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What was the main focus of the Progressive Era in the United States?
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'?
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?
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?
Who were the main advocates of progressivism?
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How did progressives work to regulate business monopolies?
How did progressives work to regulate business monopolies?
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