Progressive Exam review

Question 1

The Jungle

Answer 1

exposed working conditions in Chicago’s meatpacking industry, Upton Sinclair

Question 2

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

Answer 2

women’s shirt factory, caught fire and trapped them inside, 146 people died

Question 3

New Immigration

Answer 3

Southern and Eastern Europe

Question 4

Upton Sinclair

Answer 4

wrote The Jungle , advocated for clean conditions in meat industry, muckraker

Question 5

progressive party nickname

Answer 5

Election 1912 Bull Moose Party

Question 6

Homer Plessy

Answer 6

⅛ black, defied black segregation in law, the separate car act

Question 7

18

Answer 7

alcohol prohibition

Question 8

Muckrakers

Answer 8

journalists who wanted to expose corruption in established institutions and cities

Question 9

How the Other Half Lives

Answer 9

Jacob Riis, exposed poverty, housing crisis, education after European immigration in cities

Question 10

16

Answer 10

allows congress to make income tax without deciding based on population

Question 11

15

Answer 11

let’s all male citizens to vote including blacks

Question 12

Initiative/Referendum/Recall

Answer 12

people who want to change something in politics or society now, sooner, by voting

Question 13

Ida Tarbell

Answer 13

journalist who exposed the rich, revealing the monopoly that Rockefeller has over oil industry

Question 14

Square Deal

Answer 14

made by Theodore Roosevelt, Conservation of natural land, control of corporations, protection of consumer

Question 15

Temperance

Answer 15

law banning alcohol consumption

Question 16

Federal Reserve Act

Answer 16

protected US economy by having the central bank oversee monetary policy (max employment, stable prices and interest rates)

Question 17

Pure Food and Drug Act

Answer 17

food companies have to be inspected and tested before going out to public

Question 18

History Standard Oil Company

Answer 18

Ida Tarbell, exposed Rockefeller for unethical tactics in business: monopoly, wrote about personal experience: father was run out of oil business

Question 19

Worker Conditions

Answer 19

dangerous: physical injuries, illness, unsafe/ unclean, long work hours, unfair pay

Question 20

Dawes Act

Answer 20

gave native americans rights to live on US land through assimilation

Question 21

19

Answer 21

women’s right to vote, women’s suffrage

Question 22

17

Answer 22

each state gets 2 senators elected by the people, each senator is one vote

Question 23

Populist party

Answer 23

wanted to use gold and silver so that farmers could make profit from crops

Question 24

assimilation

Answer 24

indoctrination of natives into white culture

Question 25

Jacob Riis

Answer 25

journalized and took photos exposing serious poverty in cities, muckraker

Question 26

Old Immigration

Answer 26

Northern and Western Europe

Question 27

Meat Inspection Act

Answer 27

prevented tainted (unclean) food from being sold without public notice

Question 28

14

Answer 28

gave equal rights and citizenship to all born in US