Progressive Era: Social Activism and Political Reform
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What was the main focus of the Progressive Era in the United States?

  • Encouraging political corruption and monopoly
  • Promoting industrialization and urbanization
  • Defeating corruption, monopoly, waste, and inefficiency (correct)
  • Advancing concentration of industrial ownership in monopolies

    • Who were the investigative journalists known as 'muckrakers'?

  • Corrupt political machines
  • Journalists probing the dark corners of American life (correct)
  • Middle-class social reformers
  • Advocates of progressivism

    • What did progressivism seek to address?

  • Encouragement of poverty and slums
  • Advancement of undemocratic political machines
  • Exploitation of labor and political corruption (correct)
  • Spread of industrial ownership in monopolies

    • Who were the main advocates of progressivism?

    <p>Middle-class social reformers</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How did progressives work to regulate business monopolies?

    <p>Through trustbusting and antitrust laws</p> Signup and view all the answers

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