Progressivism

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

• William McKinley

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Calvin Coolidge

• Herbert Hoover

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

How did the 17th amendment change how our Congressional representation worked?

• Direct Election of Senators

• Direct Election of Governors

• Direct Election of the US President

• Direct Election of Mayors

The law that increased government control over monopolies in the US was passed in 1914. It was called the

• Clayton Anti-Trust Act

• Federal Trade Commission Act

• Keating-Owens Act

• Federal Highway Act

What is a muckraker?

• City workers who cleaned the streets in order to make more sanitary cities
• Writers who exposed political and business corruption in the Progressive Era
• Corrupt politicians and businessmen
• Immigrants who took jobs from individuals who were striking

Journalists called muckrakers and urban photographers exposed people

• to the plight of the unfortunate in hopes of sparking reform.

• the difficulties entrepreneurs faced in hopes of sparking reform.

• to the plight of the unfortunate in hopes of sparking a social purge of the weak.

• the difficulties millionaires faced in hopes of sparking reform.

~Upton Sinclair exposed the unhealthy practices of Chicago's meat-packing plants

~Ida Tarbell revealed the dishonest business tactics of Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company

~Jacob Riis wrote How the Other Half Lives, showing the conditions of the residents of New York City tenements

What was the impact of these muckraking activities during the early 1900s?

• Society changed in response to their promotion of Social Darwinism

• Voters agreed to let big business owner create more profitable monopolies

• Reports of their works in publications abroad caused a decline in immigration

• Public reaction to their books led to new laws addressing the abuses of industrialization

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.

National parks were established for the purpose of

• protecting natural wonders from human destruction

• preventing the overuse of all forests and waterways

• allowing government management of energy resources

• producing hydroelectric power and controlling flooding in remote regions

Which condition most directly led to the passage of the Sherman Antitrust act?

• The establishment of business monopolies that dominated industry

• The popularity of the Socialist Party of the United States

• The successful efforts of union leaders to organize American workers

• The high unemployment rate following an economic crisis