The Progressive Era

Why did people want to reform child labor?

• Children often worked long hours in dangerous factory conditions for very little money.
• Children needed to stay at home and help take care of the household.
• Children were getting sick at work and spreading it in the community.
• People wanted their children to work in factories

28th President of the United States and creator of the Department of Labor

• William Taft

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Franklin D Roosevelt

• Woodrow Wilson

He was handpicked as Roosevelt's successor.

• Taft

• Wilson

 What was a Muckraker?

• A politician who was corrupt.
• A factory owner who employed child labor.
• An investigative journalist who exposed corruption in society.
• An immigrant who lived in a tenement building.

26th President of the United States, served for two terms and eventually ran for a third term under the Bull Moose Party.

• Franklin Roosevelt

• Woodrow Wilson

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Grover Cleveland

27th President of the United States but was unable to get laws passed like his predecessor.

• William McKinley

• William Taft

• William Shatner

• William Penn

Which of the following was also a notable accomplishment of the Progressive Era?

• Truancy laws
• Civil rights
• The New Deal
• Election reform

For how many years did Wilson serve as president

• four

• six

• eight

• twelve

Which two presidents did Wilson beat in the election of 1912?

• Taft and Roosevelt

• Roosevelt and McKinley

• McKinley and Taft

This American gangster hated his nickname "scarface."

• Al Capone

• Al Pacino

• Vito Corleone

• Bugsy Siegel