Progressive Era People & Policies

The term muckraker was used in the early 1900s to describe writers who

• supported limits on government regulation
• wanted the United States to ban all immigration
• exposed abuses in American society
• promoted racial integration efforts

• Overcrowding
• High crime rate
• Poor sanitation

In the early 1900s, these problems were most directly a result of

• muckrakers’ influence
• conservation programs
• westward migration
• rapid urbanization

Which book is associated with this photo?

• The Octopus by Frank Norris
• The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
• The Shame of the Cities by Lincoln Steffens 

Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois agreed that African Americans should

• use education to gain opportunities
• support a “Back to Africa” movement
• take part in boycotts to end segregation
• adopt a gradual approach to gain the right to vote

This time period focused on social and political reforms in the United States in the early 1900s:

• Civil War Era

• Industrialization Era

• Progressive Era

• Reconstruction Era

What is the economic philosophy that opposes government intervention?

• Laissez-faire

• Progressive

• Muckraker

• Recall