The Progressive Era - Crash Course

The Progressive Era also overlapped which historical US period?

• Revolutionary Period

• Gilded Age

• Baby Boom

• Civil War 

Progressives were most concerned with the __ of modern industrial society.

• Military problems

• Social problems

• Infrastructure problems

Many of the social problems of the time were brought about by business owners trying to what?

• Expand to other industries

• Keep costs down (and therefore get profits up)

• Create new inventions that help mankind

What was the form of journalism where immoral and unfair business practices were exposed called?

• Tabloids

• Yellow Journalism

• Muckracking

What were readers of The Jungle more appalled with than the treatment of workers in meat-packing plants?

• Muckraking reporters

• Condition of the meat

• How much money owners were making

What technological development helped muckrakers best expose the working conditions of child laborers?

• Telephone

• Photography

• Typewriters

• Internet

What did Henry Ford do for his workers that was "unheard of at the time"?

• Fired workers who showed up late

• Paid his workers a high hourly wage

• Offered his workers insurance

What is one result of Ford's paying of higher wages to his workers?

• Ford sold more cars and car prices came down

• Ford went out of business and died in poverty

• Ford sold fewer cars and car prices went up

Progressive reformers tended to have more success affecting legislation at which level?

• National

• Federal

• State and local

What did the 17th Amendment do?

• Senators were elected by the people of their state (instead of chosen by the state legislature)

• Allowed governors to appoint anyone they wanted as the state's senators

• Outlawed alcohol