8th Grade Unit 2 (Progressive Era)

Question 1

progressivism

Answer 1

working to improve society by eliminating the causes of disease, poverty, and crime

Question 2

who were the progressives?

Answer 2

urban middle-class: managers and professionals; women

Question 3

why? address the problems arising from…

Answer 3

industrialization (big business, labor strife)
urbanization (slums, political machines, corruption)
immigration (ethnic diversity)
inequality & social injustice (women & racism)

Question 4

what are the goals of the progressives?

Answer 4

democracy (government accountable to the people)
regulation of corporations & monopolies
social justice (workers, poor, minorities)
environmental protection

Question 5

how?

Answer 5

government (laws, regulations, programs)

efficiency - value experts, use of scientific study to determine the best solution

Question 6

origins of progression

Answer 6

“muckrakers” digging for truth about things (like on Rockefeller, immigration conditions, Miki Mistrati nowadays)
Jacob Riis - How the Other Half Lives (1890)
Ida Tarbell - The History of the Standard Oil Co. (1902)
Lincoln Steffens - The Shame of the Cities (1904)

Question 7

muckrakers

Answer 7

exposed the “muck” or filth to expose the ugly parts of American society
effects - Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle led to the passing of the Pure Food and Drug Act (FDA) and the Meat Inspection Act. This also created minimum standards for manufacture and sale of food items.
Bureau of Corporations formed to investigate monopolies.

Question 8

the progressive problems were…

Answer 8

racism
women's rights
conservation (environmental)
working conditions 
monopolies
political corruption
urban slums
education