US History Progressive Era Review

Regulations aimed at maintaining quality and safety in the meat-packing industry began due to

• Invisible man by Ralph Ellison
• The Jungleby Upton Sinclair
  
• Cannery Row by John Stienbeck
• Slaughterhouse fiveby Kurt Vonnegurt

The Progressive movement's goal of taxation reform resulted in

• 16th Amendment
• 18th Amendment
• Dawes Act
• The Primary System

One of the major goals of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 was to

• limit the amount of sugar in snack products
• protect farmers from bankruptcy
• control the price put on beverages
• ensure the products were labeled accurately

The Progressive movement of the early twentieth century was least successful on the issue of

• women's voting rights
• alcohol prohibition
• civil rights for racial minorities
  
• child labor reform

Theodore Roosevelt believed it was important to set aside public land because

• predicted a need for it as the population grew
• wanted it left unchanged for future generations
• wanted to mine for its substantial mineral resources
• saw it as a place to resettle American Indians

 Why was the rise of labor unions in the nineteenth century regarded as a threat to businesses

• made employees less dedicated to their jobs
• It took away the power of businesses to hire who they wanted
• it gave workers much greater negotiating strength
  
• it would determine what goods could be produced

Which statement describes an effect of the Clayton Anti-trust Act

• it facilitated numerous business mergers
• it established guidelines for price discrimination
• it empowered an organization to address trade violations
• it prevented the formation of new business monolopies
  

What was the purpose of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890

• to oppose monopolistic business practices
  
• to redistribute the wealth to the poor
• to protect the rights of investors
• to insure compliance with tax laws

Migration to American cities in the late nineteenth century led to

• a decrease in social services
• an increase in unemployment rates
• an increase in disease
• a decrease in farm output

How did Jane Addams help address the plight of Chicago’s poor? 

• convinced Roosevelt to build shelters for the poor
• established settlement houses that offered social/education 
  
• she joined the women's suffrage movement
• she traveled to Europe to visit Tonybee hall