Progressive Era Review

Journalists who exposed political, social and economic problems in the United States during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

• Mugwumps

• Muckrakers

• Scalawags

• Yellow Journalists

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 

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

Which president supported progressive ideas such as conservationism and breaking up the Trusts

• William McKinley

• Teddy Roosevelt

• Calvin Coolidge

• Herbert Hoover

Main goal of most muckraking journalists?

• Gain fame through articles of high popular interest

• Expose social and economic problems in need of government intervention

• 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 

Nativists are against...

• Corruption

• African Americans

• Railroads

• Immigrants

The temperance movement warned people of the ____.

• dangers of alcohol
• evils of slavery
• weakness of reform
• need for education

National parks were established for the purpose of

• preserving nature and the environment for future generations

• preventing the pollution of critical forests and waterways

• allowing government management of energy resources

• producing hydroelectric power and controlling flooding in remote regions

This gave women the right to vote.

• 16th Amendment
• 17th Amendment
• 18th Amendment
• 19th Amendment