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Progressive Era
Chapter 16
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What were the main problems reformers addressed? | Work conditions, women's rights, children's rights, economic reform, and social welfare |
| What were the goals of reformers? | End corruption or political and gov. bosses, gov. be honest on all levels, people having more say in whose elected and what laws are created |
| Who helped the poor when there bosses didn't care? | YMCA, Salvation army, churches, settlement homes |
| Who was a political activist who fought for women and children's rights, and helped pass laws of limiting women's working hours and child labor? | Florence Kelly |
| Who are journalists who expose corruptions in business and society? | Muckrakers |
| Who exposed standard oil company's cut throat methods of eliminating competition? | Ida Tarbell |
| Who shed light on the need to reforming of the meat packing industry? | Upton Sinclair |
| Who publishes "How the Other Half Lived" and was a muckraker? | Jacob Riis |
| Who published "The Shame of Cities" and exposed the corrupted city government? | Lincoln Steffens |
| What groups wanted to ban alcohol? | Anti-Saloon leagues and WCTU |
| What measures did citizens fight and win? | Secret ballot, initiative, referendum, and recall |
| What voting starts with the people, citizens write and propose laws, requires signatures, and once on ballot voters say yes or no? | Initiative voting |
| What kind of voting starts with legislation, where laws and written and approved by the people, and had two types? | Referendum |
| Which type of referendum is it where a legislator proposes and the people approve or deny? | Legislative Referendum |
| Which type of referendum is it where citizens petition to appeal or uphold an existing law? | Popular(veto) Referendum |
| What was passed because the people wanted to choose the state senator? | 17th Amendment (direct election of U.S. senators) |
| What did many women do as an occupation? | Garment trade, classrooms, department stores, and office workers |
| What gender were the main progressive leaders? | Women |
| What were the the three ways women tried to convince people to allow them to vote? | Convince state legislators, pursue court cases testing the 14th Amendment, and push for national constitutional amendment |
| Who was nicknamed "fighting Bob" and helped regulate big businesses? | Robert La Follette |
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