APUSH Chapter 18

The Triangle Shirtwaist fire:

brought in its wake much-needed safety legislation

Working women experienced new freedoms in the Progressive era because:

young immigrant factory workers gained independence from the traditional control of their fathers and employment opened up to married white women

Which of the following contradictions plagued Progressive reformers' ideas on the political process?

Progressive reformers worked both to expand the electorate and to shrink its size through other measures

Why did business support the Pure Food and Drug Act?

They understood that greater public confidence in the quality of the products helped their sales

Newspaper and magazine writers who exposed the ills of industrial and urban life, fueling the Progressive movement, were known as:

muckrackers

To create national parks like Yellowstone Yosemite, and Glacier, the federal government:

removed Indians who hunted and fished on these lands

Feminism:

sought to attack the traditional roles of sexual behavior for women

Which of the following statements about urban Progressives is NOT true?

they worked with political machines (worked to reform structure of gov, sought to est. public control of gas and waterworks, and raised taxes to inc spending on schools and parks)

The Sixteenth Amendment:

authorized Congress to implement a graduated income tax

Asian and Mexican immigrants in the early twentieth century:

clustered in the West as agricultural workers