Chapter 28

Question 0

What did the progressives want?

Answer 0

To improve humanity, to use the government to combat monopolies, instill order and instability,
social Gospel movement: it was their Christian duty to be concerned about the poor and immigrants.
Muckrakers: Jacob Riis, upton sinclaiir, Ida Tarbell, frank Norris, Lincoln Steffens

Question 1

Who are the progressives?

Answer 1

Men, women, middle-class, Protestants

Question 2

He wrote how the other half lives, he wrote to inform about the children in the streets

Answer 2

Jacob Riis

Question 3

Wrote the jungle; it was about meatpacking

Answer 3

Upton sinclaiir

Question 4

Wrote history of the standard oil company

Answer 4

Ida Tarbell

Question 5

Wrote the I octopus

Answer 5

Frank Norris

Question 6

Wrote the

Shame of the cities (unmasked corrupt alliance between big businesses and municipal government.

Answer 6

Lincoln Steffens

Question 7

• investigated the governments role in urban problems.
• tried to make a model government
• The city manager system; city manager’s in charge of municipal affair.
• public ownership of utilities
• minimum wage and maximum working hours were established for city employees.
• some municipalities funded recreational and day care facility.

Answer 7

The national municipal league

Question 8

State reforms of progressives

Answer 8

• banned child labor
• minimum wage and Max hours to protect women
• worker’s Compensation
• pensions for widows and children when the husband or father was killed on the job
• businesses regulated like railroads insurance companies
• building codes and state inspections (triangle shirtwaist company fire.
• corrupt practices act: made political leaders more liable when wrongdoings happen

Question 9

• Was elected governor of Wisconsin in 1901
• very militant, progressive Republican leader
• Took power from the trusts and gave it back to the people + scheme for regulating public utilities.

Answer 9

Robert m la follete (fighting bob)

Question 10

• was elected California governor in 1910
• republican
• broke dominant control of the Southern Pacific Railroad on California politics.

Answer 10

Hiram w. Johnson

Question 11

Reformist republican governor of New York gained international fame as an investigator malpractices by gas and insurance companies and by the cool trust.

Answer 11

Charles Evan Hughes

Question 12

Progressive women organizations

Answer 12

Women’s trade Union league, national consumers league, children’s Bureau 1912, women’s bureau 1920

Question 13

Resident of Jane Addams hull house, became the state of Illinois first chief factory inspector, and one of the nations leading advocates for improved factory conditions. 1899 she took control of national consumers league (mobilized consumers to pressure for laws safeguarding women children in the workplace)

Answer 13

Florence Kelley

Question 14

What case??
Louis Steve brandeís persuaded the Supreme Court to except the constitutionality of laws protecting women workers (women having weaker bodies).
-now it seems discriminatory, close to many male jobs to women
-employers to control over the workplace

Answer 14

Muller v Oregon 1908

Question 15

The American Growth burst Daytimers from female activism focused more or lasts on the protecting women and children then on granting benefits to everyone?

Answer 15

More

Question 16

What Supreme Court case?
The court denied a New York law establishing a 10 hour day for bakers but in 1917 the court upheld a 10 hour-long factory workers. The farms on factories were not enforced. And 1911 triangle shirt waist company in New York–>fire–>146 women died. –> public outcry –> massive strike by women–> New York legislature past stronger laws regulating the hours and conditions of sweatshop toil.

Answer 16

Lochner v New York 1905

Question 17

Anti-liquor campaigners received support from militant organizations such as women’s Christian temperance union with founder__ who fell to her knees in prayer on the saloon floor, mobilize daily 1 million women, WCTU Largest organization of women in the world

Answer 17

Francis e Willard

Question 18

Laws that controlled or restricted or abolished alcohol

Answer 18

Dry laws

Question 19

Theater Roosevelt started demanding a square deal for capital, labor, and the public at large. Embraced the three C’s.

Answer 19

• Control the corporation
• consumer protection
• conservation of natural resources

Question 20

The __. Was created in 1887 to restrain railroads but it was inadequate. Congress passed an effective railroad legislature, the__: aimed at rebate evil. Heavy fines to be placed on both the railroad that gave rebates, and On shippers that accepted them.
-more effective was the __ that restricted free passes.

Answer 20

Interstate Commerce Commision
Elkins act of 1903
Hepburn act of 1906

Question 21

Brett Burk described the detail the filth, disease of Chicago’s damp, ill ventilated slaughterhouses. Roosevelt appointing a commission to investigate and found the novel to be true.

Answer 21

Upton sinclairs, the jungle, 1906

Question 22

Required meat shipped over state lines to be federally inspected

Answer 22

Meat inspection act of 1906

Question 23

Designed to prevent adulteration and mislabeling of foods and pharmaceuticals.

Answer 23

Pure food and drug act of 1906