Final - Progressive Era

Question 1

Seneca Falls

Answer 1

first women’s right convention 1848

Question 2

16th amendment

Answer 2

allows the government to collect an income tax from all american taxes to pay for services.

Question 3

17th amendment

Answer 3

senate is composed of two senators from each state.

Question 4

18th amendment

Answer 4

prohibition of alcoholic drinks

Question 5

19th amendment

Answer 5

gave women the right to vote in 1920

Question 6

Max Weber or Karl Marx

Answer 6

philosophy, modern sociology, wrote The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism 1905

Question 7

Frederick Winslow Taylor

Answer 7

US inventor, modern mass production techniques
○ Technique would be used in factories to make more goods
Efficiency movement

Question 8

Triangle Shirtwaist fire

Answer 8

March 25, 1911, NYC factory fire that killed 145 people

○ Poor working conditions and lack of care to workers from employers

Question 9

How the other half lives

Answer 9

studies of NYC tenements in the 1880’s

○ More of NYC poverty, this time from where people live

Question 10

W.E.B Dubois

Answer 10

African American sociologist wrote Souls of Black folk.

Question 11

Louis Brandeis

Answer 11

first jewish supreme court justice

Question 12

Eugene Debs

Answer 12

organized american railway union

Question 13

J.P. Morgan

Answer 13

financed railroads, organize US steel, GE, also helped stabilize american financial markets during crisis.

Question 14

Federal Reserve

Answer 14

1913 established by congress for a safer and more stable monetary system for the US

Question 15

Panama Canal

Answer 15

opened in 1914, created to connect the atlantic and pacific oceans

Attempts to build a passageway since the 1500s for trade also helps connects both oceans