CH21 Flashcards
1
Q
- What was the role of muckrakers in society?
A
Muckrakers exposed problems in American society and urged the public to identify solutions
2
Q
- How did government unite progressives?
A
the feeling that the country was moving at a dangerous pace in a dangerous direction and required the efforts of everyday Americans to help put it back on track
3
Q
- What progressive innovation came out of Galveston Texas?
A
Redoing things from the ground up
4
Q
- How was the city-manage plan ran?
A
making departments
5
Q
- Who was hired by the National Child Labor Committee to educate the public
on the plight of American children?
A
Lewis Hine
6
Q
- Who became disenchanted with the failures of the labor movement, and
became a founding member and prominent leader of the Socialist Party of
America?
A
Eugene Debs
7
Q
- What was the primary reason for the rise of women’s suffrage in the western
frontier states of Colorado, Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming by 1900?
A
To attract more women to these male-dominated regions
8
Q
- Woodrow Wilson changed his stance to a position of supporting a woman’s constitutional right to vote because of the plight of whom?
A
Alice Paul
9
Q
- What constitutional amendment gave women the right to vote in 1920?
A
19th
10
Q
Segregation10. What was considered a progressive solution to violence in the South by
southern reformers?
A
Segregation
11
Q
- Who urged African Americans to work diligently for their own uplift and prosperity rather than preoccupy themselves with political and civil rights?
A
Booker T. Washington
12
Q
- The Niagara Movement laid the groundwork for the creation of what?
A
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
13
Q
- Theodore Roosevelt’s major goal after taking over for the assassinated William McKinley was what?
A
To eliminate business trusts
14
Q
- Why did Theodore Roosevelt initially question Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle?
A
Because of Sinclair’s leanings toward socialism
15
Q
- Why did Woodrow Wilson win the election of 1912?
A
A split occurred within the Republican Party
