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Wrote The Jungle, exposing the unsanitary practices of the meatpacking industry
a) Ida B. Wells
b) Upton Sinclair
c) Theodore Rosevelt
d) W.E.B. DuBois

Direct election of U.S. senators
a) 19th Amendment
b) 18th Amendment
c) 17th Amendment
d) 16th Amendment

Supported immediate racial equality and Founded the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
a) Upton Sinclair
b) Ida B. Wells
c) Martin Luther King Jr.
d) W.E.B. DuBois

Raked up the muck or dirt of American life and exposed the corrupt work of business
a) Muckrakers
b) N.A.A.C.P.
c) Federal Reserve System
d) W.E.B. DuBois

Started settlement houses (Hull House) to provide nursing services to help immigrants and with learning English
a) Jane Addams
b) Susan B. Anthony
c) Ida B. Wells
d) Ida Tarbell

Theodore Roosevelt's economic plan that passed laws to protect the consumers during the Progressive Era
a) New Deal
b) Fourteen Points
c) Square Deal
d) Social Security Act

They control the amount of money in circulation in the United States
a) Sherman anti-trust act
b) Federal Reserve System (Act)
c) FDIC
d) Federal Reserve Bank

No state could deny a citizen the right to vote on the basis of sex (women's right to vote)
a) 21st Amendment
b) 19 Amendment
c) 18th Amendment
d) 17th Amendment

Supported women's suffrage (voting); key person in getting the 19th Amendment passed
a) Ida B. Wells
b) Dorathea Lange
c) Susan B. Anthony
d) Elanor Roosevelt

Banning the sale and manufacturing of alcohol
a) 17th Amendment
b) 19th Amendment
c) 18th Amendment
d) 16th Amendment

Laws passed under the Square Deal to protect consumers; passed because of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle
a) Sherman Anti-trust Act
b) Pure Food and Drug Act; Meat Inspection Act
c) Interstate Commerce Act
d) Selective Service Act

African Americans should seek vocational training and gradual racial equality
a) Booker T. Washington
b) Martin Luther King Jr.
c) W.E.B. Dubois
d) Marcus Garvey

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