Chapter 17

Question 1

Goals of Progressivism

Answer 1

1. Protect social welfare
2. Moral improvement
3. economic reform
4. More effecient

Question 2

Muckrackers

Answer 2

Journalist who exposed corruption

Question 3

Capitalism

Answer 3

an economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.

Question 4

socialism

Answer 4

means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole

Question 5

Assembly line

Answer 5

Utilized by Henry Ford at his Ford Motor Company

Question 6

Y.M.C.A.

Answer 6

Young Men’s Christian Association. Opened libraries, sponsored classes, and built swimming pools and handball courts.

Question 7

Anti Saloon League

Answer 7

Prohibition organization. Worked to pass laws to force people to change and punish those who drank.

Question 8

W.C.T.U

Answer 8

Prohibition organization.

Question 9

Florence Kelley

Answer 9

Advocate for women and children.

Question 10

Carrie Nation

Answer 10

Radical member of the temperance movement.

Question 11

Upton Sinclair

Answer 11

Author of the jungle, a critical look at the nation’s meat packing industry.

Question 12

Henry Ford

Answer 12

Founder of Ford Motor Company.

Question 13

Eugene Debs

Answer 13

Socialist.

Question 14

Child Labor

Answer 14

Hired often because they could be paid lower wages, and because of their ability to work in small spaces.

Question 15

Initiative

Answer 15

Gives citizens the power to create laws themselves by petition.

Question 16

Recall

Answer 16

Citizens can force a special election before an official’s term has expired.

Question 17

“Square Deal”

Answer 17

Name given to reform programs promoted by the Roosevelt Administration

Question 18

Susan B. Anthony

Answer 18

social reformer and feminist who played a pivotal role in the women’s suffrage movement.

Question 19

Women’s suffrage

Answer 19

The right for women to vote.

Question 20

16th Amendment

Answer 20

legalized a federal income tax system that taxes individual and corporate earnings.

Question 21

17th Amendment

Answer 21

Senators from each state are elected directly by the citizens of that state.

Question 22

18th Amendment

Answer 22

Prohibition of Alcohol (Volstead Act)

Question 23

19th Amendment

Answer 23

Voting rights for women.

Question 24

Meat Inspection Act

Answer 24

Cleanliness requirements for meat companies

Question 25

Pure Food and Drug Act

Answer 25

Banned sale of contaminated food; required “truth in labeling’

Question 26

Conservation

Answer 26

Preservation of natural resources

Question 27

Bull Moose Party

Answer 27

Progressive headed by Roosevelt.

Question 28

“New Freedom”

Answer 28

a collection of speeches Woodrow Wilson made during his presidential campaign of 1912. Promised significant reforms for greater economic opportunity for all while ensuring the tradition of limited government.

Question 29

Theodore Roosevelt

Answer 29

Progressive(Bull Moose)

Question 30

William Taft

Answer 30

Republican

Question 31

Woodrow Wilson

Answer 31

Democrat

Question 32

Domestic Policy

Answer 32

public policy which concerns laws, government programs, and administrative decisions which are directly related to all issues and activity within a nation’s borders