Progressives 12-22

This book by Jacob Riis presented visual images of desperate urban poverty.

• How the Other Half Lives
• Shame of the Cities
• The Octopus
• Tortilla Flats

What do we call this "movement" that we are studying?

• Progressive Movement
• Positivity Movement
• Projective Movement
• Productivity Movement

What is a reform?

• A change that takes place to make something better
• A type of cell found in DNA
• A process to secure women's right to vote
• A type of law that means something bad happens

Which of the following was NOT a workplace reform?

• Minimum wage
• Eight Hour Workdays
• Dangerous Working Conditions
• Child Labor Laws

The Progressive Movement worked to...

• Persuade people to move West
• Improve working conditions
• Increase segregation in the South
• Stop the increase of immigration

Which was NOT a major goal of the Progressive Movement of the early 1900s?

• improving safety conditions in the workplace
• reducing working hours
• recycling goods
• placing restrictions on child labor

The Jungle is an example of this style of writing.  It gave gory depictions of the meat packing industry.

• Support Laissez-faire economics
• Control of political machines
• Muckraking
• Jim Crow Laws

Why did journalist like Upton Sinclair publish articles and novels?

• advance their political career
• make Americans aware of social and political problems
• help the Federal Government
• Provide entertainment for readers

Muckrakers were:

• Politicians
• Conservationists
• Suffragists
• Journalists

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