AP U.S. History / Unit 7: Period 7: 1890–1945
7.4 The Progressives
Notes
Progressives used government to fix industrial problems:
- Muckrakers (Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, Ida Tarbell).
- Theodore Roosevelt's Square Deal, trust-busting, conservation; the Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act (1906).
- 16th–19th Amendments: income tax, direct election of senators, Prohibition, women's suffrage.
Practice
The Jungle led to:
Upton Sinclair, 1906.
The Seventeenth Amendment:
1913.
Theodore Roosevelt's Square Deal focused on:
Three Cs.
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