APUSH - Ch. 28 Study Guide Flashcards
What was the real heart of the progressive movement?
to use the government as an agency of human welfare
What were the political roots of the progressive movement?
the Greenback Labor Party of the 1870’s and the Populists of the 1890s ???
What was Progressivism closely tied to?
woman’s suffrage???
What religious movement was closely linked to progressivism?
what did it do?
social gospel - a reform movement that used a religious doctrine to demand better housing and living conditions for the urban poor
What did Lincoln Steffens expose in his series of articles entitled The Shame of the Cities?
he unmasked the corrupt alliance between big business and urban government.
What did Ida Tarbell write about?
a factual expose of the Standard Oil Company
In their progressive attack on social ills, what did most muckrakers believed was their primary goal? (3)
to right social wrongs
to cleanse capitalism
get more democracy
What organization advocated for the prohibition of liquor?
the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
Where did political progressivism emerge? (3)
in both major parties, in all regions, and at all levels of government
In order to regain the political power that the people had lost to the “interests”, what political/election reforms did the progressives advocate? (2)
labor unions
welfare programs
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What other social reforms did the progressive advocate? (5)
urban reformers - attacked “slumlords”, juvenile delinquency, and wide-open prostitution
factory reform
temperance?
settlement house movement?
labor movements / child labor reforms
1What issues did women in the progressive movement address? (7)
poverty
political corruption
intolerable living and working conditions
temperance
moral and “maternal” issues
factory reform
gender discrimination
After the horrible Triangle Shirtwaist fire how did many states react?
30 states had put workers’ compensation laws on the books, providing insurance to workers injured in industrial accidents
Describe the progressive-inspired city-manager system of government
designed to take politics out of city/town/urban administration
What did Roosevelt label his reform proposals? (3)
the “Square Deal” for capital, labor, and the public at large
As a part of his reform program, what did Teddy Roosevelt advocate? (3)
the program embraced the three C’s: control of the corporations, consumer protection, and conservation of natural resources
What was one unusual and significant characteristic of the anthracite coal strike in 1902?
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
What were the Elkins and Hepburn Acts designed to do? (2)
to impose penalties on railroads that offered rebates and customers who accepted them
Hepburn acts were designed to restrict free passes or bribery
What did President Roosevelt believe the government policy should be toward trusts? (2)
combination and integration
believed in regulating big business combines
What inspired the passage of the Federal Meat Inspection Act?
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
According to the text, what may have been Teddy Roosevelt’s most important and enduring achievement?
conservation and reclamation
What were some significant accomplishments of TR’s presidency? (6)
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
What was President Taft’s foreign policy was called?
dollar diplomacy - term given by Taft’s critics to the policy of supporting U.S. investments and political interests abroad
Why did Teddy Roosevelt decide to run for the presidency in 1912? (2)
b/c he saw Taft working with the hated Old Guard and because they were discarding “my policies”
