

Question 9

What was Baker’s writing called?

Answer 9

Following the Color Line - 1908

Question 10

What was Sinclair’s writing called?

Answer 10

The Jungle - 1906

Question 11

When was the Pure Food and Drug Act enacted and what did it do?

Answer 11

• June 30, 1906

1. provided federal inspection of meat products forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated food processing products _ poisonous patent medicines
2. required that drugs be labeled with correct contents and dosage

Question 12

Why did they want Coca Cola outlawed?

Answer 12

it had too much caffeine

Question 13

What was the Coca Cola cased called and when did it happen?

Answer 13

• U.S vs 40 Barrels and 20 Kegs of Coca Cola
• 1916

Question 14

Who was Judge Ben Lindsey?

Answer 14

he established juvenile courts

Question 15

What is the 16th Amendment?

Answer 15

• 1913
• enabled the government to collect income taxes

Question 16

What is the 17th Amendent?

Answer 16

• 1913
• provided the direct election of US senators

Question 17

What is the 18th Amendent?

Answer 17

• passed in 1917, ratified in 1919
• basically prohibition

Question 18

What is the 19th Amendment?

Answer 18

• 1920
• gave women the right to vote

Question 19

What is the Webb-Kenyon Act

Answer 19

• 1913
• forbade transport of liquor into dry states

Question 20

What is the Lever Food and Fuel Control Act?

Answer 20

• 1917
• banned production of distilled spirits during war

Question 21

What is the War Prohibition Act?

Answer 21

• 1918
• forbade manufacture and sale of intoxicating beverages

Question 22

What is the Volstead Act?

Answer 22

• 1919
• made any alcohol less than 0.5% intoxicating

Question 23

Woodrow Wilson background:

Answer 23

1. 28th president (1913-1921)
2. Born in Virginia
3. Became NJ governor in 1910
4. Only president to earn PhD
5. 1st incumbent president to travel to Europe