The Progressives

The picture above shows Jane Adams with some of the children being served by Hull House in Chicago, Illinois.

What goal of the Progressive Era is represented by this image and the existence of Hull House?

• Fostering efficiency.
• Protecting social welfare.
• Creating economic reform.
• Promoting moral improvement.

What was the purpose of the Federal Reserve System?

• To keep better track of government income and expenditure.
• To meet the demands of Populists and Progressives for bimetallism.
• To reassure bondholders that America would remain on the gold standard.
• To regulate banks and create a more elastic currency.

Based on your knowledge of written works in the late 19^th and early 20^th centuries, which of the following most likely inspired the demand being made by the women pictured?

• The Great American Fraud by Samuel Hopkins Adams.
• The Shame of Cities by Lincoln Steffens.
• The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.
• How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis.

"When I say I believe in a square deal, I do not mean to give every man the best hand. If good cards do not come to any man, or if they do come, and he has not got the power to play them, that is his affair. All I mean is that there shall be no crookedness in the dealing."—Theodore Roosevelt, 1905 

The Square Deal that President Roosevelt describes insured that small business owners would 

• Receive a return on their investment.
• Be given fair opportunities to compete.
• Have what they needed in order to start up.
• Compete successfully with large businesses.

A major purpose of the Progressive movement (1900–1917) was to

• stimulate the economy.
• support government control of factory production.
• encourage immigration from southern and eastern Europe.
• correct the economic and social abuses of industrial society.