Ch. 11

Question 1

trust buster

Answer 1

a person who wanted to destroy all trusts

Question 2

square deal

Answer 2

Theodore Roosevelt’s campaign promise that all groups would have an equal opportunity to succeed

Question 3

pure food and drug act

Answer 3

a law that required food and drug makers to list the ingredients on packages

Question 4

conservation

Answer 4

the protection of natural resources

Question 5

bull moose party

Answer 5

a group of Progressive Republicans who supported Theodore Roosevelt during the 1912 election

Question 6

new freedom

Answer 6

President Wilson’s program to break up trusts and restore American economic competition

Question 7

federal reserve act

Answer 7

a law that set up the Federal Reserve System to regulate the national’s financial sector

Question 8

federal trade commission

Answer 8

a gov agency created to ensure fair competition

Question 9

theodore roosevelt

Answer 9

president who was sick all his life, who decided to get into politics determined to end corruption and work for the public interest

Question 10

william howard taft

Answer 10

president who ran for president, was secretary of navy, and was backed by roosevelt

Question 11

woodrow wilson

Answer 11

chosen candidate of progressive party (party opposing bull moose party)

Question 12

NAACP

Answer 12

an organization that worked toward equal rights for african americans

Question 13

gentlemen’s agreement

Answer 13

an agreement between Japan and the US that limited Japanese immigration

Question 14

prohibition

Answer 14

a ban on making, selling, and possession of alcohol

Question 15

suffrage

Answer 15

the right to vote

Question 16

skyscraper

Answer 16

a tall building made of lightweight steel frame

Question 17

suburb

Answer 17

a residential area near or on the outskirts of a city

Question 18

department store

Answer 18

a large retail store offering a variety of goods organized in separate departments

Question 19

ragtime

Answer 19

a new kind of music with a lively, rhythmic sound

Question 20

compulsory education

Answer 20

laws that required children to go to school until 6th grade

Question 21

parochial

Answer 21

a school sponsored by a religious organization

Question 22

yellow journalism

Answer 22

news reporting that was often untrue or biased, that relies on sensational headlines

Question 23

dime novel

Answer 23

thrilling adventure stories

Question 24

realism

Answer 24

people who tried to show life as it is

Question 25

women's christian temperance union

Answer 25

a group organized to prohibit the manufacturing and selling of alcohol in the US

Question 26

national woman suffrage association

Answer 26

a group of women that worked to have a constitutional amendment passed that allowed women the right to vote

Question 27

carrie nation

Answer 27

a radical member of the temperance movement

Question 28

carrie chapman catt

Answer 28

a suffrage leader who campaigned for the 19th amendment

Question 29

susan b. anthony

Answer 29

a crusader for the womens suffrage movement

Question 30

booker t. washington

Answer 30

someone who spoke for several african americans during the late 1800s

Question 31

w.e.b. du bois

Answer 31

someone who spoke for another half of african americans when they were being discriminated saying they needed to fight back and not quietly accept discrimination

Question 32

roosevelts reform goals

Answer 32

square deal

Question 33

william howard tafts reform goals

Answer 33

disliked trusts, favored graduated income tax, approved safety rules for mines, signed laws giving gov workers an eight hour work day, and set up an office to deal with child labor

Question 34

square deal

Answer 34

promise that all groups (farmers, businessmen, etc.) would have an equal opportunity

Question 35

reforms under woodrow wilson

Answer 35

tried to break up trusts into smaller companies, passed graduated income tax, and passed federal reserve act

Question 36

what were womens efforts to win suffrage and improve oppurtunities

Answer 36

catt chapman's plan to fight for suffrage, marched, went on hunger strikes, picketed the white house, and met with president wilson to get him to agree to the 19th amendment

Question 37

explain the campaign against alcohol

Answer 37

mostly wives and mothers since they saw the dangers of alcohol (economic hardship and violence), opposed saloons since political bosses went into saloons to make important political decisions, some took the approach of speaking out about the dangers while others went into saloons with weapons to break kegs and liquor bottles

Question 38

how did african americans confront discrimination during the progressive era

Answer 38

some rioted, some spoke out about discrimination, and some did not do anything

Question 39

how did city life change during the progressive era

Answer 39

skyscrapers, steam driven passenger trains, subways, electric streetcars, parks, and department stores

Question 40

how did public education grow during the progressive era

Answer 40

states improved public school levels, kids had to go to school through 6th grade, parochial schools opened, immigrants were taught english in major cities, and universities were built

Question 41

identify forms of entertainment people watched during the progressive era

Answer 41

ragtime (a type of music close to the blues) and vaudeville (show including singers, dancers, singers and dancer, and acrobats)

Question 42

explain the interest of the progressive era and painters in subjects of everyday life

Answer 42

artists and writers tried to find the gritty side of modern life and paint using local color, many of these people were realists, people painted dead bodies, while having dead bodies really right in front of them so it was more realistic, another painter painted a black sharecropper, which won the artist a lot of fame