Chapter 29

Question 1

Wealth Against Commonwealth (book)

Answer 1

Written by Henry Demarest Lloyard against the Standard Oil Company

Question 2

Thorstein Veblen

Answer 2

Assailed the new rich with the book The Theory of the Leisure Class

Question 3

Jacob A. Riis

Answer 3

New York Sun reporter who wrote How the Other Half Lives (account of the poverty of New York Slums)

Question 4

Lincoln Steffens

Answer 4

Wrote series of articles titled “The Shame of Cities”, that unmasked the corrupt alliance between big business and municipal government

Question 5

Ida B. Tarbell

Answer 5

Published expose on Standard Oil Company

Question 6

David G. Phillips

Answer 6

Charged in Cosmopolitan that 75 of 90 senators did not represent the people at all, but the railroads and trusts instead

Question 7

Goals of progressives

Answer 7

1. Use state power to curb trusts
2. Stem socialist treat by generally improving the common person’s conditions of life and labor
3. Regain power that had slipped from the hands of the people
4. Gain referendum and recall for voters
5. Root out graft
6. Direct election of US senators
7. Women’s suffrage

Question 8

Robert M. La Follette

Answer 8

WI governor. Most militant progressive republican leader. Gave the people power and regulated public utilities

Question 9

Florence Kelly

Answer 9

Former Hull House resident. Illinois’ first chief factory inspector and one of the nation’s leading advocates for improved factory conditions. Took control of the National Consumers League.

Question 10

National Consumers League

Answer 10

Mobilized female consumers to pressure for laws safeguarding women and children in the workplace.