Progressive Era - Summative Study Guide

Question 1

What happened in the United States as a result of Prohibition?

Accepted Answer

Bootleggers and speakeasies became popular

Question 2

What amendment ENDED Prohibition (legal to buy alcohol again)

Accepted Answer

21st Amendment

Question 3

What problems did Prohibition create?

Accepted Answer

Increased crime/violence (Black Market)

Question 4

What did Jacob Riis expose?

Accepted Answer

Dangerous living conditions in tenement housing

Question 5

Why was Facebook sued? (Choose 2)

Accepted Answer

Monopoly with WhatsApp & Instagram, Sherman Anti-Trust Act violation

Question 6

What changed because of Jacob Riis' photos? (Choose 3)

Accepted Answer

Tenements were destroyed, New laws were created, Tenements replaced with parks

Question 7

What was Franklin Tarbell's job?

Accepted Answer

Small OIL business owner

Question 8

What types of things were going into the meat? (Choose 4)

Accepted Answer

Human fingers, Dirt, Dirty Water, Rats

Question 9

What does persuade mean?

Accepted Answer

to convince

Question 10

Why was flash photography so important to Jacob Riis?

Accepted Answer

Allowed light in dark tenements

Question 11

What is a labor union?

Accepted Answer

Organized group of workers to protect workers

Question 12

How did Upton Sinclair learn about problems in the meat industry?

Accepted Answer

Worked as a spy in a meat packing factory

Question 13

What did Ida Tarbell write about? (Choose 2)

Accepted Answer

Railroad companies secret connections, Rockefeller's corruption

Question 14

What did the Tenement Housing Act of 1901 do? (Choose 5)

Accepted Answer

Required indoor bathrooms, Required windows / ventilation, Required indoor lighting, Reduce crowding in housing, Required sinks

Question 15

What amendment was the Prohibition of alcohol?

Accepted Answer

18th Amendment

Question 16

Why did people think that Speakeasies were bad? (Choose 2)

Accepted Answer

Black & white people danced together for the first time, Women acted inappropriately

Question 17

What did the Sullivan-Hoey Fire Prevention Act do? (Choose 3)

Accepted Answer

Required Unlocked Doors, Required Fire Alarms, Required Fire Escape Stairs

Question 18

How did Jacob Riis expose problems in tenement housing?

Accepted Answer

Photography

Question 19

What did the Sherman Anti-Trust Act do?

Accepted Answer

Divided up monopoly business

Question 20

How did Labor Unions protest?

Accepted Answer

Go on Strike!

Question 21

What did Ida Tarbell expose?

Accepted Answer

Corruption in the Oil business (ROCKEFELLER)

Question 22

Why was Susan B. Anthony arrested?

Accepted Answer

She voted illegally

Question 23

How did women win the right to vote?

Accepted Answer

Men in Congress voted for the 19th Amendment

Question 24

How is Prohibition and NASCAR connected?

Accepted Answer

Fixed engines to be faster to escape police

Question 25

What did Muckrakers do?

Accepted Answer

Expose Corruption

Question 26

What law did Ida Tarbell help create?

Accepted Answer

Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890

Question 27

What did Upton Sinclair expose?

Accepted Answer

Disgusting practices in meat packing factories

Question 28

When did white women earn the right to vote?

Accepted Answer

1920

Question 29

Who was allowed to vote in 1776? (Beginning of USA)

Accepted Answer

White men

Question 30

What was Jacob Riis's book called?

Accepted Answer

How the Other Half Lives

Question 31

How did Prohibition change the world? (Choose 3)

Accepted Answer

White & Black people went to same bars (race integration), Women discovered more liberty, Increased organized crime (mafia)

Question 32

How did women protest for right to vote?

Accepted Answer

Picket at White House, Marches / Parades, Hunger Strike

Question 33

What did the Fair Labor Standards Act do? (Choose 4)

Accepted Answer

Created minimum wage (minimum $$/hour), Increased safety for workers, Ended Child Labor, Created weekend (5-day work week)

Question 34

What 2 laws did Upton Sinclair help create?

