Progressive Formative

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1. Author of The Jungle, which exposed the horrors of the meat packaging industry

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2. A leader in the battle against child labor

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3. Author of articles detailing the ruthless rise to power of Standard Oil

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4. Fought for African-Americans to earn equality through voting rights

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5. Leader in anti-lynching movement

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6. Upton Sinclair based his novel The Jungle on

assumptions he made about the meatpacking industry after eating spoiled meat

a diary he found that was written by the owner of a meatpacking plant

letters received from disgruntled workers in the meatpacking industry

close observation of how workers in the meatpacking industry lived & worked

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7. As a result of the direct primary, the power to nominate and select candidates passed from

The Machine Bosses to the Electorate (the people)

The Electorate to the Machine Bosses

The Machine Bosses to the Governor

The Governor to the Machine Bosses

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8. Which of the following was NOT a result of the Meat Inspection Act of 1906?

Required that meat be dated

Outlawed misleading labels

Outlawed dangerous chemical preservatives

Required the government to pay for meat inspections

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9. Teddy Roosevelt backed efforts to save the nation’s forests by

deregulating lumbering on Federal lands

rejecting the construction of reclamation projects

allowing farmers to expand their irrigation systems

preventing short-sighted lumbering companies from over cutting

Source:

This photograph shows “breaker boys” at a coal mine in Pennsylvania in 1911. Their job was to break coal from other rocks. The photograph was taken by Lewis Hine, who had been hired to take the photograph by the National Child Labor Committee, an organization that opposed child labor.

"Breaker Boys"

Photographed by: Lewis Hine

Date: 1911

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10. How might the photograph be useful as evidence of the working conditions of children in the Pennsylvania coal mines?

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Progressive Formative

1. Author of The Jungle, which exposed the horrors of the meat packaging industry

2. A leader in the battle against child labor

3. Author of articles detailing the ruthless rise to power of Standard Oil

4. Fought for African-Americans to earn equality through voting rights

5. Leader in anti-lynching movement

6. Upton Sinclair based his novel The Jungle on

7. As a result of the direct primary, the power to nominate and select candidates passed from

8. Which of the following was NOT a result of the Meat Inspection Act of 1906?

9. Teddy Roosevelt backed efforts to save the nation’s forests by

10. How might the photograph be useful as evidence of the working conditions of children in the Pennsylvania coal mines?

11. What about this source might make it less useful as evidence of the working conditions of children in the Pennsylvania coal mines?

1. Author of The Jungle, which exposed the horrors of the meat packaging industry

2. A leader in the battle against child labor

3. Author of articles detailing the ruthless rise to power of Standard Oil

4. Fought for African-Americans to earn equality through voting rights

5. Leader in anti-lynching movement

6. Upton Sinclair based his novel The Jungle on

7. As a result of the direct primary, the power to nominate and select candidates passed from

8. Which of the following was NOT a result of the Meat Inspection Act of 1906?

9. Teddy Roosevelt backed efforts to save the nation’s forests by

10. How might the photograph be useful as evidence of the working conditions of children in the Pennsylvania coal mines?

11. What about this source might make it less useful as evidence of the working conditions of children in the Pennsylvania coal mines?