Question

What were some reforms during the Progressive Era and what were their goals?

Answer 1

They were aimed at regulating big business

Explanation:

Theodore Roosevelt passed a series of laws to regulate American society.

The Pure Food and Drug Act (it led to the creation of the Food and Drug Administration) in 1906 is one of the most symbolic ones. It respoded to the shock triggered by the novel "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair published in 1905.

No laws was necessary to break up the monopolies since the Sherman Act had been passed in 1890 under Harrison presidency.