Progressive Era

What did "trusts" and "vertical integration" do?

• Increased competition
• Decreased competition
• Weakened corporate power
• Increased voter power

How did the labor unions win workplace victories such as reduced working hours?

• Bribery
• Voting
• Strikes
• Petitions

Who were the Knights of Labor?

• a paramilitary group
• a labor union
• a group of corporate leaders
• A group of educational reformers

What did progressive muckrakers want to do with capitalism?

• reform and restrain it
• get rid of it
• Remove restrictions on it

By 1900, what were most American adults?

• Independent farmers
• wage workers
• government employees
• immigrants

What was the big, violent labor riot in 1886 that undermined the reputation of the Knights of Labor

• The Haymarket Square Riot

• The Union Square Riot

• The Sherman Riot

• The Knights' Riot

Are initiatives and referendums examples of representative democracy or direct democracy?

• Representative Democracy
• Direct Democracy

These people combined careful research, vivid writing, and moral outrage to motivate the public to get on board with Progressive changes. 

• Muckrakers
• Populists
• Robber Barons
• Lobbyists

What is suffrage?

• Freedom of speech
• Right to bear arms
• Right to vote
• Torture

What was Teddy Roosevelt's reform program called?

• The New Deal
• Populism
• The Square Deal
• The Big Stick