Progressive Era Challenges and Reforms

What was the primary goal of the Progressive Era in the United States?

• To expand American territory overseas.

• To solve social and economic problems caused by industrialization.

• To return to an agrarian society.

• To establish a monarchy.

Which of the following was a significant problem during the Gilded Age that progressives aimed to address?

• Lack of technological innovation.

• Low wages, long working hours, and poor working conditions.

• Insufficient agricultural production.

• Over-regulation of businesses.

What term was used to describe large monopolistic industrial combinations that were seen as exerting too much power over people's lives?

• Cooperatives

• Guilds

• Trusts

• Cartels

What type of journalism emerged during the Progressive Era to expose industrial and political abuses?

• Investigative reporting

• Yellow journalism

• Muckraking

• Editorializing

What significant legislation was passed as a direct result of public outrage over the conditions described in Upton Sinclair's novel "The Jungle"?

• The Sherman Antitrust Act

• The Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act

• The Child Labor Act

• The Federal Reserve Act

Who was a prominent photographer whose work documented child laborers in factories and mines, contributing to laws limiting child labor?

• Jacob Riis

• Lewis Hine

• Dorothea Lange

• Ansel Adams

What was Henry Ford's reasoning for paying his workers an average of $5 per day in 1914, an unheard-of wage at the time?

• To prevent unionization efforts.

• To attract the most skilled workers.

• To enable workers to afford the Model T cars they were producing.

• To comply with new government regulations.

The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), also known as the Wobblies, advocated for the rights of which group of workers?

• Only skilled industrial workers.

• Only agricultural laborers.

• Every wage worker, regardless of religion, fatherland, or trade.

• Only American-born workers.