APUSH - Ch. 28 Study Guide

Question 1

What was the real heart of the progressive movement?

Answer 1

to use the government as an agency of human welfare

Question 2

What were the political roots of the progressive movement?

Answer 2

the Greenback Labor Party of the 1870’s and the Populists of the 1890s ???

Question 3

What was Progressivism closely tied to?

Answer 3

woman’s suffrage???

Question 4

What religious movement was closely linked to progressivism?

what did it do?

Answer 4

social gospel - a reform movement that used a religious doctrine to demand better housing and living conditions for the urban poor

Question 5

What did Lincoln Steffens expose in his series of articles entitled The Shame of the Cities?

Answer 5

he unmasked the corrupt alliance between big business and urban government.

Question 6

What did Ida Tarbell write about?

Answer 6

a factual expose of the Standard Oil Company

Question 7

In their progressive attack on social ills, what did most muckrakers believed was their primary goal? (3)

Answer 7

to right social wrongs

to cleanse capitalism

get more democracy

Question 8

What organization advocated for the prohibition of liquor?

Answer 8

the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)

Question 9

Where did political progressivism emerge? (3)

Answer 9

in both major parties, in all regions, and at all levels of government

Question 10

In order to regain the political power that the people had lost to the “interests”, what political/election reforms did the progressives advocate? (2)

Answer 10

labor unions

welfare programs

???

Question 11

What other social reforms did the progressive advocate? (5)

Answer 11

urban reformers - attacked “slumlords”, juvenile delinquency, and wide-open prostitution

factory reform

temperance?

settlement house movement?

labor movements / child labor reforms

Question 12

1What issues did women in the progressive movement address? (7)

Answer 12

poverty

political corruption

intolerable living and working conditions

temperance

moral and “maternal” issues

factory reform

gender discrimination

Question 13

After the horrible Triangle Shirtwaist fire how did many states react?

Answer 13

30 states had put workers’ compensation laws on the books, providing insurance to workers injured in industrial accidents

Question 14

Describe the progressive-inspired city-manager system of government

Answer 14

designed to take politics out of city/town/urban administration

Question 15

What did Roosevelt label his reform proposals? (3)

Answer 15

the “Square Deal” for capital, labor, and the public at large

Question 16

As a part of his reform program, what did Teddy Roosevelt advocate? (3)

Answer 16

the program embraced the three C’s: control of the corporations, consumer protection, and conservation of natural resources

Question 17

What was one unusual and significant characteristic of the anthracite coal strike in 1902?

Answer 17

TR threatened to seize the mines and operate them with federal troops and it was the first ever threat to use federal bayonets against capital, rather than labor

Question 18

What were the Elkins and Hepburn Acts designed to do? (2)

Answer 18

to impose penalties on railroads that offered rebates and customers who accepted them

Hepburn acts were designed to restrict free passes or bribery

Question 19

What did President Roosevelt believe the government policy should be toward trusts? (2)

Answer 19

combination and integration

believed in regulating big business combines

Question 20

What inspired the passage of the Federal Meat Inspection Act?

Answer 20

Upton Sinclair’s novel, The Jungle - he exploited the plight of workers, but the way he described the filth, disease, and putrefaction in the factories caught the people’s attention

Question 21

According to the text, what may have been Teddy Roosevelt’s most important and enduring achievement?

Answer 21

conservation and reclamation

Question 22

What were some significant accomplishments of TR’s presidency? (6)

Answer 22

TR’s Square Deal

preservation of the nation’s forests

conservation and reclamation

enlarged the power and prestige of the presidential office

helped shape the progressive movement and beyond it the liberal reform campaigns

he opened American’s eyes to the fact that they share the world with other nations

Question 23

What was President Taft’s foreign policy was called?

Answer 23

dollar diplomacy - term given by Taft’s critics to the policy of supporting U.S. investments and political interests abroad

Question 24

Why did Teddy Roosevelt decide to run for the presidency in 1912? (2)

Answer 24

b/c he saw Taft working with the hated Old Guard and because they were discarding “my policies”