WHAT IS PROGRESSIVISM?
This reform movement tried to solve problems caused by industrialization, poverty, powerful businesses, and growing cities.
Progressivism
This was the name given to journalists and writers who exposed corruption and social problems.
Muckrakers
This author wrote The Jungle.
Upton Sinclair
Roosevelt's four major Progressive areas were labor, trusts, consumers, and this.
Conservation
Large corporate businesses working together to control a market and limit competition were called these
Trusts
This term means protecting and managing natural resources.
Conservation
Progressives wanted government to control the power of these large economic organizations.
Businesses / corporations
This muckraker used photography to expose terrible living conditions in New York City slums.
Jacob Riis
The Jungle exposed shocking conditions in this Chicago industry.Meatpacking
Meatpacking
In this 1902 conflict, workers demanded better pay and shorter working hours.
Coal Strike of 1902
Government action against harmful monopolies is known by this nickname.
Trust busting
Roosevelt believed this level of government should help protect America's natural resources.
Federal government
Protecting workers and addressing this problem involving young workers was one of the six goals of Progressivism.
Child labor
This writer exposed corrupt business practices involving Standard Oil.
Ida Tarbell
This 1906 law regulated meat crossing state lines.
Meat Inspection Act
Workers eventually received these two major improvements following the Coal Strike.
A 10% raise and a 9-hour workday
Roosevelt believed the government should regulate these types of trusts.
Harmful or “bad” trusts
This 1902 law funded dams and irrigation projects in the dry West.
Newlands Act
Women's rights, racial relations, and improving urban poverty were all examples of these.
Goals of Progressivism
This author's work The Theory of the Leisure Class criticized wealthy Americans and conspicuous consumption.
Thorstein Veblen
This 1906 law fought contaminated or mislabeled food and medicine.
Pure Food and Drug Act
This Roosevelt idea said government should promote fairness instead of simply protecting powerful businesses.
Square Deal
Roosevelt's government sued this railroad monopoly.
Northern Securities Company
Roosevelt set aside approximately this many acres as forests, mineral reserves, and power sites.
200 million acres
Name three major problems Progressives wanted to address.
powerful businesses, dangerous working conditions, poverty, growing cities, child labor, social welfare, etc.
Explain the chain reaction that made muckrakers important to Progressive reform.
They exposed problems → the public became aware → pressure for reform increased.
The Jungle helped demonstrate this Progressive idea about the government's responsibility toward people buying products.
Consumers deserved products that were safe and honestly labeled.
Why was Roosevelt's intervention in the Coal Strike significant?
He did not automatically side with business and instead used government to promote greater fairness.
What happened to Northern Securities after Roosevelt's government challenged it? Include the year.
The Supreme Court dissolved it in 1904.
Give two examples of Roosevelt's conservation policies studied in this unit.
Newlands Act + setting aside about 200 million acres