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Ninth Grade (Grade 9) Progressive Era Questions

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Grade 9 Progressive Era
Who published “How the Other Half Live”?
  1. Booker T. Washington
  2. Ida Tarbell
  3. Jacob Riis
  4. Jane Addams
Grade 9 Progressive Era
Which of the following was NOT a muckraker?
  1. Ida Tarbell
  2. Upton Sinclair
  3. Jacob Riis
  4. Robert LaFollete
Grade 9 Progressive Era

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The nickname given to journalists and writers who attempted to expose problems in government and business
  1. muckrakers
  2. socialists
  3. imperialists
  4. carpetbaggers
Grade 9 Progressive Era
Which of the following does NOT describe the Progressive Movement?
  1. progressives favored government regulation to protect the public
  2. concerned with social and economic conditions like poverty in the cities
  3. represented the upper class and wealthy
  4. wanted stronger state and national government
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The Progressive Movement was concern mostly with
  1. helping the nation adjust to the changes in society brought by industrialization and urbanization
  2. expanding the civil rights of minorities
  3. healing the split caused by the Civil war
  4. controlling the ups and downs of the economy
Grade 9 Progressive Era
Which government body created during the Progressive Era now regulates buying on the Internet?
  1. Federal Trade Commission FTC
  2. Federal Reserve Board
  3. Food and Drug Administration FDA
  4. National Consumers League NCL
Grade 9 Progressive Era
Unsanitary (dirty) conditions in the meatpacking industry were first exposed by
  1. President Cleveland
  2. muckraker, Upton Sinclair
  3. Suffragist, Susan B. Anthony
  4. Scientist, Louis Pasteur
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In the early twentieth century, muckrakers were able to influence American society mainly through their
  1. frequent acts of civil disobedience.
  2. activities as government officials.
  3. publishing of articles and books.
  4. control over factories.