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

The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 was intended to

• regulate the stock market
• create a national parks system
• control the nation's money supply
• support a bimetallism currency system

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

The Interstate Commerce Act and the 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

Which progressive reformers would have supported requiring improvements to tenement apartments and clean water in urban slums?

• Ida Tarbell and Carrie Nation
• Woodrow Wilson and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Theodore Roosevelt and Upton Sinclair
• Jacob Riis and Jane Addams

A goal of the Progressive movement from 1890 to 1920 was to

• promote laissez-faire government policies
• correct the problems caused by industrialization
• promote settlement of land west of the Mississippi River
• encourage immigration from southern and eastern Europe

Which Constitutional amendment created the first income tax?

• 16th amendment
• 17th amendment
• 18th amendment
• 19th amendment