---Module 6

Question 1

What is the significance of William McKinley’s assassination? Why was it the end of an era?

Answer 1

Thedore rosavelt comes in and promontes bully pulpit

Question 2

Most progressives were committed to

Answer 2

using the tools of scientific inquiry to root out and solve human problems.

Question 3

All of the following amendments were passed during the Progressive Era in America except

Answer 3

15th

Question 4

Most progressive reformers belonged to the

Answer 4

middle class.

Question 5

The term “muckrakers” referred to

Answer 5

crusading journalists.

Question 6

Which of the following Progressive Era Constitutional amendments is NOT matched with its correct description?

Answer 6

17th – 2 year term limits on members of the House of Representatives

Question 7

Upton Sinclair’s novel, The Jungle, was instrumental in gaining congressional legislation for the regulation of

Answer 7

the production of food and drugs.

Question 8

Theodore Roosevelt believed that

Answer 8

the president should use the “bully pulpit.”

Question 9

Theodore Roosevelt is perhaps best known for his

Answer 9

natural resource conservation.

Question 10

Of the following, who helped establish the NAACP?

Answer 10

W.E.B. DuBois and Ida B. Wells

Question 11

During the Progressive Era, reformers of city government frequently tried to

Answer 11

hire professionally trained city managers.

Question 12

What idea did roosavelt usher in

Answer 12

Usherd ins a more progressive society

Question 13

What were the main platforms for the Progressives?

Answer 13

• Imperial presidancy
• Hands off economics
• European imperialism

Question 14

Who was John Dewey

Answer 14

founder of the philosophical movement, a pioneer in functional psychology, and a leader of the progressive movement in education in the United States.

Question 15

What was Upton Sinclair’s book The Jungle about? What was its significance?

Answer 15

reveal the brutal exploitation of labor in the meatpacking industry, and thus to build support for the socialist movement, its major
impact was to lay bare the entire process of industrialized food production.

Question 16

What were the downsides to Progressivism?

Answer 16

• Prostitution
  -Elimination of minority canidits
  -Hurt buisness

Question 17

According to the lecture, what were the three reasons behind the rise of the Progressives?

Answer 17

!!

Question 18

Who was Margaret Sanger? What did she do? Explain the significance of her actions.

Answer 18

Founder of birth control movement. Leads challenge to cosmok act, Believed all african americans needed to take birth control

Question 19

Who was W.E.B Dubois? How did his views on dealing with racism and Jim Crow differ from Booker T. Washington? What organization did he help found?

Answer 19

He was a leader amongst African Americans. He believed in fighting back unlike booker T who wanted to stay silent and abide by there jim crow laws. He helped fund the NAACP. W.E.B fought aginst plessy v. Fuggrgison

Question 20

What did Theodore Roosevelt do in 1902 that changed the way American presidents dealt with labor disputes?

Answer 20

• He won noble peace prize, and made the bully pulpit

Question 21

What two labor organizations developed as a result of Roosevelt’s intervention on their behalf?

Question 22

How did Woodrow Wilson change the presidency?

Answer 22

support for the women’s suffrage amendment, and two years later women’s suffrage became a reality. After the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, women from all walks of life mobilized to vote.the United States was now more industrial than not, increasingly more urban than rural. The activism and activities of these new urban denizens also gave rise to a new American culture.

Question 23

What is the Imperial Presidency? In what ways did Wilson help implement this idea?

Answer 23

!!

Question 24

What were some of the major issues that plagued Wilson’s presidency?

Answer 24

He wasnt a republican and promoted polacies they didnt like.

Question 25

What was “Birth of a Nation?” What was the main argument of the film? What was Wilson’s opinion on the film? What did that say about Wilson, himself?

Answer 25

The film almost singlehandedly rejuvenated the Ku Klux Klan.

Question 26

Explain how the 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th Amendments were Progressive Era accomplishments.

Answer 26

Because they gave women rights, and sufferage,prohibited dirtect taxation, prohibited the “manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors.

Question 27

How were women treated prior to the Women’s suffrage movement?

Answer 27

They had very little rights when it came to voting, property etc.

Question 28

What happened at the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London

Answer 28

more than five hundred abolitionists, mostly coming from France, England, and the United States. All
met together in England, united by their common goal of ending slavery
in their time.

Question 29

Who were Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton?

Answer 29

They fought injustices of slavery. At world anti slavery convention in london

Question 30

Where was the first women’s suffrage convention organized? What was the Declaration of Sentiments? What is its significance?

Answer 30

Senneca Falls NY. Decleration captured the wide range of issues embraced by the early
women’s rights movement it spread quickly.

Question 31

Who was Elizabeth Cady Stanton? How did she contribute to the women’s suffrage movement? What organization did she and Susan B. Anthony create?

Answer 31

She led the Seneca Falls convention, New York. She was the great women’s rights and abolition activist, was one of the strongest forces in the universal suffrage movement. Her and susan advocated universal suffrage

Question 32

What was the 19th Amendment? Why were women able to get the amendment passed?

Answer 32

Women protested silently in front of
the White House for over two years
before passage of the Nineteenth
Amendment. The ammendment allowed women to vote

Question 33

Explain how the Women’s Suffrage Movement informs us about the Progressive movement as a whole.

Answer 33

Progressive reformers wanted to end political corruption, improve the lives of individuals, and increase government intervention to protect citizens. The suffrage movement was part of this wave of Progressive Era reforms