Weigel M6 Progressive Era

Question 1

What book is a good Christmas gift according to Mr. Weigel ?

Accepted Answer

The Devil in the White City

Question 2

What was the major aim of the progressive movement (1900-1920)?

Accepted Answer

Improve industry conditions and reform politics

Question 3

What president is NOT considered a progressive president? HINT: was killed in Buffalo

Accepted Answer

William McKinley

Question 4

Journalists, photographers, social change, newspapers, investigators

Accepted Answer

Muckrakers

Question 5

Chronologiocal order of the progressive presidents terms

Accepted Answer

Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson

Question 6

What muckraker took this photo?

Accepted Answer

Jacob Riis

Question 7

All of the following fought for women&#x27;s suffrage EXCEPT

Accepted Answer

Madeline Albright

Question 8

Who used photography to show "how the other half lived" in the slums and tenements?

Accepted Answer

Jacob Riis

Question 9

The following are true of the Jungle EXCEPT

Accepted Answer

Banned by the government

Question 10

What happened in 1911 at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory located in New York City ?

Accepted Answer

A fire that killed 146

Question 11

Plessy V. Ferguson (1896) decided what?

Accepted Answer

Separate but equal is equal?

Question 12

Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall were from which city?

Accepted Answer

New York City

Question 13

What amendment to the Constitution gives women suffrage?

Accepted Answer

19th

Question 14

The book The Jungle is important because

Accepted Answer

it molded public opinion about an industry

Question 15

What important female would go and destroy alcohol in saloons?

Accepted Answer

Carry Nation

Question 16

What did Leon Czolgosz do?

Accepted Answer

Shot William McKinley

Question 17

Settlement houses, Chicago, women, immigrants

Accepted Answer

Jane Addams

Question 18

Who was the founder of Hull House and helped women and immigrants?

Accepted Answer

Jane Addams

Question 19

All of the following are characteristics of Booker T. Washington except

Accepted Answer

Rapid equality for African Americans

Question 20

Where was the convention for women's rights in 1848?

Accepted Answer

Seneca Falls, NY

Question 21

Which person used a political machine called Tammany Hall to increase his own wealth and power?

Accepted Answer

Boss Tweed

Question 22

Who started the Bull-Moose Party after not receiving the republican nomination?

Accepted Answer

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 23

What is true of the followig: •Common Sense (1776)•Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)•The Jungle (1906)•Silent Spring (1962)

Accepted Answer

Books that altered public opinion

Question 24

What is the best definition of "political machine"?

Accepted Answer

A local organization that controls votes and has government influence

Question 25

This woman was arrested, went on a hunger strike and was force fed

Accepted Answer

Alice Paul

Question 26

Who took this photo of the grain elevators?

Accepted Answer

Kevin Weigel

Question 27

Companies that join together to limit competition by controlling production and distribution?

Accepted Answer

trust

Question 28

Who's book about the meatpacking industry is credited with starting modern food labeling?

Accepted Answer

Upton Sinclair

Question 29

He wrote The Jungle about the immigrant experience in Chicago

Accepted Answer

Upton Sinclair

Question 30

To pursue reforms in society, business, or politics is to be

Accepted Answer

progressive

Question 31

What was prohibition?

Accepted Answer

18th Amendment banning alcohol

Question 32

Who? Trustbuster, Conservation, Square Deal, Rough Rider

Accepted Answer

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 33

What was 10 Days in Mad-House about?

Accepted Answer

Mental health asylums

Question 34

As a conservationist, president responsible for Yellowstone?

Accepted Answer

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 35

Why are senators directly elected today?

Accepted Answer

Progressive democratic amendment

Question 36

Segregationist, president of Princeton, created Federal Reserve

Accepted Answer

W. Wilson

Question 37

What is true of the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo in 1901

Accepted Answer

Demolition of virtually all of the buildings, Contents of the fair were auctioned off for $80,000, A president was assassinated there, It was electrified

Question 38

The Wilcox Mansion, location of Theodore Roosevelt's inauguration is in what city?

Accepted Answer

Buffalo, NY

Question 39

How the Other Half Lives is a book about?

Accepted Answer

urban Reform

Question 40

Writers and photographers who exposed corruption and living conditions

Accepted Answer

Muckrakers

Question 41

The people who sought to expose the wrongs in society through photos and journalism were the

Accepted Answer

muckrakers

Question 42

What was a critical poltical reform during the progressive era?

Accepted Answer

direct election of senators

Question 43

This progressive president had a Brown Belt in judo, was a taxidermist and attended Harvard

Accepted Answer

Mr. Terhune or T Roosevelt.

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