Progressive Movement

Why are muckrakers important?

• They clean up litter in the streets

• They expose problems so that society can fix them.

• They are a mud processing plant

• They are corrupt journalists that help hide corruption

Political Machines are ​ (a)   because they only help the poor to exploit them and their ​ (b)  

• bad
• votes
• good
• jobs

The breaking up of Trusts happened because ______ exposed Standard Oil.

• Upton Sinclair

• Jacob Riis

• Ida Tarbell

• Booker T. Washington

Exposure of this industry would lead to cleanliness standards

• railroad

• oil

• textile

• meat packing

Match the following

• New Freedom

• major accomplishment for Roosevelt

• Federal Reserve Bank

• major accomplishment for Wilson

• square deal

• focused on regulating business and taxing the rich

• Pure Food and Drug Act

• focused on busting trusts and protecting the environment

Why were unions formed

• poor living conditions

• women's rights

• prohibition

• poor working conditions

Match the following

• Haymarket Riot

• Labor union that was very focused in their direction

• strikes

• very diverse labor union that focused on many things

• American Federation of Labor

• Most powerful tool of the unions

• Knights of Labor

• hurt the KOL because people assumed they were terrorist

• belief of the unions

• The bosses needed the workers more than the workers needed the bosses

the right to vote

• disenfranchisement

• suffrage

• political machine

• 19th amendment

One of the main topics from the Progressive Movement

• Segregation

• taxes

• oil

• potato famine

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Booker T. Washington

,

(b) W.E.B. DuBoise

• immediate equality

• education for only a few

• equality had to wait

• education for all African Americans