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Chapter 17 test
U.S. History Test.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who was involved in the Social Welfare Reform Movement and why? | The Young Men's Christian Association, Florence Kelly. YMCA aimed for implemtation of libraries, sport areas, and other public areas. Florence improved lives of women and children. |
| Who was involved in the Moral Welfare Reform Movement and why? | Women Christian Temperance Union, Anti-Saloon League, Frances Willard. WCTU provided public roles for women, ASL and WCTU supported prohibition. (beer) |
| Who was involved in the Economic Welfare Reform Movement and why? | Muckrakers They exposed corruption, like government and business corruption, to the public. |
| Who was involved in the Industrial Effciency Movement and why? | Louis D. Branders, Frederick Winslow Taylor |
| Who was involved in Movement to Protect Workers and why? | Muller, Oregon Bunting, Oregon Both paid benefits in death, raised workers compensation, and lowered work hours for men and women. |
| Who was involved in the Local Government Reform Movement and why? | Texas Legislature They adopted the commission idea in government. |
| Who was involved in the State Reform of big Business and why? | Dayton, Ohio. Adopted council mangers in states. |
| Who was involved in the Movement for election reform and why? | Hazen Pingree of Detroit, Michigan Tom Johnson of Cleveland, Ohio Pingree introduced a fairer tax system, law fares for transportation, corruption, and set up work relief for unemployed. Tom introduced progressive reforms. |
| How did educational opportunities for middle and upper class women change? | The first colleges accepted female students, Harvard, Brown, and Columbia colleges refused women. Created separate schools for them. |
| How did these new opportunities affect the lives of middle and upper class women? | Let women find work or earn education rather than marrying. They helped the support of social reform. |
| What three strategies were adopted by the women suffragists to win their vote? | 1. State legislature to grant voting rights. 2. Pushed court cases to test 14th amendment. 3. Pushed for a national constitutional amendment to grant women's voting. |
| What were the results of the strategies the suffragists' provided? | 1. Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, and Colorado agreed to women's voting rights. 2. Supreme Court ruled in 1875, and women were granted the right to vote. 3. Stanton succeeded in having the amendment introduced in California, but outlawed later on. |
| What was involved in Teddy Roosevelt's Square Deal? | The resolve of the 1902 Coal Strike, managing trusts, regulating big businesses, dangerous foods and medicines, preserving natural resources and wilderness, and limiting racial discrimination. |
| How did Roosevelt solve the 1902 coal strike? Which legislation helped him? | He called both sides to the W.H. to settle the strike after 5 months. Federal goverment helped. |
| How did Roosevelt manage trusts? Which legislation helped him? | Broke trusts by the help of the court, but unabled to end merger movement. Sherman Antitrust Act in 1890, Northern Securities Company. |
| How did Roosevelt regulate big businesses? Which legislation helped him? | He prohibited wealthy R.R. owners. Interstate Commerce Act of 1887, Hepburn Act of 1902. |
| How did Roosevelt regulate dangerous foods and medicines? Which legislation helped him? | Dictated strict deadline requirements for meat packers, treated the program of Food Meat Industry that was in use until replaced. Meat Inspection Act, Pure Food and Drug Act, FDA. |
| How did Roosevelt preserve wilderness and resources? Which legislation helped him? | Conserved Wilderness. U.S. Forest Bureau in 1887, Reclamation Act of 1902. |
| How did Roosevelt minimize racial discrimination? Which legislation helped him? | Appointed black as the Charleston, South Caroline house Custom House. NAACP. |
| Define Suffrage. | The right to vote. |
| Define Woodrow Wilson. | The winner of 1912 presidential election. |
| Define Nineteenth Amendment. | Granted suffrage for women. |
| Define Muckrakers. | Journalists who uncovered corruption. |
| Define Conservation. | Preservation of alcoholic beverages. |
| Define Prohibition. | The banning of alcoholic beverages. |
| Define Florence Kelley. | Advocate for women and children. |
| Define Clayton Antitrust Act. | Sought to curb growth of monopolies. |
| Defin Bull-Moose Party. | Progressive party headed by Roosevelt. |
| Define Square Deal. | Name of Roosevelt's reform measures. |
| TRUE OR FALSE: Susan B. Anthony was a leading proponent of women suffrage. | TRUE |
| TRUE OR FALSE: The major goal of the prominent progressive governor Robert M. La Follette was reforming the nation's education system. | FALSE: Robert M. La Follette mostly reformed the railroad industry. |
| TRUE OR FALSE: The goal of the NAACP was full voting rights for women. | FALSE: The NAACP's goal aimed for equality to all races. |
| TRUE OR FALSE: Upton Sinclair was the author of The Jungle, a critical look at the nation's meatpacking industry. | TRUE |
| TRUE OR FALSE: The progressive movement aimed at returning control of government to the people, restoring economic opportunities, and correcting injustices in American Life. | TRUE |