Gilded Age to Progressive Era: PEOPLE

Which president wanted to control businesses and conserve the environment?

• William McKinley

• Abraham Lincoln

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

In The Jungle, Upton Sinclair exposed

• Dangers faced by coal miners
• Corrupt business practices of the Standard Oil Company
• Unsanitary conditions in the meat-packing industry
• Illegal deals between special interests and the government

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 corruption in American society

• Newspaper columnists who reported in celebrities

Which of the following was a major goal of Jane Addams' settlement house movement in Chicago?

• The founding of women's colleges
• The introduction of prison reform
• The assimilation of immigrants
• The establishment of public libraries

Teddy Roosevelt is best known as a _____________________.

• trustbuster

• muckraker

• captain of industry

Match the following

• -founded Standard Oil

  -created a monopoly on oil

  -Richest man to ever live

• JD Rockefeller

• -established the banking industry

  - financier

  - buys out Carnegie in 1901

• Andrew Carnegie

• - railroad industry

  - made a fortune on shipping goods

  -promoted the use of railroads

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• -steel industry

  - wrote the "Gospel of Wealth"

  - used the Bessemer process

• JP Morgan

Select (click) the 2 places on the map people were immigrating to America from during the Gilded Age.

Who was the corrupt NYC political boss that shaped politics in NYC and the state of New York?

• William "Boss" Tweed

• William "the Crusher" Tweed

• William McKinley

• Andrew Carnegie

What U.S. president was elected largely through the massive funding by a small handful of Wealthy industrialists in the election of 1896?

• Howard Taft

• Theordore Roosevelt

• William McKinley

• William Jennings Bryant

What was the nickname of the Progressive Party that broke away from the Republicans in 1912?

• Wildcatter

• Bear

• Bull Headed

• Bull Moose