Analyze Progressive Era reforms 1900-1920: women's suffrage 19th Amendment Aug 18 1920 + Black women's struggle for the vote; muckrakers; antitrust; food safety; child labor laws; labor reforms
Exercise
Difficulty 1
~3 min
hist.g8.s.ex_03
Matching
Prompt
Match each reformer to their work: (a) Upton Sinclair; (b) Ida B. Wells; (c) Frances Perkins; (d) Ida Tarbell; (e) Jacob Riis; (f) Mary Church Terrell.
How it's presented
mode
text
Answer criteria
type
matching
correct
- a
- The Jungle 1906 muckraker meatpacking
- b
- Red Record 1895 + Southern Horrors 1892 anti-lynching journalism
- c
- First woman Cabinet secretary 1933 architect of Social Security Act
- d
- Standard Oil 1904 McClure's
- e
- How the Other Half Lives 1890 NYC tenements
- f
- NACW 1896 co-founder + first president
Hints
- Sinclair's target was meatpacking labor; effect was food safety.
- Wells published Red Record + Southern Horrors before 1900.
Misconceptions to watch
- Confusing Tarbell (Standard Oil) with Sinclair (Jungle)
- Forgetting Frances Perkins was first woman Cabinet secretary
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