| Question | Answer |
| Name one problem that lead to progressivism. | -work conditions
-rights for women and children
-crime
-urban conditions
-social welfare |
| Name a problem of the 1890's. | -huge gap between rich and poor
-tremendous economic & political power of the rich
-wealther people tended to flaunt their money
-industrial workers were hideously poor |
| What were the four goals of reformers? | 1. Protect social welfare
2. Promote moral improvement
3. Create economic reform
4. Political corruption |
| What were the journalists and urban photographers called who exposed people to the plight of the unfourtunate in hopes of sparking reform? | Muckrakers |
| What were some political reforms? | -tried to put more power in the hands of the people
-innovative changes in city government
-more fair elections |
| Whats a direct primary? | Where voters select a party's candidate for public office. |
| Whats the 17th amendment? | Where voters elect their senators directly. |
| Whats a secret ballot? | Where people vote privately without fear of coercion |
| What does initative mean? | It allows citizens to propose new laws. |
| What does referendum mean? | It allows citizens to vote on a proposed or existing law. |
| What does recall mean? | It allows voters to remove an elected official from office. |
| The Sherman anti-trust was..? | It was to prevent any businesses structures that restrains trade. |
| The Clayton anti-trust was..? | It was to expand Sherman by outlawing price fixing. |
| What were some social & moral reforms? | -child labor laws
-limit working hours & minimum wages
-workers compensation
-Keating-Owens Act of 1916
-prohibition initatives
-minimum safty standards on the job
-minimum standards for housing codes
-city beautification |
| Which president is known as the "trust buster?" | President Theodore Roosevelt. |
| Define the pure food and drug act. | Outlawed food and drugs containing harmful ingredients and required containers to list ingredients. |
| Define meat inspection act. | Required federal government inspections of meant shipped across state lines and made meat processing plants cleaner. |
| Whats the 16th Amendment? | Federal income tax. |
| Whats the 18th Amendment? | Prohibition. |
| Whats the 19th Amendment? | Vote for women. |
