Progressvism

What does "Gilded" mean when we talk about the Gilded Age?

• Nice on the outside, ugly on the inside

• Ugly on the outside, nice on the inside

Overcrowding and pollution were caused primarily by what?

• Urbanization

• Industrialization

• Nativism

• Assimilation

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Investigative Reporters that exposed societal problems were known as

• Monopolists

• Muckrakers

• Journalists

President Theodore Roosevelt's nickname was

• Trustbuster

• Muckraker

• The Jungle

Reform means

• to make worse

• to make better

Progressivism was a time period...

• where reformers tried to fix social, political, and economic problems caused by urbanization and industrialization

• rapid urbanization and industrialization that brought nothing but good things to the US

• where railroads were built in every state across America

Political machines like Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall were corrupt.

• True

• False

The 19th amendment granted African American Men the right to vote.

• True

• False

Suffrage means

• the right to free speech

• the right to vote

• the right to bear arms

Monopolies were powerful because they

• controlled the entire industry and could control prices

• controlled the government and the elections

• had the biggest muscles