Accepted Answer

Pure Food & Drug Act of 1906, Meat Inspection Act of 1906

Question 35

What was Jacob Riis' job?

Accepted Answer

Muckraker, Journalist

Question 36

What did the Pure Food & Drug Act of 1906 do? (Choose 2)

Accepted Answer

Inspected Food and Medicine for Safety, Created the FDA

Question 37

How did Upton Sinclair's book "The Jungle" change the world?

Accepted Answer

New laws about food safety

Question 38

What does suffrage mean?

Accepted Answer

The right to vote

Question 39

Why did people want to make alcohol illegal?

Accepted Answer

Men spent all the family money on alcohol, Alcohol caused problems & crime

Question 40

What was “Prohibition?” (18th Amendment)

Accepted Answer

People could NOT buy, sell or transport alcohol

Question 41

What law did Jacob Riis help create?

Accepted Answer

Tenement Housing Act of 1901

Question 42

Why was Ida B. Wells excluded from Women's Suffrage events?

Accepted Answer

She was Black

Question 43

Who inspired (helped) women protest for Voting Rights?

Accepted Answer

Muckrakers

Question 44

Why did workers create labor unions? (Choose 4)

Accepted Answer

improve wages ($$), to stop child labor, to organize strikes (huelga!) to protest, to end unsafe working conditions

Question 45

What was the 2nd state to give women the right to vote? (1893)

Accepted Answer

Colorado

Question 46

What did Jacob Riis do with his photographs? (Choose 2)

Accepted Answer

Published a book called "How the Other Half Lives", Showed them to rich people

Question 47

What was Ida Tarbell's job? (Choose 2)

Accepted Answer

Muckraker, Journalist

Question 48

What happened during the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire? (Choose 4)

Accepted Answer

No fire escape caused many deaths, 146 women & girls killed, Locked doors caused many deaths, No fire alarms stopped people from escaping

Question 49

Who won the court case "Facebook vs. United States"?

Accepted Answer

Facebook

Question 50

What do people use oil for? (Choose 3)

Accepted Answer

Gas for cars, Lighting, Heat

Question 51

What other types of things were going into the meat? (Choose 4)

Accepted Answer

Dirt, Poop / Feces, Human fingers, Rusty Nails

Question 52

People who wanted alcohol to be ILLEGAL....

Accepted Answer

The Drys

Question 53

Why did women want the right to vote? (Choose 3)

Accepted Answer

Women wanted to vote for Prohibition, Women wanted equality / more opportunities, Women wanted a voice in the government

Question 54

When did Women's Suffrage begin? (Seneca Falls Convention)

Accepted Answer

1848

Question 55

What did Jacob Riis do in the tenements? (Choose 2)

Accepted Answer

Expose the truth of poverty, Take photographs

Question 56

What is a Speakeasy?

Accepted Answer

Illegal bar

Question 57

Who helped create Labor Unions?

Accepted Answer

Workers

Question 58

Jacob Riis, Ida Tarbell and Upton Sinclair are examples of...

Accepted Answer

Muckrakers

Question 59

During Prohibition in the U.S., what was illegal? (1920-1933)

Accepted Answer

Alcohol

Question 60

________ illegally moved alcohol during Prohibition...

Accepted Answer

Bootleggers

Question 61

What was Ida Tarbell's book called?

Accepted Answer

History of the Standard Oil Company

Question 62

What was the 1st state to give women the right to vote? (1893)

Accepted Answer

Wyoming

Question 63

Where did women protest for suffrage rights? (Choose 2)

Accepted Answer

Prison (Hunger Strikes), The White House

Question 64

What laws did Labor Unions help create? (Choose 2)

Accepted Answer

Fair Labor Standards Act, Sullivan-Hoey Fire Prevention Act

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