Study Exercise- Agarian Revolt and Progressive Era

City Manager Plan

This municipal reform placed a trained businessman or engineer in charge of the day-to-day affairs of the city.

Muckrakers

A group of socially conscientious journalists who exposed society's ills during the Progressive Era.

The Jungle

This book exposed unsanitary conditions in the meat packing industry.

Mugwumps

Independent republicans and democrats fighting the spoils system.

Woodrow Wilson

This state level reformer was the governor of New Jersey.

Robert Lafollette

He was the most progressive of all state level reformers.

Lucretia Mott

A significant leader of the Woman Suffrage movement, her meeting with Elizabeth Cady Stanton gave the movement needed momentum in the mid-19th century.

Henry Demarest Lloyd

He was said to have been the first muckraker.

Seneca Falls, NY

Site of the Woman Suffrage National Convention listing demands that provoked sarcasm and ridicule from the press.

18th Amendment

Which Constitutional Amendment was constructed on the back of the Volstead Act?

Lincoln Steffens

This muckraker exposed municipal corruption in 'Shame of the Cities'.

Wisconsin

This state was considered to be a 'laboratory of progressivism'.

Jane Addams

A suffragist, she founded Hull House.

Initiative

The state level progressive measure that allowed voters to circumvent unresponsive legislatures.

Theodore Roosevelt

This national progressive leader proposed a square deal for Americans, one that would focus on conservation, regulation and consumer protection.

Referendum

The state level progressive measure that allowed voters to recall unjust laws.

Ida Tarbell

She exposed the cutthroat tactics of John D. Rockefeller in 'History of Standard Oil'.

Hiram Johnson

This state level reformer was the governor of California.

New Jersey

This state was known as the 'Mother of all Trusts,' and Woodrow Wilson was its reform-minded Governor.

Women's Suffrage

It was the largest single crusade of the Progressive Movement.

McClure’s

This magazine was a chief outlet for muckrakers to publish their findings.

Eugene V. Debs

This socialist was a candidate for President in 1919 while serving time in a federal penitentiary.

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

This federal legislation helped weaken trusts, becoming the precedent for more comprehensive antitrust reform.

Galveston, TX

Municipal level reform was prompted in this city because of the tragic effects of a hurricane in 1900.

Jacob Riis

In 'How the Other Half Lives', this muckraker exposed conditions in Manhattan's lower east side.

Northern Securities

These three robber barons formed the firm, a railroad conglomerate that was ultimately broken up by the Federal government.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

She wrote the Ninth Resolution at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848.

James Gordon Bennett

The 'New York Herald' journalist who in reprinting the 'Declaration of Sentiments' to criticize it, actually brought positive attention to it.

Jim Crow Legislation

This process of discrimination became the Agrarian Revolt's principal negative effect.

Tom Watson

This 'Agrarian Rebel' was on the People's Party National ticket in 1896 with W. J. Bryan.

Pitchfork Ben Tillman

This South Carolina politician and Farmer's Alliance member never left the Democratic Party.

W. J. Bryan

The 'Boy Orator of the Platte', he delivered the famous 'Cross of Gold' speech in 1896.

C. W. Macune

This economist was leader and founder of the National Farmer's Alliance.

Reuben Kolb

An Alabama democrat and farmer's alliance member, he became famous for his gem of a watermelon.

The Grange

This farmer-based organization initiated pro-farmer legislation in the Midwest.

Oliver H. Kelly

Originally from Carrabelle, FL, he was founder of the Patrons of Husbandry.

Sub-Treasury Plan

This plank in the Ocala platform called for the Federal government to construct warehouses in communities producing more than $250,000 worth of agriculture annually.

Ocala, FL

The southern town chosen to host a National Farmer's Alliance convention because it was a non-segregated community.

Free Silver

This issue was to be the principal plank in the 'People's Party' campaign in 1896, but was usurped by the Democrats first.

Positive effects of the Agrarian Revolt

Farmers learned to use collective clout; Pro farmer legislation or Granger laws; The coming together of black and white farmers; Coop exemptions.