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Progressive era
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Which act prevented any buisness structures that restrained trade | Sherman Anti-trust act |
| What made the middle class angry during the progressive era? | Social problems |
| Exposed the social, political, and economical shortfalls of industrialization | Muckrakers |
| Whats was one political reform that took place to bring democracy back to the U.S during this period? | Direct primary: voters selected a party's canidate for public office |
| This president was known as the 'trust buster' | Theodore Roosevelt |
| The right for women to vote and run for office | Women suffrage |
| This man believed that education was fundamental to social progress | John Dewey |
| Limited working hours and minimum wages | Muller v. Oregon |
| Which act expanded Sherman by outlawing price fixing | Clayton Anti-trust Act |
| This act outlawed food and drugs containing harmful ingrediants | Pure food & drug act |
| Required federal government inspection of meat shipped across state lines | Meat inspection act |
| Which four amendments added to the U.S. Constitution during the progressive era? | 16th,17th,18th and 19th amendments |
| This acct forbided "interstate" transportation of products made in factories with workers under 14 | The Keating-Owens act |
| What is prohibition ? | Not allowing |
| Installed public lighting in hallways and provided one toilet per two families | The Tenement Act |
| What was one goal of the progressive movement? | To protect social welfare |
| The muckraker that exposed slums through magazines and photographs | Jacob Rills |
| This political reform allowed citizens to vote on a proposed or existing law | Referendum |
| This amendment allowed voting for women | 19th Amendment |
| Filed 44 antitrusts suits to split up monopolies | Roosevelt |
| Targeted bad trusts that sold inferior products , competed unfairly or corrupted public officials | Trust Busting campaign |
| The root of all the problems in society | Alcohol |
| Minimum standards for housing codes | Social & Moral Reforms |
| This movement caused many states started requiring children to attend school | Movement for Education |
| This political reform allowed voters to remove an elected official from office | Recall |