Progressive Era Quiz #1

Period of time when many people tried to reform (change/improve) different areas of American life

• Urbanization Movement

• Industrialization Movement

• Progressive Movement

When everything looked to be great in the United States but really the average American was struggling

• The Gilded Age

• The Industrialization Age

• The Progressive Age

To reform something means what?

• to make it worse

• to change or improve

• to make it cooler

A term coined for journalists who "raked up" and exposed the corruption and problems of society

• muckrakers

• shovels

• newspaper editors

Wrote The Jungle that exposed the meat packing industry

• Lewis Hines

• Jacob Riis

• Upton Sinclair

Children working dangerous jobs for low wages. What area of reform does this problem fall under?

• Working Condtions

• Child Labor

• Environment

• Urban Life

Famous muckraker who exposed the problem of child labor through photographs

• Jacob Riis

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Lewis Hines

This Progressive President grew the National Park system to help stop pollution from the Industrialization time period

• Woodrow Wilson

• William Howard Taft

• Theodore Roosevelt

What was the problem with government during the Progressive Era?

• corruption; governments were ran by political machines

• nothing; government was perfect

• corruption; government was great

Public lands are protected by the government

• National Lands System

• National Parks System

• National Government System