Muckrackers, Jane Addams, and Temperance Movement MHS

Progressivism (Progressive Era)-a response to the negative effects of industrialization. A time of change/reform that started because of overpopulation, big business, industrialization & political corruption.

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What was the Populist Party's platform:

• Coinage of silver, 16th amendment, regulation of railroad, & 17th amendment

• Coinage of Gold, 16th amendment, regulation of railroad, & 17th amendment

• Coinage of silver, 18th amendment, regulation of railroad, & 19th amendment

• Coinage of Gold, 18th amendment, deregulation of railroads, & 19th amendment

• Coinage of silver, 16th amendment, deregulation of railroad, & 17th amendment

Wrote “The Jungle”, resulting in the government regulating the safety of food products, FDA.

• Jane Addams

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Upton Sinclair

• Booker T. Washington

Established Settlement House movement to help assimilate immigrants.

• Jane Addams

• Susan B. Anthony

• Upton Sinclair

• Ida B. Wells

Pure Food and Drug Act

• Created in 1913, the central banking system in the U.S. & gave legal authority to issue money, regulates the economy by adjusting the money supply and interest rates

• passed in 1914, to create the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and to give the U.S. government a full complement of legal tools to use against anticompetitive, unfair, and deceptive practices in the marketplace.

• Government policies protecting consumers, resulted from Muckrakers like Upton Sinclair.

• passed in 1914, stopped corporations from unfair practices and limited the ability of companies to form monopolies; gave labor unions the right to exist.

desire to decrease crime and health problems, resulted in increased crime & speakeasies, women supported prohibition.

• 16th amendment

• 17th amendment

• 18th amendment

• 19th amendment

How did the publication of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle contribute to a change in the relationship between government and business?

• Federal troops were mobilized to break strikes by labor unions.

• Government regulations requiring the inspection of food products were implemented.

• Congress created a regulatory agency to audit railroads.

• Laws were enacted that banned private companies from discriminating when hiring.

Which of these was a major goal of Jane Addams’s Settlement House movement in Chicago?

• The founding of women’s colleges

• The introduction of prison reform

• The assimilation of immigrants

• The establishment of public libraries

Which of these contributed to the ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment?

• Veteran soldiers protesting to obtain benefits

• The growing political influence of women

• Politicians campaigning for education reform

• The growing number of workers organizing into labor unions

Why did the Populist Party want free coinage of silver?

• To increase the amount of money in circulation

• To reduce economic inflation

• To raise campaign contribution limits

• To decrease the bargaining power of labor unions