Progressive Era Review

A goal of the Progressives during the Progressive Era was to.

• end child labor

• end political corruption

• expand direct democracy

• all of the above

What role did Teddy Roosevelt play in conservation?

• He influenced the creation of the National Parks System

• He called on Americans to stop consuming oil

• He signed a law banning the use of fossil fuels.

• He advocated for conservative values.

The Gilded Age (1880s-1900s) featured the growing power of big business and their monopolization of industries. Such economic power prevented competition and manipulated consumer prices. What did Congress do as a response?

• Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act

• Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Congress passed laws protecting monopolies

• Congress passed the Clayton Antitrust Act

This muckraker revealed the unsanitary conditions of the streets of New York City caused by widespread homelessness and poverty of newcomers.

• Upton Sinclair

• Ida Tarbell

• Thomas Nast

• Jacob Riis

The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair, led President Roosevelt to respond by

• passing the 16th Amendment

• better school nutrition programs

• government regulation of the food industry

• reforms in working conditions

A major purpose of the Progressive Movement (1900 to 1917) was to –

• correct the economic and social abuses of industrial society.

• encourage immigration from southern and eastern Europe.

• support government control of factory production.

• stimulate the industrial economy.

Which of the following occurred as a result of the Sherman Antitrust Act?

• Workers secured a share of company profits

• The influence of labor unions on factory owners was reduced

• The federal government could dissolve business monopolies

• Businesses were required to pay fees to open overseas locations

“Today three-fourths of the people in New York City live in tenements, in the 19th century drift of the population to the cities is sending ever-increasing multitudes to crowd them.  The fifteen thousand tenant houses that were the despair of the sanitarium in the past generation have swelled into thirty seven thousand, and more than twelve hundred thousand persons call them home.”

-Jacob Riis How the Other Half Lives, 1890

The main idea of this excerpt from Jacob Riis’ book is that-

• Cities are unable to handle the flow of new arrivals

• The treatment of African Americans remains almost as bad as under slavery

• Farmers can find a higher living standard if they leave the farm and move to the city

• Certain laws are needed to protect consumers from deceptive practices

Reforming means

• Changing something for the better

• Controlling something

• Buying something

• Approving Something

What do reforms like initiatives, referendums, and recalls attempt to do?

• give the people more power over the government

• limit citizenship rights like voting

• provide low interest loans to farmers

• establish a system of checks and balances