Progressive Era Compiled Mid-Term

Use the Document below to answer: This passage is more in agreement with the philosophies of which African American activist?

Booker T Washington's accomodation of / to whites?

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)…

was started in 1909 by blacks and whites to address the continued problems of lynching and denial of civil rights to African Americans.

How did Political Machines, like Tammany Hall (run by Boss Tweed), keep winning elections in American cities?

offering work contracts/jobs to immigrants in exchange for them voting (often multiple times) for political "bosses" to run city governments.

The idea of the Social Gospel and "Social Work", was championed by Jane Addams, who opened ______________________ in 1889 in Chicago.

Hull house

The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived…

16th Amendment

What was the main effect of “The Jungle” on the Progressive Presidents and Americans?

Immediate inspections of meat packing plants and passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act

The Temperance Movement against drunkenness, and the Anti-Saloon League, which led the fight to make alcohol illegal or "prohibited"...

was supported by most business and factory owners, progressive women, people in rural areas, and evangelical Christian churches. (known as "Drys".)

This “Prohibition” amendment banned the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors (alcohol)

18th Amendment

This law, signed by President Woodrow Wilson in 1914, clarified a previous law by naming certain business tactics illegal, and to stop monopolies before that start. This same act also exempted labor unions from antitrust suits, and declared strikes, boycotts, and peaceful labor protests legal.

The Clayton Anti-Trust Act

The Standard Oil Monopoly (owned by John D Rockefeller) was broken up into 34 different companies in 1911 using the Sherman Anti-Trust Act by President

William Howard Taft

Led the protest for women's suffrage / voting rights in Tennessee, leading several marches in Nashville from the state capitol, to Centennial Park, where she became the first woman in Tennessee to make a "public" speech. She also brought her children to march with her.

Ann Dallas Dudley

As members of the National Women's Party, she used silent sentinel protests at the White House and hunger strikes to create sympathy and put pressure on President Woodrow Wilson by embarrassing him into supporting the passage of the 19th Amendment.

Alice Paul

This person helped get President Wilson's support to pass women's voting rights by supporting the US entry into WW I and was president of the National American Women's Suffrage Association...

Carrie Chapman Catt

After receiving a letter from his mother, this Tennessee state congressman cast the deciding vote in Tennessee to ratify/accept passage of the 19th Amendment, which gave all American women the right to vote, making Tennessee the "Perfect 36".

Harry Burn

During his presidency from 1909-1913, William Howard Taft upset progressive voters and his former boss, Theodore Roosevelt, by

1. Signing the Payne-Aldrich Tariff, which raised tariffs on many imported products

2. Breaking up some of the “good” trusts/monopolies that Theodore Roosevelt had allowed to continue operating

3. Firing former president Theodore Roosevelt’s head of US Forestry, Gifford Pinchot and allowing 1 million acres of protected land to be opened up to industrial development

The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof. 

17th Amendment

Yellow Journalism is:

When Muckrakers and Journalists exaggerate or sensationalize stories to sell more magazines and newspapers to more readers

Which of these is NOT a goal of the Progressives?

Based on this cartoon as a progressive president, Theodore Roosevelt hoped to

convince Americans that some lands should be preserved and untouched by industry

Voters can put issues on the ballot in some states, and then vote to make it the law, bypassing the state government.

Initiative

Voters get to vote privately, inside a covered booth.

Secret ballot

Voters in political parties can pick a candidate from many candidates to be the nominee in the general election.

Direct primary

When state governments pass a law, then let the people vote to accept or reject the law, such as, a new tax, or a change to the state's constitution.

Referendum

Voters in most cities and states can ask for a new vote, that would remove an elected official from office before their term is over.

Recall

This "Muckraker" published magazine articles of his own (The Shame of the Cities) and of others to expose the corruption "Political" Machines in the nation's city governments

Lincoln Steffens

Theodore Roosevelt’s Corollary (addition) to the Monroe Doctrine included the idea that the USA would intervene with the military if a Latin American country grew dangerous, politically unstable, was in debt, or had a civil war. This is known as

Big Stick Diplomacy

Which of these was not part of Theodore Roosevelt's Square Deal?

every man can be a “king” if government redistributes wealth by taking it from the rich and giving it to the poor

As a Suffragist and Civil Rights Activist, Ida B. Wells travelled the south, researching the number of lynchings and those who participated in it. She compiled her work in a short book called:

The Red Record

As president, Woodrow Wilson wanted to attack the "Triple Wall of Privledge". Which was NOT part of his progressive actions as president?

Raising tariffs on all countries to force more factories / industry to be based inside the United States

Ratified in 1920, this granted universal suffrage/voting rights for women in the US

19th Amendment

Due to their father being put out of business by Standard Oil, this person went after John Rockefeller, in their writing

Ida Tarbell

In Wisconsin, progressivism was very popular; voters wanted progressive taxation, primary elections, initiative, and recall. ____________________ was elected Governor to attempt to bring the progressive ideas to the state.

Robert La Follett

William Howard Taft's "Dollar Diplomacy" hoped to

help Latin American nations avoid conflicts from within, and with European countries they were in debt to, by encouraging Latin American nations to borrow money from the USAThis

The Panama Canal was created by forcing the nation of Columbia to give up its control of Panama so the canal could be finished. This progressive president used American War ships to make it happen:

Theodore Roosevelt

President Woodrow Wilson's "Moral Diplomacy" for Latin American countries claimed to be diffrent from Roosevelt and Taft because,

Wilson stressed that Latin American countries that used democracy (voting) would be allowed to run themselves with less US intervention.

The Presidental election of 1912

1. Saw Theodore Roosevelt split with the Republicans and form the “Progressive Party” aka the “Bull Moose Party”

2. Saw Democrat Woodrow Wilson win the election in a landslide due to the Republicans being split

3. Ended with Theodore Roosevelt and Taft not being elected

This image, used to show the struggle of immigrants in industrial cities, is from

Jacob Riis’ book, “How the Other Half Lives”

Use the document to answer: The goal of Upton Sinclair’s 1906 novel, The Jungle, was to expose _________________ , but instead, it influenced the federal government to begin to regulate the ____________________.

poor working conditions / meatpacking industry.

The "Bully Pulpit" is how speeches were used by Presidents like Theodore Roosevelt to persuade the American People and the News Media (and Muckrakers) to put pressure on Congress to make/pass progressive laws.

True

Use the document to help answer;

During the Progressive Era, W. E. B. Du Bois agreed with all of the following EXCEPT: (Which one of these did W.E.B. DuBois disagree with)

blacks should work to develop industrial skills and not agitate/protest for suffrage/voting rights or equality.

Journalists who report on, or expose, the unsafe or corrupt conditions in American society and business:

Muckrakers