Unit 3: Concept Checkpoint # 6 (Progressive Reforms)

What are the goals of the Progressive Era?

• To promote inequality and protect the interests of big business
• To protect social welfare, promote moral improvement, create economic reforms and foster efficiency.

• To ignore social welfare and working conditions and focus solely on political issues
• To maintain the status quo and prevent any social or political changes

What is a muckraker?

• Type of gardening tool used to remove weeds.

• Term used to describe someone who enjoys playing in the mud.

• Type of dessert made with chocolate and marshmallows.

• Journalist or writer who investigates and exposes corruption, scandal, or other unethical practices, typically in politics or business.

What does reform mean?

• Changes

• Problems

• Difficulties

• Annoyances

Match the following

• income tax

• 16th Amendement

• direct election of senators

• 18th Amendment

• bans sale & manufacturing of alcohol

• 17th Amendment

• women's right to vote

• 19th Amendment

Why were settlement houses created?

• To exploit immigrants and low-income communities for cheap labor.
• To provide social services like housing and support to immigrants and low-income communities.

• To promote segregation and discrimination against immigrants and low-income communities.
• To create a sense of community and belonging for immigrants and low-income communities.

What was the Meat Inspection Act?

• The Meat Inspection Act was a federal law that required inspection of meat products and set sanitary standards for meat processing plants.
• The Meat Inspection Act was a law that allowed meat processing plants to operate without any regulations.
• The Meat Inspection Act was a law that banned the consumption of meat products.
• The Meat Inspection Act was a state law that only applied to certain regions.

What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?

• Promotes monopolies.

• Regulates labor unions.

• Encourages price fixing.

• Prohibits trusts/monopolies and encourages competition.

What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?

• Meat must be inspected

• workers allowed to use moldy products if there were no rats

• Companies must label all products & cannot sell contaminated food

• industries do not have to listen to health laws

What was the outcome of the Progressive Era?

• Americans expect government to fix problems of society

• Increase in income inequality
• Expansion of monopolies
• Decrease in government regulation