Progressivism

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

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

• The establishment of business combinations 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

Who coined the phrase "Muckrackers"?

• Woodrow Wilson

• Teddy Roosevelt

• Upton Sinclair

• Jacob Riis

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

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

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