Progressive Era Legislation Review

​Progressive Era Legislation Review

By Jacob Evans

Multiple Choice

Reforms of the Progressive era were meant to....

• Improve society

• Help big business grow.

• Increase immigration

Multiple Select

Examples of what Progressive Reforms did: Select all

• Improved working conditions

• Improved city living

• Got rid of corrupt government

• Broke up monopolies.

Multiple Select

Select the problems of monopolies/trusts.

• Gets rid of competition

• Decreases immigration

• Unfair business practices

• Better prices for consumers.

Multiple Choice

What was the goal of anti-trust legislation like the Sherman Anti-trust Act?

• Increase the number of monopolies.

• Break up monopolies

• Improve tenements

Multiple Choice

Which U.S. President became most known as a ¨Trustbuster?¨

• Woodrow Wilson

• Howard Taft

• Teddy Roosevelt

Multiple Choice

Which one of two laws did the federal government do in response to the rotten meats revealed by Upton Sinclair's The Jungle?

• Sherman Antitrust Act

• Pure Food and Drug Act

• Interstate Commerce Act

• Indian Removal Act

Multiple Choice

What was the goal of consumer protection reforms such as the Pure Food and Drug Act?

• To ensure products were safe.

• To help businesses make as much money as possible.

• To encourage monopolies

Multiple Choice

What was the purpose of the Pure Food and Drugs Act of 1906?

• To protect consumers by regulating the food and drug industry.

• To lower the cost of essential foods and drugs for consumers.

• To prevent shortages by regulating the supply of food and drugs.

• To reduce production costs for food and drug manufacturers.

Multiple Choice

How did business and industry view the wilderness of the West?

• It needed to be protected.

• It needed to be conserved.

• It was an endless supply of resources.

Multiple Choice

What began happening to the forests and lands of the West before Roosevelt?

• Business was destroying the land to get resources.

• Nothing, it wasn´t being used.

• Businesses were fighting to protect the land from destruction.

Multiple Choice

What was the goal of Rooseveltś conservation reforms?

• To protect the land and resources.

• To give land to monopolies.

• To give away free land to settlers.

Lesson Takeaways: Industrial Capitalism Reform

• Monopolies needed to be broken up with anti-trust legislation

• Consumers and Workers needed protection

• The land needed to be conserved (protected) from total destruction.

• Government involvement and new legislation (ACTS) helped solve some of these problems.

Open Ended

How did the relationship between the federal government and private business evolve from laissez-faire policies to increased government regulation?