Topic 3 Lesson 1

Who were progressives?

• reformers who tried to solve social problems

• reformers who wanted to end discrimination

• reformers who wanted better jobs

• reformers who wanted to develop a Communist economy

A Progressive change that ended the back room political machine choosing candidates to run for office, and in its place, had voters choose candidates was called

• direct primaries

• voter choice

• the free election system

• open primaries

The Muckraker journalist who exposed the unsanitary conditions of the meatpacking industry

• Ida Tarbell

• Upton Sinclair

• Jacob Riis

• Lewis Hine

After the negative effects of Industrialization were realized, America started the ________ to try to fix the problems in American society.

• Progressive Movement
• Prohibition Movement
• Suffrage Movement
• Temperance Movement

Which Progressive Era leader, was known as a "trust-buster," but also worked to protect the environment?

• Mother Jones
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Upton Sinclair
• John D. Rockefeller

Progressive leaders fought ____.

• for city parks, safer housing, safer working conditions and sanitation

• for slavery to end in America

• for the growth of factories

• for the 19th amendment

A company that has control over an entire industry is called

• muckraker

• monopoly

• labor union

• robber barron

Progressives wanted to do all of the following EXCEPT:

• encourage environmental conservation and preservation

• decrease the power of the federal government

• limit the power of big business

• protect the health and safety of the public

Campaigns that urged reforms in housing, healthcare, and education grew to the support of Christians that followed the __________________ backed by many Protestant churches. 

• Cult of Domesticity 
• Temperance Movement
• Social Gospel
• Philosophy 

Muckrakers were

• progressive reformers who sought legal changes to problems
• politicians who passed laws cleaning up the "muck" in society
• governors who wanted to get rid of monopolies
• journalists who wrote about the problems in society

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