Progressive Era: P 1-4 Muckrakers

The muckrakers provided a service to the public in the early 20th century by

• advocating a strong military

• exposing abuses in business and government

• calling for a stronger use of executive power to strengthen civil rights laws

• arousing states to resist federal authority

The writings of muckrakers of the late 19th century had the most direct impact on

• efforts to increase public education in the South

• the struggle for women's rights

• reform in the area of factory working conditions

• elimination of segregation in the South

A major goal of the Progressive movement was to

• increase the influence of corporations on government

• reduce the surpluses produced by farmers

• encourage the growth of labor unions

• eliminate unfair business practices

Jane Addams, Lillian Wald, and Jacob Riis are best known as

• social reformers

• leaders of industry

• congressional leaders

• inventors

Which helped to bring about the enactment of Federal meat inspection laws in the Progressive Era?

• a decline in farm exports

• economic demands of the cattlemen

• writings of the muckrakers

• the unhealthy condition of newly arrived immigrants

During the Progressive Era, the muckrakers were most effective in reaching the public through their

• novels and articles in the popular press

• leadership roles in powerful corporations

• congressional proposals

• participation in political campaigns

A goal of both the Populists and the Progressives was to

• repeal Jim Crow laws and achieve racial equality

• guarantee labor's right to collective bargaining

• reduce the power of big business over the economy

• achieve withdrawal of Federal troops from the former Confederate States

The primary stimulus to social and economic reforms during the Progressive Era came from

• the Supreme Court

• authors and social activists

• the leadership of the two national parties

• bankers and industrialists

With which statement would the muckrakers most likely have agreed?

• Government has a responsibility to protect corporations from foreign competition.

• The results of governmental decision making are more important than how those results were achieved.

• The media has no business prying into the private life of a Presidential candidate.

• Honesty and ethics in government must be demanded by the people.

Jacob Riis' photographs and the Settlement House movement led by Jane Addams drew attention to the needs of the

• freedmen immediately after the Civil War

• farmers in the 1880s and 1890s

• urban poor in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

• Japanese and Chinese laborers in the late 1800s