US History Review

READ THIS PASSAGE:

“Visiting a tenement is a typical sight. When the summer heats come with their suffering they have meaning more terrible than words can tell. Come over here. Step carefully over this baby--it is a baby, spite of its rags and dirt--under these iron bridges called fire-escapes, but loaded down, despite the incessant watchfulness of the firemen, with broken household goods, with wash-tubs and barrels, over which no man could climb from a fire. No one could escape if fire came. This tenement, holding thousands of poor families huddled together would become a mass grave. But who would notice? This is the refuse of society…”

WHO WOULD MOST LIKELY HAVE SAID THIS?

• Upton Sinclair

• Jacob Riis

• Ida Tarbell

• Lincoln Steffens

This muckraker is known for exposing corruption within the oil industry

• Jacob Riis

• Ida Tarbell

• Jane Addams

The agenda of the Muckrakers was to

• support the Government in making laws to support big business

• speak out against the corruption of the Gilded Age and wanted to improve conditions for the poor

• support monopolists in exploiting children, women, and immigrants workers.

Who would have most likely been the person to write the following:

"Every spring they did it; and in the barrels would be dirt and rust and old nails and stale water – and cartload after cartload of it would be taken up and dumped into the hoppers with fresh meat, and sent out to the public's breakfast."

• Ida Tarbell

• Lincoln Steffens

• Upton Sinclair

During the Progressive Era, Jacob Riis was most well known for

• taking photographs of the living conditions of the poor in tenements

• writing about the horrible conditions in the meat packing plants of Chicago

• operating Hull Houses to assist immigrants with assimilating to American culture.

Teddy Roosevelt was known for

• creating a society where people shared equally in work and assets

• the social gospel movement, helping the poor

• making laws to protect the consumer, called the Square Deal

The goals of the Progressive Movement are

• to create laws to help big businesses, like the Gilded Age

• to fix the bad things from the Gilded Age, including economy, morals & social welfare

• to create a society where the monopolists were able to continue being wealthy and workers had no power.

Teddy Roosevelt is known for these

• Supporting Monopolists & hunting

• Trustbusting & Conserving the Environment

• The Underwood Tariff Act & New Freedom policies

The Progressive Era influenced people’s ideas on the purpose of government because it was based on the idea that

• Lawmakers did not care about the consumer

• Social Darwinism was the key to the success of the country

• One of the government's roles is to protect the general public.

The Pendleton Civil Service Act was created

• help unqualified people obtain jobs

• ensure that jobs were filled by those who showed allegiance to political bosses

• to end corruption in the government