Quiz #1-Progressive Era

In 1906, Upton Sinclair's novel THE JUNGLE exposed dangerous workplace conditions

• for women in textiles.

• in the meat packing industry.

• for children working long hours.

• for miners.

Journalists known as muckrakers worked at

• praising government policies.

• exposing political and business corruption.

• attacking the ideas of socialists.

• opposing government regulation of business.

One goal that progressives did not seek was

• the moral improvement of society.

• the reduction of government corruption.

• a ban on strikes.

• child labor laws.

Roosevelt's response to the Jungle was

• fire management from bad factories.

• government takeover of meat packing facilities

• the closer of all meatpacking plants in the nation.

• going vegan.

All of the following were reasons for the progressive era EXCEPT

• Industrialization

• Immigration

• Urbanization

• Vertical Consolidation

The writer of PROGRESS AND POVERTY, an effort to explain why poverty continued to plague such an advanced nation, was

• Teddy Roosevelt

• Henry George

• Edward Bellamy

• Upton Sinclair

Which president first used the term, "Muckraker"?

• Franklin Roosevelt

• Ulysses S, Grant

• William McKinley

• Teddy Roosevelt

Who did progressives think was responsible for improving society?

• Private industry

• Government

• Families

• Captains of industry

A court order that prohibits certain activities.

• Strike

• Collective Bargining

• Injustice

• Injunction

The progressive era saw a rise in the popularity of this philosophy that favored public or government control of property and income.

• Muckraking

• Socialism

• Unionization

• Capitalism