Progressive Era STAAR Review

Journalists who exposed the corrupt side of business and public life in the early 1900s.

• Senators
• Muckrakers
• Abolitionists
• None of the above

Wrote "The Jungle", that portrays the dangerous and unhealthy conditions prevalent in the meat packing industry at that time.

• Ida B. Wells
• Ida Tarbell
• Jacob Riis
• Upton Sinclair

Teddy Roosevelt's progressive plan; involved trust-busting and conservation projects.

• New Freedom
• New Deal
• Square Deal
• None of the above

Muckraker that wrote "History of the Standard Oil Company" to show how Rockefeller's power was based on unfair business practices

• Ida Tarbell
• Ida B. Wells
• Jacob Riis
• None of the above

What anti monopoly law made all"combinations, contracts, and conspiracies" that restrained free trade illegal (1890)?

• Interstate Commerce Act
• Sherman Antitrust Act
• Clayton Antitrust Act
• Keller-Cefauver Act

Which Progressive President used Big Stick Diplomacy and was known as a Trust buster?

• Teddy Roosevelt
• Taft
• Woodrow Wilson
• Luke Skywalker

 The actions of muckrakers in the late 19th century and early 20th century resulted in

• Supreme Court decisions that expanded the right to vote
• government regulation of unfair business practices
• increases in the power of monopolies
• reduction of the president’s power to manage the economy

Writers that dig up the bad things going on in society

• Suffragists
• Muckrakers
• Students
• Chaffinators

Who was the photographer who revealed to the world how the lower class lived?

• Alexander Bell
• Jacob Riis
• Upton Sinclair
• Theodore Roosevelt

Economic Policies Under President T. Roosevelt:
Step 1:Enforce federal laws
Step 2:Target monopolies

Which phrase describes the MAIN objective reflected by these steps?

• assisting organized labor groups
• improving consumer protections
• making markets more competitive
• making businesses more responsible