Progressive Era EOC Review

Which reason contributed to the trend shown in this table?

• The number of factories using assembly lines decreased

• A progressive movement worked to stop the use of child labor

• A political movement worked to lower taxes for businesses

• The number of people joining labor unions decreased

When Jacob Riis published How the Other Half Lives in 1890, the U.S. Census Bureau ranked New York as the most densely populated city in the United States. . . . Disease, sanitation, garbage and hygiene issues were constant concerns in crowded impoverished . . . districts, where vital statistics were alarming. Jacob Riis wrote frequently to urge measures to protect public health and to alert wealthy residents of the city to slum conditions that put everyone at risk.

Which issue was discussed in the writings of Jacob Riis?

• Discrimination against African Americans in U.S. cities

• Harsh conditions of tenement housing in U.S. cities

• Growing conflict between rural regions and U.S. cities

• Increasing efforts to reduce Chinese immigration to U.S. cities

There was never the least attention paid to what was cut up for sausage; there would come all the way back from Europe old sausage that had been rejected, and that was mouldy and white—it would be dosed with borax and glycerine, and dumped into the hoppers, and made over again for home consumption. —Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, 1906

What was the immediate response to the practices mentioned in this excerpt?

• Monopolies formed to control competition in the meat-processing industry.

• Meat packers developed refrigerated railroad cars to ship meat nationwide.

• Congress passed legislation to protect consumer health and safety

• Farmers demanded government regulation of livestock sales and distribution.

The information below identifies examples of the work of the muckrakers.

• - Upton Sinclair exposed unhealthy practices of Chicago's meat-packing plants

• - Ida Tarbell revealed the dishonest business tactics of Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company

• - Jacob Riis wrote "How the Other Half Lives", showing the conditions of the residents of New York City tenements.

What was the impact of these muckraking activities during the early 1900s?

• Society changed in response to their promotion of Social Darwinism

• Voters agreed to let the owners of Big Business create more profitable monopolies

• Reports of these works in publications abroad let to a sudden decrease of immigration

• Public reaction to their books led to new laws addressing the abuses of industrialization

The information below identifies some of the key reforms of the Progressive Era. Which characteristic was shared by all five reforms?

• - initiative

• - referendum

• - recall

• - direct primary

• - 17th Amendment

• they were reforms of state government

• they gave citizens a greater voice in government

• they were directly aimed at reducing corruption in state government

• they successfully brought economic relief to the urban working classes

This U.S. president made significant contributions to breaking up big business (trustbusting) during the Progressive Era:

• William McKinley

• Howard Taft

• Teddy Roosevelt

• Woodrow Wilson

People who were trying to get the 19th Amendment passed were supporting what?

• Right to vote for 18 year olds

• Right to vote for women

• Right to vote for African Americans

• Right to vote for those in prison

What does a referendum give voters the right to do?

• select a candidate to run in the general election

• remove elected officials from public office

• to propose a law by getting signatures on a petition

• to approve or reject a law

The common purpose of the legislative acts were to

• promote the general welfare of the American public

• improve conditions for recent immigrants to US

• advance the growth of big business

• protect the nations natural resources

The cartoon illustrates President Theodore Roosevelt’s attempt to

• ignore antitrust laws

• conserve natural resources

• limit the power of monopolies

• eliminate foreign ownership of US corporations