The Progressive Era: Recap

What event led Americans to question the whole economic system?

• The destruction of the USS Maine

• The Panic of 1893

• The Tulsa race massacre

• The Red Scare

Upton Sinclaire wrote about...

• The Standard Oil Company

• The meatpacking scandal

• The treason of the Senate

• The shame of the cities

What were the main goals of Teddy Roosevelt's "Square Deal"

• Capital consolidation

• Control of corporations

• Consumer protection

• Conservation

Eugene Debs founded the...

• Communist Party

• Bull Moose Party

• Whig Party

• Socialist Party

What were the progressive journalists who exposed political corruption, social injustice and poor working conditions called?

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What were the four main goals of Progressive reformers?

• Protect social welfare, promote moral development, secure economic reform, foster efficiency

• Promote corporate interests, prevent environmental disasters, expand social justice, increase infrastructure spending

• Build a wall, make America great again, lock her up, punish China

• Abolish capitalism, execute the wealthy, establish common ownership of the means of production, expand the vote

The Federal Trade Commission was established to stop companies from...

• False advertising

• Bribery

• Stealing other company's products

• Mis-labeling products

What was trust-busting?

• Breaking up labor unions that had too much power

• The opposite of trust-building

• Vacuuming up trust mites

• Breaking up big companies that had too much power

Sprinklers, longer ladders, and unlocked doors would have saved the victims of what tragic industrial accident?

• Tunguska event

• Deepwater Horizon oil spill

• Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

• Panic of 1893

How did moral reformers want to improve society?

• Prohibiting alcohol

• Banning dancing

• Eliminating music

• Mandating church attendance