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In The Jungle, the journalist Upton Sinclair, attempted to wake the nation up to the need for government to 

President Theodore Roosevelt would MOST likely use the term “muckraker” to apply to which of the following? 

Esssay Question During the Progressive Era, Americans fiercely debated a fundamental question: Who should control the growing power of the nation’s economy and government? Write an essay analyzing how muckraking journalists, federal political goals, and civil reforms interconnected to answer this question. Specifically, evaluate how investigative exposures—such as Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle and Ida Tarbell’s corporate critiques of Standard Oil—shifted public opinion and directly fueled Theodore Roosevelt’s “Trust-Busting” and Square Deal policies. Please include evidence of federal laws that directly resulted from these Progressive Era demands. (Rubric attached)

A steel company that owns the coal mines, limestone quarries, and iron ore fields it depends on to manufacture steel represents a 

Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, identified as a Progressive and advocated for “world peace” by encouraging 

“When a midnight inspection in Mulberry Street unearths a hundred and fifty ‘lodgers’ sleeping on filthy floors in two buildings… In a room not thirteen feet either way, slept twelve men and women, two or three in bunk, the rest on the floor; a single room, but five families split it up into as many separate households… The atmosphere was simply stifling… the water does not rise in summer to the second story, and the stench from the sewers and the households is something terrible.”  – Jacob Riis How the Other Half Lives  The above quotation is most likely talking about which urban problem? 

Indicate three distinct reasons why the PROTEINS in meat have high nutritional value.  Question as promised during lecture : -)   

Which of the following most directly contributed to the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882 and increased restrictions in the Scott Act of 1888? 

One of the weaknesses of the Progressives was their record on 

What as a notable outcome of the 1902 Anthracite Coal Strike that showed Progressive and Square Deal reform efforts?