Progessive Age and Gilded Age Test

Question 1

Progressivism (What is it?)

Answer 1

Progressive addressed the rapid ecominoc and social changes of the Gilded Age

Included poverty, child labor, factory safety, Women’s rights, Temperance and political Corruption

Question 2

Settlement House

Answer 2

were organizations that provided support services to the urban poor and European immigrants, often including education, healthcare, childcare, and employment resources.

-americanization programs to help recent immigrants learn english and adopt american dress and diet

Question 3

Settlement House

Answer 3

were organizations that provided support services to the urban poor and European immigrants, often including education, healthcare, childcare, and employment resources.

-americanization programs to help recent immigrants learn English and adopt american dress and diet

Question 4

18th Amendment

Answer 4

Women Groups
-WCTU and Anti-Saloon League pushed

-The 18th amendment was ratified in 1919 and banned the production and sale of alcohol

Question 5

Why did women push for the 18th Amendment

Answer 5

-the serious drinking problem in the United States
-women whose husbands were drunkards

Question 6

19th Amendment

Answer 6

-The national American Woman Suffrage Association was key in passing the 19th Amendment in 1920

-The 19th amendment granted women the right to vote

Question 7

Muckrakers

Answer 7

Muckraking Journalism attention to social problems such as urban poverty Corruption and Big Business practices

Question 8

Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle”

Answer 8

-This led to federal Invesgation of the meatpacking industry inspections and improved sanitation

Question 9

Pure Food and Drug Act

Answer 9

-Sam H. ADms exposed the dangers of patent medicines, which led to the pure food and drug act requiring ingredients listing and banning adulterated drugs

Question 10

Work Place

Answer 10

-New industrial advances led to sped production but also led to
-Long hours, Low wages, Dangerous Working conditions
-Labor unrest and strikes
-Union membership rose

Question 11

NAACP

Answer 11

Formed in 1909 by Du Bois, Wells and others

To achieve equity, political rights, and social inclusion by advancing policies and practices that expand human and civil rights, eliminate discrimination, and accelerate the well-being, education, and economic security of Black people and all persons of color.

Question 12

Push Factors

Answer 12

Push for immigration are those that compel people to leave their homes

Question 13

Pull Factors

Answer 13

Pull factors are those that attract them to a new place

Question 14

Angel Island

Answer 14

Chinses and other Asian immigrants crossing the Pacific were processed at Angel Island in San Franciso Bay.
-Many Chinese were turned away
-Detained at Angel island for weeks or months in poor condition

Question 15

Nativists

Answer 15

-Immigrants often dealt with Nativism and hostility from native-born white Americans

-Nativism The hatred and fear of immigrants and immigration

Question 16

Chinese Exclusion Act

Answer 16

-Prohibiting immigration by Chinses labers
-Limited their rights in the US

Question 17

Men who Made America

Answer 17

John D. Rockefeller
Andrew Carneige
Cornelius Vanderbuild
JP Morgan

Question 18

John D. Rockefeller

Answer 18

-Founder of the standard oil company
-Eliminated all his competition in the railroad company and took over

Question 19

Andrew Carneige

Answer 19

-Co-founded his first steel company/started a steel empire
-Treated his workers very low wages

Question 20

Andrew Carneige

Answer 20

-Co-founded his first steel company/started a steel empire
-Treated his workers very low wages

Question 21

Cornelius Vanderbuild

Answer 21

-Controlled shipping and railroads
-Monoplozed railways

Question 22

JP Morgan

Answer 22

-He manipluated the nations financial system for his own gain

Question 23

temperance movement

Answer 23

, movement dedicated to promoting moderation and, more often, complete abstinence in the use of intoxicating liquor (see alcohol consumption).

Question 24

Poor Taxes

Answer 24

Poll taxes were a way to keep African Americans and poor white people from voting

Question 25

Plessy v. Ferguson

Answer 25

“separate but equal”
-racially segregated but ostensibly ensuring equal opportunities to all races.

Question 26

Meat Inspection Act

Answer 26

prohibited the sale of adulterated or misbranded livestock and derived products as food and ensured sanitary slaughtering and processing of livestock.

Question 27

Ida Tarbell

Answer 27

-History of standards of revealed Rockefeller’s ruthless business practices

Question 28

NAWSA

Answer 28

National American Woman Suffrage Association
securing women the right to vote,

Question 29

Laissez- faire

Answer 29

translates to “leave alone”
is that the less the government is involved in the economy, the better off business will be, and by extension, society as a whole.

Question 30

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (Describe)

Answer 30

Trapped inside because the owners had locked the fire escape exit doors, workers jumped to their deaths. In a half an hour, the fire was over, and 146 of the 500 workers—mostly young women—were dead. Many of us have read about the tragic Triangle fire in school textbooks.

Question 31

Causes of the Progressive Era

Answer 31

Immigration to the United States increased at rapid rates at the end of the 19th century, as did the movement of people to urban centers.
-Industrial Revolution, Child Labor, Racial Inequality, Unsafe food, and Working Conditions.