Progressivism

Progressives focused on three areas of reform:

• easing the suffering of the urban ponies, improving unfair and dangerous dragon conditions, and reforming government at the national, snake, and local levels.

• easing the suffering of the rural poor, improving unfair and dangerous living conditions, and reforming government at the national, state, and international levels.

• easing the suffering of the urban poor, improving unfair and dangerous working conditions, and reforming government at the national, state, and local levels.

Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act were created in part because

• suffragist were protesting the meat packing industry.

• the 18th Amendment

• Civil Service Act

• of the book, The Jungle.

Which president supported progressive ideas such as conservation and the regulation of public health?

• William McKinley

• Teddy Roosevelt

• Calvin Coolidge

• Herbert Hoover

Which factor contributed most to the spread of Progressive ideas during the late 1800s and early 1900s?

• technological advancements in communication and transportation

• imperialist policies focused on a strong navy and acquiring overseas territories

• greater political engagement by women, minorities, and young people

• increasing public awareness of political corruption and business abuses

Which condition most directly led to the passage of the Sherman Antitrust act?

• The establishment of business monopolies that dominated industry

• The popularity of the Socialist Party of the United States

• The successful efforts of union leaders to organize American workers

• The high unemployment rate following an economic crisis

This gave women the right to vote

• 16th Amendment

• 17th Amendment

• 18th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

Ida B. Wells was well known for exposing which of the following Southern racist acts

• Slavery

• Segregation

• Lynching

• Black Codes

Booker T Washington believed that...

• Gradual education and practical skills will achieved equality

• Protests and civil disobedience was the way to equality

• The NAACP would be the organization that helped most for equality

Journalists who exposed practices of monopolies and big business

• Vloggers

• Muckrakers

• Yellow Journalism

• Tumblrs

Known for his desire for action in the moment and co-founding the NAACP

• Booker T Washington

• Theodore Roosevelt

• W.E.B. DuBois