💚 🔔 Thursday Bell Ringer

During the early 1900s, the term "muckrakers" was used to describe-

• pacifists who demonstrated against war

• Politicians who criticized Progressive Era presidents

• Writers who exposed the evil in American society

• Newspaper columnists who reported in celebrities

Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair, and Frank Norris all shared a belief that-

• The public was unlikely to respond to calls for reform
• The government should follow a laissez-faire policy
• Reform was needed to control abuses of business
• Monopolies were necessary for business to survive

The Progressive Movement supported the idea that the federal government should-

• Reduce the number of farms
• Build an overseas empire
• Regulate big business
• Reduce immigration

Civil service reform in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was a reaction to which of the following issues?

• the dwindling influence of political machines
• the emergence of single-issue third parties
• the corrupt and inefficient distribution of government jobs by political machines
• the ignorance of voters who elected well-meaning but incompetent public officials

During the Progressive Era, Jane Addams responded to urban conditions by working to establish-

• free public schools located in inner-city neighborhoods
• settlement houses that provided assistance to the poor
• newspapers that helped to inform Americans about slum conditions
• laws that restricted certain immigrant groups