Progressive Era and Teddy Roosevelt

What was the purpose of the Sherman Antitrust Act?

• To encourage monopolies and discourage fair competition.

• To regulate the stock market.

• To protect consumers from fraud and deception.

• To prevent monopolies and promote fair competition.

Which president was known for his efforts to break up monopolies and regulate big businesses?

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Woodrow Wilson

• Herbert Hoover

• Theodore Roosevelt

What were some of the Progressive Era reforms?

• Labor reforms, regulation of monopolies, and protection of consumers

• expansion of slavery, increased tariffs, and decreased government regulation

• prohibition of alcohol, immigration restrictions, and child labor laws

• abolition of slavery, increased government spending, and decreased taxes

Name one SOCIAL reform that was a part of the Progressive Era?

• Trust busting reform

• Civil rights movement

• Child labor reform

• Mandatory voting for all citizens

What was the main goal of trust-busting during the progressive era?

• To break up monopolies and promote competition.

• To promote economic inequality and concentration of wealth.

• To increase government regulation of businesses.

• To protect small businesses from competition.

Which of the following would be political reforms that Progressives would want to make?

• Increase the power of corporations
• Limit the power of the government
• Increase the power of the military
• Implement laws to protect workers, improve society, and regulate business

Which of the following would be social reforms that Progressives wanted to make? Choose 2.

• Children needed to have an education rather than work in a factory.

• The government wanted to tax people's income, so they proposed an income tax.

• Reformers sought to clean up unhealthy and dangerous working conditions.

• Women needed the right to vote and have a say in government.

Based on this cartoon, why would Teddy Roosevelt be known as a "trust buster"?​ ​ (a)  

• He wanted monopolies to control the country.
• He wanted to eliminate monopolies.
• He wanted to reform businesses.

What was President Roosevelt's domestic policy called?​

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• The Square Deal
• New Look
• Trust Busting

• Conservation Corps

Which of the following would President Roosevelt NOT AGREE with?

• Eliminating the power of big businesses to corrupt the political process

• Allowing big businesses greater access to natural resources

• Guaranteeing that big businesses to pay laborers fair wages for their work

• Eliminating the political power of trusts in industries