Progressivism Chapter 17

1906- Wrote The Jungle which exposed the conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry. (Helped pass the Pure Food and Drug Act) 

• Upton Sinclair 
• Lincoln Steffens 
• Jacob Riis 
• Frank Norris 

Journalists who exposed practices of monopolies and big business

• Gump Mushers
• Muckrakers
• Scalawags
• Dirt Diggers

Banning the sale of alcohol was the chief goal of 

• National Women's Suffrage Association
• Women’s Christian Temperance Union
• Bull Moose Party
• Good Government League

Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act were created in part because 

• of the book the Jungle.
• suffragist were protesting the meat packing industry. 
• the 18th Amendment
• Civil Service Act.

Law that requires company to properly label food and medicines

• Medicine Man
• Food Amendment
• Label Lemons
• Pure Food and Drug Act

Loosely linking their reform efforts under a single label, Progressive, was a belief that changes in society were badly needed and that government was the proper agency for correcting social and economic ills

• True
• False

What was the main goal of the women’s rights movement during the Progressive Era?

• starting a system of women’s colleges
• winning elections for public office
• securing the right to vote
• separating men and women in prison

Which president supported progressive ideas such as conservation and the regulation of public health? 

• William McKinley
• Teddy Roosevelt
• Calvin Coolidge
• Herbert Hoover

Main goal of most muckraking journalists?

• Gain fame through articles of high popular interest
• Expose socioeconomic problems in need of political attention
• Increase public awareness of America's great potential
• End corrupt relationships between politicians and big business

One way in which the Chinese Exclusion Act, the Gentlemen’s Agreement, and the National Origins Act were similar is that all were expressions of

• imperialism 
• nativism 
• militarism 
• Manifest Destiny