Chapter 15 - The Progressive Movement (1880-1920)

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Graduated income tax

The wealthy pay taxes at a higher rate than do the poor or middle class.

Election in which voters choose their party's candidate for the general election

Primary

Procedure that allows voters to propose a bill directly before the legislature

Initiative

Procedure by which voters can remove an elected official from office

Recall

Procedure that allows voters to vote whether or not to put a bill into law

Referendum

Who were the muckrakers?

A group of writers who revealed corruption and inspired reform.

How were the U.S. Senators chosen before the Seventeenth (17th) Amendment took effect?

By the state legislators

What established the income tax?

The 16th Amendment

What inspired President Roosevelt to support the Meat Inspection Act?

He read the description of the meat packing industry in The Jungle.

Progressives thought ____________ needed to play a more active role in solving society's problems.

the government

Which amendment gave women the right to vote?

19th amendment

Progressivism was partly a reaction against ____________________ economics, which emphasized an unregulated free market.

laissez-faire

Which amendment made it illegal to sell alcoholic drinks?

18th amendment

Which of the following was NOT a goal shared by most progressive reformers?

• To reform government and expand democracy

• To protect less fortunate people in society

• To tax the rich and give the money to the poor

• To reform the economy

To tax the rich and give the money to the poor

Who were the progressives?

Reformers who wanted to improve American life and felt that the government could act in the public interest.

• were anti laissez-faire

What was the name of the movement that sought to return control of the gov't to the people?

Progressivism

Which of the following was NOT a goal of the Progressive movement?

• Create economic reform

• Protect big businesses

• Protect social welfare

• Give greater access to democracy

Protect big businesses

Jungle inspired Roosevelt to pass the Meat Inspection Act. Author?

Uptin Sinclair

Who of the following was NOT a leader in women's suffrage?

• Alice Paul

• Susan B. Anthony

• Carrie Chapman Catt

• "Mother Jones"

"Mother Jones"

Which group worked to get the 18th Amendment ratified?

WCTU (Women's Christian Temperance Movement)

What party was Theodore Roosevelt originally a part of?

Republican

Who was the Republican Party candidate in the election if 1912?

William Taft

Which president set a precedent that the federal gov't can get involved in a strike?

Theodore Roosevelt

TR's promise of a fair and equal opportunity for all.

Square Deal

Which agency can investigate unfair trade practices which hurt consumers?

Federal Trade Commission

Roosevelt's position on trusts:

Trusts harmful to the public interest should be broken up.

The Federal Reserve Act

Created a national banking system - regulated the economy and nation's banks.

What was the nickname of Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive party in the 1912 election.

Bull Moose Party

Efforts to save / preserve the environment and our natural resources:

Conservation

Which president busted over 90 trusts?

Taft

The power of the people to choose their party's candidates that may be elected:

Direct primary

Under Roosevelt, and the power of the president...

Increased

Leader of NWP and what did she do?

• Alice Paul

• Picketed at the White House and went on a hunger strike after getting arrested.

Leader of NAWSA and what did she do?

• Carrie Chapman Catt

• Defeated 2 anti suffrage senators after the amendment failed by 2 votes.

National Woman's Party (NWP)

• Radical

• More aggressive strategies

• Focused on passing a Constitutional Amendment.

National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)

• Conservative

• More careful strategies

• Focused on a state by state strategy

What did the temperance movement want?

For people to stop, or at least moderate, their alcohol consumption.

Laws banning the manufacture, sale, and consumption of alcohol.

Prohibition

The idea the government should own and operate industry for the community.

Socialism

Referendum

Power of voters to vote on proposed laws directly

Initiative

Right of voters to put a bill before a state legislature

Direct Primaries

The power of the people to choose their party's candidates

16th Amendment

Gives Congress the power to tax income

Recall

The power of the people to remove officials from office

Alice Paul

Was arrested for picketing outside the White House

Jacob Riis

A journalist who used writing and photography to expose the problems of the poor

Upton Sinclair

Wrote The Jungle.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Created the NAACP and the Niagara Movement

Progressives thought __________ needed to play a more active role in solving society's problems.

