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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 |
| What was the movement that wanted to ban alcohol and was accomplished because of the 18th amendment? | Prohibition |
| What is in some states where an early election occurs if an official should finish there term or not? | Recall |
| What three presidents were apart of the Progressive Era? | Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson |
| What was the leading women's rights org. and was led by Carrie Chapman Catt? | NAWSA |
| What were the kind of jobs mainly had until the 1870s? | Domestic servants |
| Who led the National Women's party with Lucy Burns and used radical methods to push for an amendment? | Alice Paul |
| What are Smith's, Vassar, and Wellesley? | Women's colleges |
| What was the three part strategy suffragists used to obtain the right to vote? | Use courts against the 14th amendment, state by state strategy, and push for amendment |
| What was the presidents use of media to reach directly out to Americans and shape public policy? | Bully pulpit |
| What law required truth in labels of food and medicine? | Pure Food and Drug act |
| Who is the head of Bureau of Forestry, friend of Roosevelt, and favored multi-use policy for natural resources? | Gifford Pinchot |
| When Roosevelt was trust busting who did he want to regulate? | Monopolies |
| Who were the 4 candidates who ran in the 1912 election? | Taft (Republican), Roosevelt (Progressive Bull Moose), Wilson (Democrat), Debs (Socialist) |
| Who was the Secretary of War in the Roosevelt administration? | Taft |
| Who became the Supreme Court Justice after there presidency was up and did more trust busting than Roosevelt? | Taft |
| Who is Tafts interior secretary who put protected land back into the public, causing anger? | Ballinger |
| What made it illegal to buy out the stock of another company and established a right to strike? | Clayton Act |
| What agency is known as a watchdog for consumers and is given the power to stop unfair business practices? | Federal Trade Commission |
| What plan reformed how banks were organized and helped regulate the value of our currency and establish interest rates? | Federal Reserve System |
| What called for the people to elect their senators directly? | 17th Amendment |
| What women's support for "this struggle" helped convince the U.S. to extend suffrage nationally? | WWI |
| Who was the woman who was a poet and novelist and advocated for African American rights? | Helen Hunt Jackson |
| What was the first federal agency for improving families and children's lives? | Children's Bureau |
| Who was a reformer at the Hull House, wanted to improve lives of children, disabled, and mentally ill and director of the Children's Bureau? | Julia Lathrop |
| What president was put in after McKinley was assassinated in 1912 and often used the bully pulpit to influence media? | Roosevelt |
| What president believed trusts weren't all bad and only fought with those who harmed public opinion? | Roosevelt |
| Who mediated the 1902 Coal Strike, passed the Pure Food and Drug Act, created many national forest services, and wasn't a strong with civil rights for African Americans? | Roosevelt |
| What Republican defeated William Jennings Bryan in 1908, had little credit, and didn't use the bully pulpit? | Taft |
| What party was made by Roosevelt when Taft was nominated as a Republican? | Bull Moose Party |
| Who won the election of 1912, was a Democrat, created the "New Freedom" program, and strengthened the Sherman Act? | Wilson |
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