8.1: Progressive Era Reforms

Jacob Riis' book How the Other Half Lives exposed what?

• working conditions for child laborers
• the lack of sanitation in the meat packing industry
• urban poverty and life in the slums
• the problems created by alcohol abuse

Muckrakers Ida Tarbell and Upton Sinclair influenced the federal government to

• end racial discrimination in the workplace
• grant citizenship to people who had entered the country illegally
• pass legislation to correct harmful business practices
• force individual states to regulate monopolies

In 1906, the publication of Upton Sinclair's book The Jungle led Congress to

• support the national conservation movement
• create the Meat Inspection Act
• pass stronger prohibition laws
• legalize strikes and boycotts by labor unions

Investigative journalists who exposed corruption and dangerous practices of the nation’s businesses were known as

• progressives
• muckrakers
• socialists
• scalawags

Who wrote The History of Standard Oil which revealed Rockefeller’s ruthless business practices and called for the break-up of large monopolies?

• Upton Sinclair
• Ida Tarbell
• Carrie Nation
• Jocob Riis

Sherman Anti-Trust Act were attempts by Congress to

• Protect consumers against unsafe products

• Let the government control and own national transportation services

• Regulate the activities of big business

• Impose government regulations on products made by farmers

Florence Kelley would have MOST supported which presidential decision in the Progressive era?

• Theodore Roosevelt's conservation of millions of acres of national forests
• Woodrow Wilson's creation of the Clayton Anti-Trust Act
• William Howard Taft's creation of a Children's Bureau and child labor laws
• Theodore Roosevelt's break-up of Northern Securities monopoly

Jane Addams is best known for

• starting Hull House in Chicago which helped poor people living in slums
• leading the fight against alcohol abuse
• helping to create child labor laws and protections for women
• printing What Every Mother Should Know, which advocated birth control

Which progressive reform allowed citizens to vote for an initiative?

• direct election of senators

• referendum

• direct primary elections

• initiative

Formed in 1909 by W.E.B DuBois to protect Constitutional Amendments for African Americans.

• Conservation Movement

• NAACP

• Hull House

• Jim Crow Laws