The government

Which of the following statements about the women's suffrage movement is NOT true?

• By 1900, women won the right to vote in all elections in three fourths of the states.

• The National Woman Suffrage Association wanted the states to give women the right to vote.

• In 1917, women suffragists staged silent protests outside the White House.

• Delegates to the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention supported giving women the right to vote.

By 1900, women won the right to vote in all elections in three fourths of the states.

Which of these groups led the crusade against the sale of alcoholic beverages?

Women's Christian Temperance Union

In the Standard Oil Trust v. United States case, the Supreme Court ruled that Standard Oil...

...violated the Sherman Antitrust Act.

Progressives failed to address...

• racial and religious discrimination.

• consumer rights.

• women's suffrage.

• monopolies.

...racial and religious discrimination.

True or False: In terms of domestic policy, President Roosevelt was a committed progressive who firmly believed that government should actively balance the needs of competing groups in American society.

True

Under a graduated income tax, a person with a large income...

...pays more income tax than a person with a small income.

What was the primary goal of the Prohibition Movement?

Laws banning the manufacture, sale, and consumption of alcohol

Which statement describes the experiences of African Americans during the Progressive Era?

African Americans experienced discrimination and prejudice throughout the United States.

Which statement best summarizes the perspective of President Theodore Roosevelt concerning natural resources?

The federal government must protect the nation's lands from exploitation.

The laissez-faire argument for the best way to preserve public land was to...

...sell it to lumber companies, who would conserve it as a source of profits.

Women often supported the temperance movement because...

...drinking caused violence and economic hardship for families.

Which of the following BEST describes how women won the right to vote?

• The women's suffrage movement all agreed on the same methods.

• Seneca Falls delegates persuaded President Wilson to approve suffrage.

• Under pressure from many men, Congress passed the Nineteenth Amendment.

• Over fifty years of effort by suffragists secured approval of the Nineteenth Amendment.

Over fifty years of effort by suffragists secured approval of the Nineteenth Amendment.

What is one reason the Progressives turned against President William Howard Taft?

He raised tariffs and blocked conservation efforts that angered Progressives.

Which of these people would be MOST likely to agree with the goals of voter power, more democracy, and economic fairness for all?

• Joseph Statter

• Michael Parker

• William Tweed

• Robert LaFollette

Robert LaFollette

Identify the role of muckrakers in American society during the Progressive Movement of the late 19th and early 20th century.

To expose the abuses and corruptions of society through journalism or activism.

What was the primary goal of the amendments that were ratified during the progressive Era?

To achieve a fairer and more democratic America.

The 17th Amendment addressed the Progressive Era calls for reform. Identify which headline could have been written to support the ratification of the 17th Amendment.

• The current method of electing Senators is undemocratic.

• The Temperance movement demands prohibition.

• Women demand the vote!

• Ban alcohol now!

• We demand suffrage rights for women!!

The current method of electing Senators is undemocratic.

Which amendment addressed the injustice described: Many state legislatures were controlled by powerful "political bosses" that often dictated who was to be elected Senator for that state.

17th Amendment

Which amendment addressed the injustice described: American women were citizens of the United States, but they lacked the right to vote.

19th Amendment

Which amendment addressed the injustice described: Many families were being destroyed by people who drank too heavily and spent much of their earnings on alcoholic beverages.

18th Amendment

The Progressive Era was PRIMARILY concerned with......

...making government more responsible to the needs of the people.

Which was not a part of Teddy Roosevelt's Square deal during the Progressive Era?

• Prohibition

• Conservation

• Corporation regulations

• Consumer protections

Prohibition

Federal Reserve Act

Unregulated banking system which led to financial crises and panics; created a federal banking system.

Federal Trade Commission

Had the power to investigate companies engaging in unfair trade practices.

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

Outlawed monopolistic business practices and prohibited trusts.

Roosevelt ran as a Bull Moose candidate in 1912 because:

• he felt Taft lost the support of Progressives.

• he was a different kind of President than Taft and had left the presidency powerful.

• the Republican Party did not choose him at the convention as the nominee.

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