Progressive Reforms: Industrial Capitalism

Progressive Reforms: Industrial Capitalism

Multiple Choice

Reforms of the Progressive era were meant to....

• Improve society

• Help big business grow.

• Increase immigration

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Examples of what Progressive Reforms did: Select all

• Improved working conditions

• Improved city living

• Got rid of corrupt government

• Broke up monopolies.

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Identify 2 Presidents that were a part of the Progressive Era.

• George Washington

• Teddy Roosevelt

• Woodrow Wilson

• Andrew Jackson

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Select the problems of monopolies/trusts.

• Gets rid of competition

• Decreases immigration

• Unfair business practices

• Better prices for consumers.

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What was the goal of anti-trust legislation like the Sherman Anti-trust Act?

• Increase the number of monopolies.

• Break up monopolies

• Improve tenements

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Which U.S. President became most known as a ¨Trustbuster?¨

• Woodrow Wilson

• Howard Taft

• Teddy Roosevelt

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What was the goal of consumer protection reforms such as the Pure Food and Drug Act?

• To ensure products were safe.

• To help businesses make as much money as possible.

• To encourage monopolies

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How did business and industry view the wilderness of the West?

• It needed to be protected.

• It needed to be conserved.

• It was an endless supply of resources.

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What began happening to the forests and lands of the WEst before Roosevelt?

• Business was destroying the land to get resources.

• Nothing, it wasn´t being used.

• Businesses were fighting to protect the land from destruction.

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What was the goal of Rooseveltś conservation reforms?

• To protect the land and resources.

• To give land to monopolies.

• To give away free land to settlers.

Lesson Takeaways: Industrial Capitalism Reform

• Monopolies needed to be broken up with anti-trust legislation

• Consumers and Workers needed protection

• The land needed to be conserved (protected) from total destruction.

• Government involvement and new legislation (ACTS) helped solve some of these problems.