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8th Grade Ch 17
The Reform Era
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Policy of businesses making decisions without government regulation | laissez faire |
| Journalists who exposed the unfair actions of businesses and monopolies in the cities | Muckrakers |
| What did Progressives think people needed to benefit society and business | education |
| led the education movement | John Dewey |
| What four improvements did Progressive believe was needed to make cities pleasant and livable | zoning laws, safe apartments, public parks, and beautiful buildings |
| Who wanted primary elections, jobs to skilled people, and business to stop giving money to political parties | Robert La Follette |
| Lets citizens suggest a bill by signatures on a petition | Initiative |
| the way people can vote directly for or directly against a bill | Referendum |
| Special election which allows voters to remove an elected official from office | Recall |
| Which president is credited with beginning conservation efforts to save the wilderness | Theodore Roosevelt |
| Which amendment set up a federal income tax | 16th |
| Which amendment called for the direct election of senators | 17th |
| Who was the Bull Moose candidate for the 1912 election | Theodore Roosevelt |
| How were the democrats able to win the election of 1912 | there was a split in the Republican party between those who supported Taft and those who supported Roosevelt and the Bull Moose Party |
| Which president set up the Federal Reserve Act | Woodrow Wilson |
| What was set up to stop unfair business practices | Federal Trade Commission |
| What outlawed the manufacture, transportation, sale and possession of alcoholic beverages | Prohibition |
| What group wanted to replace capitalism and have the workers or the government control of factories and business | Socialists |
| What association worked hard to get the women the right to vote | National Woman's Suffrage Association |
| This amendment gave women the right to vote | 19th |
| the setting up or the starting of | establishment |
| great pain or unhappiness | misery |
| not real or natural | artificial |
| the subjects taught in school | curriculum |
| a very difficult or risky time | crisis |
| During hard times of 1893, different groups that wanted change came together as a national reform movement | Progressivism |
| Progressive movement was made up of mostly | middle class people |
| Progressives wanted more people to be able to get a basic | education |
| What did reformers use special groups to find in city government | corruption |
| extreme | radical |
| in favor of political change and reform | liberal |
| to say something is true under oath | testify |
| an organized movement for change | crusade |
| ready to fight for a cause | militant |
| temperance, prohibition laws in most states, 18th amendment | Carry Nation |
| restrictions in child labor, formed National Child Labor Committee, Children's Bureau and Child Labor Act | Florence Kelley |
| socialism, formed Social Party of America | Eugene V. Debs |
| anarchism, made little change | Emma Goldman |
| American Labor Movement, successful strikes but died out in World War I | Big Bill Hayward |
| Women's suffrage, passage of the 19th Amendment allowing women to vote in 1920 | Carry Chapman Catt and Alice Paul |
| Challenged Jim Crow Laws, rejected by the Supreme Court who ruled segregation was legal | Homer Plessy |
| stop lynching of Blacks, continued work throughout entire life | Ida B. Wells |
| End discrimination of Blacks, founded NAACP | W.E.B. Du Bois |
| a meeting of voting members of a political party | primary |
| a wrongful act that shocks people | scandal |
| to deal with | reckon |
| a person chosen by a political party to run for office | nominee |
| well spoken, using language well | eloquent |
| Progressive reformers set out to win control | state government |
| first and most remarkable reforms took place in the state | Wisconsin |
| President Theodore Roosevelt made reforms at this level | federal |
| President Wilson's reforms were aimed at protecting people from | powerful companies and banks |
| Were a major part of almost every effort for moral change | women |
| the 18th amendment made it against the law to make or sell | alcohol |
| the fight against this type of labor was not very effective | Child Labor |
| In 1920, passage of the 19th amendment gave women the right | to vote |
| In the South these laws kept white and black Americans separate | Jim Crow Laws |
| W.E.B. Du Bois urged black Americans to demand their | Civil Rights |
| Caused the working conditions of factory workers to threaten health and lives | government did nothing about long hours, low wages and dangerous conditions |
| Solution to the working conditions of factory workers | Government regulation of big business and child labor laws |
| Caused urban immigrants to be overwhelmed by the strangeness of American life | great numbers of immigrants could not speak English and were the victims of big business |
| Solution to urban immigrants being overwhelmed with strangeness of American life | Settlement Houses that provided education, family care and social activities |
| Cause of classrooms not adequately preparing urban working class children for adulthood | class emphasized rote learning and strict behavior, not on job skills or teaching the English language |
| Solution to old style classrooms | teaching through participation and Americanization teaching English, industrial education and job training |
| Cause of overcrowded slums | rapid growth of cities without planning and politicians ignore the problem |
| Solution to overcrowded slums | zoning laws and city planning, as well as newer and safer housing |
| Cause of governments not delivering necessary services to their inhabitants | Cities ran by bosses who were self serving |
| Solution to governments not delivering necessary services to their inhabitants | Commissions exposed corruption and elections were held city wide |
| This reform guarded against city boss systems which encouraged corruption through patronage | direct primary elections |
| This reform guarded against businesses controlling politicians with bribes | Prohibition of business contributions to political parties |
| This reform guarded against fraud and violence at polling places | secret ballot |
| These reforms guarded against voters having no power in local government | initiative, referendum and recall |
| This reform guarded against irresponsibility of business and contaminated food | Meat Inspection Act |
| This reform guarded against the misuse and waste of US natural resources | Conservation of natural resources |
| This reform guarded against harmful additions in food and medicine and false advertising | Pure Food and Drug Act |
| This reform guarded against the government being financially unable to carry out Progressive reforms | 16th Amendment |
| This reform guarded against the buying and selling of Senate appointments | 17th Amendment |
| This reform guarded against the instability of private banks | Federal Reserve Act |
| This reform guarded against business monopolies | Clayton Antitrust Act |
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