CHAPTER 20 TEST Flashcards
what factors led to civil-service reform?
- people disliked the spoils system
- taking bribes
- political machines
how did progressive reforms improve society?
- improved the urban poor
- sanitation
- improved education
- improved medical education
how did progressives work to change voting procedures?
- seventeenth amendment, allowed americans to vote for u.s. senators directly
- take action against corrupt politicians
- allowed procedures such as initiatives and referendums
how did reformers try to improve child labor unions?
- reporters published shocking accounts of child labor
- influenced legislators
how did reforms change the workplace?
- workplace safety
- workers’ compensation laws
- limited working hours
how did reformers draw attention to the temperance and women’s suffrage movements?
- new clubs for women formed
- formed parades
- public demonstrations
what was the purpose of the NAACP?
-wanted economic and educational equality for African Americans
what reforms did roosevelt support?
- conservation
- socialism
why did wilson win the election of 1912?
-the split between roosevelt and taft divided the republican vote
what did the WCTU stand for?
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
what did NAWSA stand for?
National American Woman Suffrage Union
what does NWP stand for?
National Woman’s Party
what does NAACP stand for?
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
