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social studies
review for quiz on progressive era
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| spoils system | political supporters were rewarded with jobs and favors |
| Pendleton Act | established the Civil Service Commission to give examinations for federal jobs. Job seekers had to demonstrate their skills in these skills in these tests. Controlled hiring of many federal workers |
| muckraker | investigative reporters who alerted about problems. exposed the "muck, "dirt' and corruption underlying society. |
| 17th amendment | set forth the direct election of senators. Ratified in 1913, gave people a voice in choosing their representatives. |
| suffragist | fought for women's suffrage or women's right to vote, formed organizations to promote their cause. |
| 19th amendment | went into effect in 1920 came in time for women to vote in the presidential election, women's suffrage amendment. |
| prohibition | laws that would ban making and selling alcohol |
| The Women's Christian Temperance Union | women educated the public about alcohol abuse. Goals was to prohibition supported other causes including prison reform, women suffrage, improved working conditions and world peace. fight against alcohol |
| trustbuster | obtained indictments, or legal charges against trusts in the beef, oil, and tobacco industries. Roosevelt was a trustbuster. Grouped into good and bad ones. |
| primary | an election which a political party shoes its candidates. |
| The Seneca Falls Convention, 1848 | -Elizabeth Cady Stanto and Lucretia Mott -Start of the Women's Rights Movement -passed a resolution paraphrasing the Declaration of Independence, stating that women were equal to men and deserve the right to vote |
| The Suffrage movement | -Susan B. Anthony -gave women the right to vote -traveled around the country giving lectures and attending conventions |
| How come the role of women started to change? | -new inventions such as the sewing machine, typewriters, telephones -more opportunities for college -industrialization -labor saving devices gave women more leisure time because of less housework |
| 19th amendment | passed in 1920, prohibiting states from denying any citizen the right to vote based on gender |
| The Progressives | groups of people who wanted to correct the political and economic abuses. |
| Political and economic abuses were caused by... | rapid growth of immigration, industrialization, urbanization |
| Who were the Progressive Presidents? | -TR -Woodrow Wilson |
| 16th amendment | Granted Congress the power to tax |
| Jacob Riis | -wrote the book How the Other Half Lives -exposed living conditions of urban poor, focused on tenements -NYC passed building codes to promote safety and heath |
| Ida Tarbell | -worked for McClure's magazine, wrote "History of Standard Oll Company" -exposed the ruthless tactics of oil trusts -increased public pressure for more government control over big business, declared monopolies and broke them up |
| Upton Sinclair | -wrote a novel The Jungle -investigated the dangerous working conditions of the meatpacking industry -Congress passed the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906 |
| Thomas Nast | -political cartoonist for Harper's Weekly -exposed Boss Tweed Ring's operations and political corruption by NYC's political machine Tammany Hall -Boss Tweed was convicted of embezzlement and died in prison |
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