Corruption & Progessive Movement

Question 1

Granger Cases

Answer 1

a series of cases that resulted in states being able to regulate intrastate trade but not interstate

Question 2

Sustenance wages

Answer 2

wages that ensure you can survive and go back to work the next day

Question 3

factory towns

Answer 3

towns where workers lived around the factory

Question 4

Homestead strike

Answer 4

industrial lockout and strike at a steel mill in Pennsylvania

Question 5

Haymarket Affair

Answer 5

a labor protest rally in Chicago that escalated when someone threw a bomb at the police

Question 6

Pullman Strike

Answer 6

strike by American Railway Union against Pullman factory that failed, which prompted ARU to launch a national boycott against all trains that used Pullman cars

Question 7

Plessy vs Ferguson (1896)

Answer 7

Court case that said segregation is legal as long as facilities are equal

Question 8

Progessive Movement

Answer 8

umbrella term for multiple movements in the era

Question 9

What were the four movements of the progressive movement

Answer 9

women’s suffrage, child labor & education, prohibition, unionization

Question 10

which movement was inherently nativist?

Answer 10

prohibition due to European stereotypes

Question 11

Muckrakers

Answer 11

progressive authors that exposed social problems in magazines

Question 12

Jacob Riis

Answer 12

wrote How the Other Half Lives with photographs of the living conditions in Lower Manhattan

Question 13

Upton Sinclair

Answer 13

wrote The Jungle to expose the meat industry.

Question 14

Mary “Mother” Jones

Answer 14

advocate for children and factories. wanted better working conditions for adults to help children as well as education

Question 15

Susan B. Anthony

Answer 15

the main suffragette from the mid-1800s to early 1900s

Question 16

Jane Addams

Answer 16

created the Hull House with her own money

Question 17

Ida B. Wells

Answer 17

An African-American woman who spoke out against corruption and racism in the women’s suffrage movement but was told to be quiet by White feminists.

Question 18

Robert Lafollette

Answer 18

the governor of Wisconsin who targetted industry in their state as they tried to regulate national industry prior to the Granger Cases

Question 19

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory

Answer 19

had a fire that killed 146 young women that prompted the passage of safety codes nationwide and mandated that all buildings in Manhattan to have fire escapes

Question 20

What did the prohibition movement lead to?

Answer 20

It led to underground crime and gangs profiting off of illegal alcohol.

Question 21

What two presidents won the Nobel Peace Prize in this era and for what?

Answer 21

TR won the prize for the Treaty of Portsmouth between Japan and Russia in New Hampshire.

Wilson won the prize for ending the first World War and creating the League of Nations.

Question 22

What was TR’s Square Deal?

Answer 22

TR’s square deal was his plan as president which included regulating transportation, breaking trusts, conservation, and