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Progressive Era
Question | Answer |
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What was the time period for the Progressive Era? | 189ld lab0-1920 |
What was the goal of the Progressive Era? | To change the bad things in society |
What were the themes of the Progressive Era? | Democracy, Temperance, Suffrage, Workers' Rights, Conservation, Economic Progressivism, Racial Progressivism |
What was the purpose of the temperance movement? | To make drinking alcohol illegal. |
The movement to protect America's natural resources is called what? | Conservation |
In regard to democracy, what does recall mean? | The right of the people to remove a politician by a vote of the people. |
What is a referendum? | Letting the people vote on a proposed law. |
What are two good democratic things that came out of the Progressive Era? | The secret ballot and direct election of senators. |
What are two good things that came from economic progressivism? | Minimum wage and meat inspection |
Name one bad thing that came from economic progressivism: | Income tax |
Women's suffrage means what? | The right of women to vote. |
What good things came from workers' rights during the Progressive Era? | Safer work conditions, child labor laws, length of the work day. |
The NAACP was created during the Progressive Era. What do the letters stand for? | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
Jim Crow laws were bad for African Americans but the Progressives said they were okay because they were: | Separate but equal facilities |
Unfortunately, the Progressives believed in eugenics which believed in a white master race. How did American eugenics movement try to create a white master race? | By forcefully sterilizing the poor, epileptics, the insane, the mentally challenged and people of color against their will. |
Name two presidents during the Progressive Era. | Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson |
Woodrow Wilson signed a law prohibiting what? | Child labor laws |
Woodrow Wilson successfully led the US to victory in what war? | WW I |
Name one other good thing Wilson did? | 8 hour work day for railway workers and women's right to work in 1920 |
What did Wilson believe about the Constitution? | He believed it was a living thing and could be changed based on what was going on in society at the time. |
As governor of New Jersey, what did Wilson pass? | A forced sterilization law |
What did Wilson make a felony while he was President? | Inter-marriage between blacks and whites |
What did Wilson feel was the cause of "every evil in the country." | Giving blacks the right to vote |
What was the name of the racist movie Wilson showed at the White House? | Birth of a Nation |
What was the effect of the movie Birth of a Nation on the US? | It started the KKK up again and it came back bigger than ever before. |
Teddy Roosevelt became the youngest President at age 42 when this President was assassinated: | William McKinley. |
Name one national park Teddy Roosevelt established. | Crater Lake |
What was the name of the act/law that allowed Roosevelt and later other Presidents to name historic locations and structures as national monuments? | The Antiquities Act |
What do you call someone who believes in extending his/her nation’s rule over other countries or territories with military force? | Imperialist |
What kind of tax law did Roosevelt establish? | Inheritance/death tax |
What is it called when someone tries to make citizens hate corporations and wealthy people? | Class warfare |
Name one other bad thing Roosevelt did or believed in. | Eugenics |
Upton Sinclair wrote a book during the Progressive Era called the Jungle. It helped create regulations to do what? | To improve the way meat factories were run. |
How did the Teddy Bear get its name? | It got its name because Roosevelt refused to shoot a cub tied to a tree. |