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Unit 13-Progressives
Progressive ERA AP
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What organization formed the beginning of the modern civil rights movement? | NAACP National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
| How did the NAACP handle themselves in the Civil Rights Movement? | They were mostly peaceful and took legal action to make progress |
| Who was the 1st southerner elected President since the Civil War (also a Democrat)? He was deeply religious and had his doctorate. | Woodrow Wilson |
| Whose most important act as President included creating the Federal Reserve? | Woodrow Wilson |
| What does the Federal Reserve do? | regulates money in circulation by adjusting interest rates |
| Whose administration included the passing of the 16th amendment (the graduated income tax)? | Taft |
| What is a graduated income tax? | The more money you make, the higher the % of your money will be taxed |
| What Supreme Court Case concerning Child Labor said that the government did not have the right to conrol interstate commerce?? | Hammer V Dagenhart |
| Whose administration regulated trusts, passed hte Pure Drug and Food Act, the Meat Inspection Act AND created National Parks? | Roosevelt |
| Whose Administration included the Sherman Anti-trust Act? | Roosevelt |
| Whose Administration gave women the right to vote (19th amendment)? | Wilson |
| Whose administration included the Clayton Antitrust act which stated that Labor Unions were not trusts. | Wilson |
| Under Whose administration did the US enter WWI? | Wilson |
| Describe your average Progressive | Middle class, protestant |
| What is the name for a journalists who exposed social wrongs and incited reform? | muckraker |
| What did Ida Tarbell expose? | corruption in oil industry (rockefeller) |
| What did Jacob Riis expose? | photojournalist who exposed poverty in the tenement housing |
| What did Upton Sinclair expose? | in "the jungle" he exposed problems in the meat packing industry |
| What did Lincoln Steffens expose? | corrupt city governments |
| The roots of progressivism stemmed from what 2 movements? | socialism and populists |
| Who did populist try to appeal to? | the common man |
| Who was the leader of the American socialist party? | Eugene Debs |
| What was the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) | Union of radical socialists |
| Who was the populist candidate who ran against William McKinley in 1896? | William Jennings Bryan |
| What was William Jennings Bryan's opinion of silveR/ | "You shall not crucify mankind on a cross of gold"... silver was more attainable- he thought we should coin silver |
| What happened to William McKinley? | He was assassinated |
| Who became president after McKinley? | Teddy Roosevelt |
| Who was Boss Tweed? | Head of the Tammany Hall Political Machine in NYC (very corrupt) |
| What is another word for "municipal"? | city |
| What did political machines do? | provide welfare services to immigrants in exchange for votes |
| How did municipal reforms fight against political machines? | created city commissions |
| What is a settlement house? | a place where immigrant poor could go to learn how to read/music/american cuisine etc |
| Who created the 1st settlement house in america? | Jane Addams- The Hull House- Chicago |
| Who was the progressive governor of Wisconsin- "Fightin Bob"? | Robert LaFollette |
| What is another word for the Australian ballot? | the secret ballot |
| What are examples of state reforms passed by progressives? | direct primary, direct election of senators, initiatives, referendums, recalls, australian ballots, registration laws |
| What did the 17th amendment do? | direct election of US senators |
| What is female suffrage? | women's right to vote |
| Who broke up the most trusts out of Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson? | Taft |
| Who wanted to preserve natural resources scientificallly and efficiently? | roosevelt |
| What ist he 16th amendment? | graudated income tax |
| Who were WEB DuBois and Booker T Washington different? | DuBOIS wanted immediate equality, Washington was willingn to compromise (the Atlanta Compromise) |