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Question 1

Mother’s pensions

Answer 1

Laws having most states provide pensions to widowed or abandoned mothers with small children

Question 2

Children’s bureau

Answer 2

Agency directed to develop policies to protect children, 1912(in the labor dep.)

Question 3

Women’s suffrage

Answer 3

The largest single reform movement of the progressive era; women deserved the same rights as men(voting)

Question 4

Elizabeth cady Stanton

Answer 4

Wrote in 1892 that a woman’s role as mother, wife, sister, daughter, was incidental to her later role as a part of society

Question 5

19th amendment

Answer 5

1920 guaranteed political rights to women throughout the nation & right to vote

Question 6

Equal rights amendment

Answer 6

Would provide clear, legal protection for their rights and would prohibit all discrimination on the basis of sex

Question 7

Split ticket

Answer 7

Vote for candidates of diff.parties for diff. Offices

Question 8

Commission plan

Answer 8

Replacing the mayor and council by an elected, nonpartisan commission

Question 9

Social cohesion

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Individuals are not autonomous but part of great web of social relationships, that welfare of single person depends on welfare of society as well

Question 10

Muckrakers

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U.S. Journalists that exposed corruption in politics and business

Question 11

Ida Tarbell

Answer 11

One of leading muckrakers, thought to have pioneered investigative journalism, exposed standard oil trust

Question 12

Lincoln Steffens

Answer 12

Reporter for McClure’s mag.(muckraker), wrote The Shame of the Cities, helped arouse sentiment for urban political reform

Question 13

Social gospel

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Powerful movement for social reform and economic justice, gave rise to multiple reform groups

Question 14

Salvation Army

Answer 14

Began in England, it was a good example of fusion of religion with reform, Christian social welfare org. With vaguely military structure, offer material aid and spiritual service

Question 15

National farm bureau federation

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A network of agricultural orgs. Designed to spread scientific farming methods

Question 16

New woman

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Product of change from traditional family life and more jobs for women; women lived longer, didn’t marry, and worked outside the house

Question 17

Boston marriage

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Single women lived together for long durations, some being in romantic relationships

Question 18

Tom Johnson

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Celebrated reform mayor of Cleveland who waged a long and difficult war against the powerful streetcar interests in his city

Question 19

Initiative

Answer 19

Proposed by the populists in the 1890s; allowed 5% of voters to initiate laws into state legislature

Question 20

Referendum

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Proposed by the populists in 1890s; in some states voters could pass initiatives into laws(bypass state legislature)

Question 21

Direct primary

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Take selection of candidates away from the bosses

Question 22

Recall

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Effort to limit the power of party and improve the quality of elected officials; by petition voters could force an official to stand for reelection at anytime

Question 23

Robert m. Lafollete

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Most celebrated state level reformer, from Wisconsin, elected gov in 1900 and helped turn his state into what reformers across the nation describe as a “laboratory of progressivism”

Question 24

Charles Frances Murphy

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Began to fuse techniques of boss rule with some of the concerns of social reformers in early years of the century, leader of Tammany Hall

Question 25

Triangle shirtwaist fire

Answer 25

Fire the swept through the triangle shirtwaist co. In NY 1911, killed 146 workers(mostly women), many had been trapped inside the burning building bc management had locked the emergency exits to prevent malingering

Question 26

Booker T. Washington

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Told African Americans to work for immediate self improvement rather than long range social change

Question 27

Talented tenth

Answer 27

Designated leadership class of African Americans, top educated of black class

Question 28

Niagara movement

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Black civil rights org. First met at Niagara Falls, Canadian side

Question 29

Women’s Christian temperance union

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Fought alcoholism on a state level through blue laws

Question 30

18th amendment

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Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of liquor 1918

Question 31

Eugenics

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Scientifically altering reproductive process, sterilize mentally ill and criminals

Question 32

Socialist party

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Political party that advocated socialism, led by Eugene debs

Question 33

Eugene v debs

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Led socialists, polled over 900,000 votes in election, 1912 presidential candidate

Question 34

Louis Brandeis

Answer 34

Supreme justice of Supreme Court, opposed big business

Question 35

Herbert croly

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Leader of progressive movement as an editor, political philosopher, and co founder of the New Republic mag, felt modernized gov should have a say in gov

Question 36

Clubwomen

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Women who joined clubs as a way to create an outlet for their intellectual energies so as not challenge male dominated society; wanted many imp. reforms

Question 37

W.e.b. DuBois

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Urged blacks to assert themselves and agitate for political and economic rights; founded NAACP and Niagara movement; advocated not just an edu. at trade or agricultural schools, nothing less than a full university edu.

Question 38

National association of colored women

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Took positions on issues of particular concern to blacks; wanted lynching to be a federal crime, protested segregation