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progressive era intro

What were the years of the progressive era?

1890-1920.

What was the progressive movement?

A movement of reform where the government is viewed as involved to fix issues.

Who were the progressive presidents?

Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson.

Who was the man who invented the idea of pragmatism?

William James.

What was the idea of John Dewey?

Education thrives with active engagement.

Who had the idea of timing factory workers to make work more efficient, streamlining the process of work.

Frederick Taylor (Taylorism).

What was the effect of Taylorism on factory production?

Led to modern mass production techniques and the invention of the assembly line.

What publishers often published works of muckrakers?

Collier’s and McClure’s exposes.

Who coined the term muckraker?

Theodore Roosevelt.

What muckraker exposed standard oils practices?

Ida Tarbell.

What was Ida Tarbell’s publication?

The History of Standard Oil.

What muckraker exposed practices in the meat packing industry?

Upton Sinclair.

What was the name of Upton Sinclair’s book, on the conditions of the meatpacking industry in Chicago?

The Jungle.

What two acts would be passed due to “The Jungle”?

The Pure Food and Drug Act, The Meat Inspection Act.

What was the movement that sought to apply Christian ethics to social problems?

Social Gospel.

What muckraker took photos of the insides of tenement houses?

Jacob Riis.

What was the name of Jacob Riis’ publication?

“How the Other Half Lives".

What muckraker exposed municipal corruption (political machines)?

Lincoln Steffens.

What was the name of Lincoln Steffens publication?

The Shame of Cities.

What Muckraker exposed the conditions of child laborers?

Lewis Hine.

What ballot, also known as a secret ballot, helped protect voter privacy during elections?

Australian ballot.

What was a direct primary?

gives voters the power to directly nominate candidates.

What is an initiative?

A method to force the legislature to consider a bill; propose a law by citizens and get it submitted to the people for a vote OR the legislature can make that a law.

What is a referendum?

A method of passing a law that allows citizens to vote on proposed laws.

What is a recall?

An election to determine whether an official should be removed from office before the end of his/her term.

What amendment allowed for the direct election of senators?

17th.

What reform happened to municipal utilites?

Utilities passed laws to limit rates or were publicized.

What type of government was developed after recovery from the Galveston Hurricane?

The City Manager (elected by city council).

Who was Hazen Pingree?

The mayor of Detroit who uses pragmatism. He made a community garden.

What was the most progressive state during the progressive era?

Wisconsin.

Who was the governor of Wisconsin who was progressive and considered the state the “laboratory of progressivism?”

Robert La Follete.

What tragedy in New York City led to safety reforms?

The Triangle Shirtwaist fire.

What happened as a result of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire?

56 worker safety laws were passed.

What was the association that Florence Kelley was a part of?

National Consumers’ league.

What area of reform did Florence Kelley focus on?

Child labor.

Who was the founder of the Women’s Christian temperance union?

Frances Willard.

What association was a temperance union that wanted to abolish bars. Carrie Nation was a part of it.

Anti-Saloon League.

What amendment began prohibition in order to save grains for troops?

18th Amendment.

What theory hypothesized that men and women lived out separate roles?

Separate Spheres theory.

What association was headed by Carrie Chapman Catt?

The National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA).

What organization did Alice Paul when she broke away from NAWSA?

The National Woman’s’ Party.

What amendment did Alice Paul advocate for?

The Equal Rights Amendment.

What amendment gave women suffrage?

19th amendment.

Who coined the term “Birth Control”?

Margaret Sanger.

What book did Margaret Sanger write?

The Woman rebel.

What was Margaret Sanger the founder of?

Planned parenthood.

What university was founded by Booker T. Washington?

The Tuskegee Institute.

What was Booker T. Washington’s controversial speech/plan?

The Atlanta Compromise.

What did Booker T. Washington advocate for?

Gradualism.

Who was the first African American to get a degree from Harvard?

W.E.B Dubois.

What book did W.E.B Dubois write?

The Souls of Black Folk.

What organization was led by W.E.B Dubois?

NAACP.

What movie by Griffith glorified the KKK?

Birth of a Nation.

What did Ida B Wells advocated against?

Lynchings.

Who was the leader of the socialist party of America?

Eugene V. Debs.

What was the nickname for the workers in the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)?

“The Wobblies.”

What act allowed the president the ability to designate federal public lands, waters and cultural and historical sites as national monuments?

Antiquities Act.

What well known national park did Theodore Roosevelt make in 1908?

Grand Canyon.

Who mediated negotiations between coal factory owners and labor union strikers in what is known as the “Square Deal"?

Teddy Roosevelt.

What Hepburn Act do?

It strengthened the Interstate Commerce Commission.

How many trusts did Taft bust?

90 cases.

What did the Mann Elkins Act do?

gave the ICC power to regulate RR rates and to oversee telephone and telegraph lines.

Which amendment provided a graduated income tax?

16th amendment.

What plan by Woodrow Wilson limited big business and big government?

New Freedom.

What Tariff was immediately passed by Wilson when he got into office.

The Simmons Tariff.

What was the greatest success that Woodrow Wilson had during his presidency. (Hint: banking).

The Federal Reserve Act.

What did the Federal Reserve Act do?

It created 12 regional banks and regulated federal money supply.

What does the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) regulate?

Everything that is not banking or transportation.

What Act Strengthened the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?

Clayton Anti-Trust Act.