Origins of Progressivism

1906- Wrote The Jungle which exposed the conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry. (Helped pass the Pure Food and Drug Act) 

• Upton Sinclair 
• Lincoln Steffens 
• Jacob Riis 
• Frank Norris 

Journalists who exposed practices of monopolies and big business

• Gump Mushers
• Muckrakers
• Scalawags
• Dirt Diggers

Banning the sale of alcohol was the chief goal of 

• National Women's Suffrage Association
• Women’s Christian Temperance Union
• Bull Moose Party
• Good Government League

Banning the sale of alcohol was the chief goal of 

• National Women's Suffrage Association
• Women’s Christian Temperance Union
• Bull Moose Party
• Good Government League

Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act were created in part because

• of the book, The Jungle.

• suffragist were protesting the meat packing industry.

• the 18th Amendment

• Civil Service Act.

Main goal of most muckraking journalists?

• Gain fame through articles of high popular interest

• Expose social and economic problems in need of political attention

• Increase public awareness of America's great potential

• End corrupt relationships between politicians and big business

Henry Ford’s main contribution to the US industry was the idea of the assembly line and __________.

• automobile
• mass production
• sports car
• transportation

The temperance movement warned people of the ____.

• dangers of alcohol
• evils of slavery
• weakness of reform
• need for education

How the Other Half Lives exposed the plight of the urban working class. Who is responsible for this work?

• Upton Sinclair

• Ida Tarbell

• Jacob Riis

• Frank Norris

Who wrote the expose piece of literature that revealed the extensive corrupt monopolistic business practices of Standard Oil?

• Ida Tarbell
• Lewis Hines 
• Jacob Riis
• Upton Sinclair