Progressive Era

Progressive Era

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What belief did Progressives have in common?

• Social Darwinism, that successful people would always rise to the top no matter where they started.

• That the Government should be the organization that should provide for human well-being

• That private churches and charities should be the agent of human welfare.

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Did conservatives agree that the Government should be the agent of human welfare?

• Yes

• No

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laissez-faire

• opposed to government regulation of business

• government should control major industries

• government should be eliminated

• nations should avoid trade

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Did Progressives believe Laissez-Faire capitalism fit in the new industrial age?

• Yes

• No

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Progressive reformers, or muckrakers  known for taking photographs to expose unsafe or unsanitary conditions

• Ida Tarbell and Upton Sinclair
• WEB DuBois and Booker T Washington
• Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine
• Alice Paul and Carrie Catt

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Reporters, journalists, photographers, and authors who used the media to raise concerns about the negative effects of industrialization were known as

• muckrakers
• suffragists
• immigrants
• abolitionists

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Whose book led to the direct passage of the Meat Inspection Act and indirect of the Pure Food and Drug Acts?

• Jacob Riis
• Lewis Hines
• Ida Tarbell
• Upton Sinclair

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In The Jungle, Upton Sinclair exposed

• Dangers faced by coal miners
• Corrupt business practices of the Standard Oil Company
• Unsanitary conditions in the meat-packing industry
• Illegal deals between special interests and the government

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Who wrote the expose piece of literature that revealed the extensive corrupt monopolistic business practices of Standard Oil?

• Ida Tarbell
• Lewis Hines 
• Jacob Riis
• Upton Sinclair

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Key Reforms of the Progressive Era

· Initiative

· Referendum

· Recall

· Direct Primary

· 17^th Amendment

How did the reforms listed above impact the US?

• A system of separate schools for new immigrants

• They gave citizens a greater voice in the democratic process of government

• More sources of revenue and taxes in state governments.

• They successfully brought economic relief to the urban working class

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This amendment provides for the direct election of Senators.

• 16th

• 17th

• 18th

• 19th

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Suffragists included

• Alice Paul

• Susan B Anthony

• Anne Dallas Dudley

• All of the above

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The ratification of this amendment granted women’s suffrage -

• 18^th Amendment

• 19^th Amendment

• 16^th Amendment

• 17^th Amendment

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What was Jane Addams' establishment called?

• The Escape.
• Convalescent Home.
• Hull House.
• The Mansion.

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Who benefited the most from Jane Addams?

• Battered women.
• Poor Immigrants.
• Business Owners.
• Homeless toddlers.

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What amendment did the members of the Temperance movement work to achieve?

• 16th

• 17th

• 18th

• 19th

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Roosevelt’s Square Deal refers to:

• Fair treatment of people in society

• Using the government’s power to help citizens

• Settling issues for the betterment of society

• All of the above

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Teddy Roosevelt was known as a "trust-buster." What does that mean?

• He worked to break up small businesses

• He worked with big monopolies to make them stronger

• He worked to break up large monopolies

• He let the companies operate without any government interference

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The purpose of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act was to

• break up monopolies

• give equal rights to women

• help people living in poverty

• end racism

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Which idea of Theodore Roosevelt’s led to the creation of National Parks?

• Meat Inspection Act
• Preservation
• Conservation
• Intimidation

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What civil service reform legislation led to less corruption in the government because it established a merit-based system for government jobs?

• Interstate Commerce Act

• Pendleton Act

• Teapot Dome Scandel

• Pure Food & Drug Act