Unit 6: Progressives Part 2

Unit 6: Progressives Part 2: PRESIDENT TAFT

Multiple Choice

1. Taft was different from Roosevelt in that he didn’t differentiate between

• big and small business; good trust and bad trusts

• small business & good trust

Multiple Choice

1. A belief shared by Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, William Taft, and Woodrow Wilson is that the Federal Government should use its power to regulate

• unfair business practices

• fair business practices

Multiple Choice

A Muckraker is Journalists who exposed corruption in

• big busiess and immigration

• business and politics.

Multiple Choice

What Muckraker wrote about the inequality between the rich and the poor in his book “How the Other Half Live?

• Jacob Riis

• Lewis Hines

Multiple Choice

The purpose of the Children’s Bureau of 1912 was to Investigate and report upon

• the welfare of children

• the conditions of schools

Open Ended

Today you learned about a few problems being addressed in this lesson. Which of those problem-solutions stood out the most and why? Explain as many as you can.