Progressivism

Question 1

What was the importance of Collier’s and McClure’s magazines? What were their magazines like in general?

Answer 1

• Two competing magazine companies
• Long articles with research and accuracy
• Targeted middle class
• Published many muckrakers’ works

Question 2

What are muckrakers?

Answer 2

• Reformist journalists who exposed corruption

Question 3

Why did Roosevelt stop supporting muckrakers?

Answer 3

• Muckrakers were being too negative
• Fear of the loss of faith in the political system

Question 4

Who was Charles Francis Adams Jr? What was his work?

Answer 4

• Exposed corruption among railroad barons
• Pushed for state regulation

Question 5

Who was Ida Tarbell? What was her work?

Answer 5

• “The History of the Standard Oil Company”
• In McClure’s magazines
• Exposed how Standard Oil forced railroads to give rebates to undersell competition

Question 6

What is a rebate?

Answer 6

Giving partial funds back

Question 7

Who was Lincoln Steffens? What was his work?

Answer 7

• “The Shame of the Cities”
• Exposed political machines
• Exposed politicians involved in corruption or bribery
• Exposed “boodlers” and “boss rule”

Question 8

Who was Jacob Riis? What was his work?

Answer 8

• “How the Other Half Lives”
• Photojournalistic work
• Exposed NYC “Dumbell tenements”
• Led to Tenement Act of 1901
• People learned what poverty truly was

Question 9

Who was Upton Sinclair? What was his work?

Answer 9

• “The Jungle”
• Exposed meatpacking industry in Chicago
• Public was horrified

Question 10

What was the Tenement Act of 1901?

Answer 10

• Improving sanitation and ventilation

Question 11

What acts were passed by Roosevelt because of “The Jungle”?

Answer 11

• Meat Inspection
• Pure Food and Drug
• FDA

Question 12

What was the meat inspection act?

Answer 12

• Mandated leaner conditions for meat packing plants

Question 13

What was the pure food and drug act?

Answer 13

• Prohibited interstate trade of misbranded food
• Aimed to stop “quack medicines” that had no scientifically backed up advertised claims