Progressive Era

  Muckrakers contributed to the rise of Progressivism in the early years of the 20th century by:

• Challenging big government and urging a return to past conditions

• Exposing widespread corruption in business and government

• Writing favorable biographies of business owners

• Aligning themselves witnh the women's rights movement

Which long-awaited goal of the women’s rights movement was achieved during the Progressive Era?   

• Right to suffrage (vote)

• Right to own property

• equal pay for equal work

• Equal access to education

What was the book that Upton Sinclair wrote that exposed the meat packing industry?

• Sinclair vs. Chicago Meats

• The Reaper

• The Jungle

• The Muckraker

How did reformers propose that Congress respond to business that used monopolistic business practices?

• by regulating child labour

• by organizing labor unions

• by passing antitrust legislation

• by adopting free market policies

The Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act were attempts by Congress to...

• regulate activities of big business

• protect consumers against unsafe products

• impose government regulation on agricultural production

• bring transportation activities under government ownership

 From 1865 to 1900, how did the growth of industry affect American society?

• population centers shifted from the Northeast to the South

• the U.S. experience the dissapearance of factories and cities

• Immigrants were restricted from coming to America

• The percentage of Americans living in urban areas increased

 Jim Crow laws of the post-Civil War Era were attempts by...

• the Federal Government to improve the states of African Americans and Native Americans

• State and local governments to restrict the freedoms of African Americans

• Radical Republicans in Congress to carry out Reconstruction plans

• States to ban organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan

The Jim Crow laws, created by the Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) provided for...

• free land for former slaves

• separate public facilities based on race

• racial integration of public schools

• voting rights for African American males

Muckrakers, Jacob Riis, in How the Other Half Lives, and Lincoln Steffens, in The Shame of the Cities, contributed to reform movements in the United States by

• Opposing westward expansion

• Criticizing racial injustice

• exposing poverty and corruption in government

• supporting organized labor

 Why did we see a rise in the creation of labor unions during the Industrial Revolution?

• organized the industrial sector into a single voting bloc

• educated workers to help develop new technology

• they advocated for the rights of workers in a market economy

• increased profits for the owners of industry