HIS 144 THE LEGACY OF THE PROGRESSIVE
ERA EXAM QUESTION AND CORRECT
ANSWERS UPDATED 2026 VERSION GRADED A+
Jane Addams - ANSWER✔️Social reformer who worked to improve the lives of the working
class. In 1889 she founded Hull House in Chicago, the first private social welfare agency in the
U.S., to assist the poor, combat juvenile delinquency and help immigrants learn to speak English.
Jacob Riis - ANSWER✔️Wrote "How the Other Half Lives" that told the public about the lives of
the immigrants and those who lived in the tenement housing.
Meat Inspection Act - ANSWER✔️1906 law that allowed the federal government to inspect meat
sold across state lines and required federal inspection of meat processing plants.
Ida Tarbell - ANSWER✔️She was one of the leading "muckrakers" of the progressive era who
exposed corruption in the Standard Oil Company.
Recall - ANSWER✔️Process by which voters can remove elected officials from the office before
their terms end.
Referendum - ANSWER✔️Process that allows citizens to approve or reject a law passed by
legislature.
, Which African American leader helped found the Niagara Movement? - ANSWER✔️W. E. B.
Du Bois
What is a primary goal of conservationism? - ANSWER✔️to protect natural resources
W E B DuBois - ANSWER✔️first AA to receive doctorate from Harvard thought AA should
fight social equality and gain rights
Muckraker - ANSWER✔️1906 - Journalists who searched for corruption in politics and big
business
Susan B Anthony - ANSWER✔️social reformer who campaigned for womens rights, the
temperance, and was an abolitionist, helped form the National Woman Suffrage Assosiation
Suffrage - ANSWER✔️right to vote
Teddy Roosevelt - ANSWER✔️26th President, from 1901-1909, passed two acts that purified
meat, took over in 1901 when McKinley was shot, Went after trusts, formed the "Bull Moose
Party", wanted to build the Panama Canal, and make our Navy (military stronger) trustbuster
Pure Food and Drug Act - ANSWER✔️1906 - Forbade the manufacture or sale of mislabeled or
adulterated food or drugs, it gave the government broad powers to ensure the safety and efficacy
of drugs in order to abolish the "patent" drug trade. Still in existence as the FDA.
Use the excerpt from Theodore Roosevelt's New Nationalism speech to answer the question.
Of all the questions which can come before this nation . . . there is none which compares in
importance with the great central task of leaving this land even a better land for our descendants
than it is for us. . . . Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of
insuring the safety and continuance of the nation. Let me add that the health and vitality of our
people are at least as well worth conserving as their forests, waters, lands, and minerals, and in
this great work the national government must bear a most important part.
What is Roosevelt's purpose in this statement? - ANSWER✔️to persuade
Standard Oil Co. v. United States (1911) - ANSWER✔️The case dissolved a monopoly of the oil
industry that had engaged in abusive business practices.
Lochner v. New York (1905) - ANSWER✔️The case found that state limitations on workers'
hours violated their "freedom to contract"
Northern Securities Co. v. United States (1904) - ANSWER✔️The case upheld breaking up the
monopoly controlling railroad lines from Chicago to the Pacific Northwest.
ERA EXAM QUESTION AND CORRECT
ANSWERS UPDATED 2026 VERSION GRADED A+
Jane Addams - ANSWER✔️Social reformer who worked to improve the lives of the working
class. In 1889 she founded Hull House in Chicago, the first private social welfare agency in the
U.S., to assist the poor, combat juvenile delinquency and help immigrants learn to speak English.
Jacob Riis - ANSWER✔️Wrote "How the Other Half Lives" that told the public about the lives of
the immigrants and those who lived in the tenement housing.
Meat Inspection Act - ANSWER✔️1906 law that allowed the federal government to inspect meat
sold across state lines and required federal inspection of meat processing plants.
Ida Tarbell - ANSWER✔️She was one of the leading "muckrakers" of the progressive era who
exposed corruption in the Standard Oil Company.
Recall - ANSWER✔️Process by which voters can remove elected officials from the office before
their terms end.
Referendum - ANSWER✔️Process that allows citizens to approve or reject a law passed by
legislature.
, Which African American leader helped found the Niagara Movement? - ANSWER✔️W. E. B.
Du Bois
What is a primary goal of conservationism? - ANSWER✔️to protect natural resources
W E B DuBois - ANSWER✔️first AA to receive doctorate from Harvard thought AA should
fight social equality and gain rights
Muckraker - ANSWER✔️1906 - Journalists who searched for corruption in politics and big
business
Susan B Anthony - ANSWER✔️social reformer who campaigned for womens rights, the
temperance, and was an abolitionist, helped form the National Woman Suffrage Assosiation
Suffrage - ANSWER✔️right to vote
Teddy Roosevelt - ANSWER✔️26th President, from 1901-1909, passed two acts that purified
meat, took over in 1901 when McKinley was shot, Went after trusts, formed the "Bull Moose
Party", wanted to build the Panama Canal, and make our Navy (military stronger) trustbuster
Pure Food and Drug Act - ANSWER✔️1906 - Forbade the manufacture or sale of mislabeled or
adulterated food or drugs, it gave the government broad powers to ensure the safety and efficacy
of drugs in order to abolish the "patent" drug trade. Still in existence as the FDA.
Use the excerpt from Theodore Roosevelt's New Nationalism speech to answer the question.
Of all the questions which can come before this nation . . . there is none which compares in
importance with the great central task of leaving this land even a better land for our descendants
than it is for us. . . . Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of
insuring the safety and continuance of the nation. Let me add that the health and vitality of our
people are at least as well worth conserving as their forests, waters, lands, and minerals, and in
this great work the national government must bear a most important part.
What is Roosevelt's purpose in this statement? - ANSWER✔️to persuade
Standard Oil Co. v. United States (1911) - ANSWER✔️The case dissolved a monopoly of the oil
industry that had engaged in abusive business practices.
Lochner v. New York (1905) - ANSWER✔️The case found that state limitations on workers'
hours violated their "freedom to contract"
Northern Securities Co. v. United States (1904) - ANSWER✔️The case upheld breaking up the
monopoly controlling railroad lines from Chicago to the Pacific Northwest.
