Industrialization
This transportation network connected regions and helped create a national market
Railroads
He exposed crowded tenement conditions
Jacob Riis
These laws targeted unsafe food and meatpacking.
Meat Inspection Act / Pure Food and Drug Act
This usually came after reformers exposed a problem to the public.
Public pressure
In a political cartoon, these help reveal the cartoonist's message
Symbols / labels / exaggeration
This production method made goods faster and often cheaper.
Mass production
He exposed unsafe meatpacking conditions.
Upton Sinclair
This type of government action targeted monopoly power
Antitrust enforcement
This often followed growing public pressure during the Progressive Era
Government response
This is the first thing you should identify in a political cartoon question
The issue being criticized
This process describes the rapid growth of cities during the late 1800s.
Urbanization
She investigated Standard Oil.
Ida Tarbell
These laws tried to keep young children out of factories.
Child-labor laws
This could make a reform less effective even after a law was passed.
Weak enforcement
This should support your interpretation of a political cartoon.
A specific visual detail
These were two common problems faced by factory workers.
Long hours and unsafe conditions
He photographed child laborers
Lewis Hine
These local reforms targeted unsafe and unsanitary housing.
inspections / housing codes
These were often used by newspapers to raise awareness and provoke an emotional response in readers.
Political cartoons
A strong written response should use at least this many specific examples.
Two
These powerful business combinations reduced competition.
Trusts / monopolies
These reforms targeted dangerous working conditions.
Factory-safety laws / inspections
This was one major change in government during the Progressive Era.
A larger role in regulating business and protecting the public
This is the big Progressive Era pattern: problem, exposure, public pressure, then ____.
Government response