Progressive Era Review

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President Theodore Roosevelt earned the nickname “Trust Buster” because he:

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Broke up harmful monopolies and regulated others

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Roosevelt’s policy toward trusts was that -

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Good trusts should be controlled; bad trusts broken up

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The book The Jungle by Upton Sinclair exposed -

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Unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industries

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The public reaction to The Jungle led to -

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The Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)

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Muckrakers were -

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Journalists who exposed corruption and abuses

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Ida Tarbell became famous for exposing -

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John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company

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Lincoln Steffens exposed -

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Corruption in city governments

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The Sherman Antitrust Act (1890) was passed mainly to  -

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Prevent formation of business monopolies

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The terms initiative, referendum, and recall were reforms intended to -

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Give voters more direct control over government

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From this image, who is in control of the US lawmakers?

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Large monopolies