Progressive

Question 1

Progressivism

Answer 1

A movement of change in business, government, labor, and rights for African Americans, women, and farmers from 1890-1920.

Question 2

Muckrakers

Answer 2

Expose journalists that exposed corrupt systems in America

Question 3

Ida Tarbell

Answer 3

Exposed Standard oil and Rockefellers unfair business tactics
Wrote the book “history of standard oil company”
Contributed to the Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Was in the New York Times article “12 greatest women”
Helped working women during WW1

Question 4

Upton Sinclair

Answer 4

Exposed workers as slaves to meat industry
Intended to raise awareness for the poor workers, instead people focused on disgusting meat
Wrote the book “The Jungle” over 150k copies
Caused the passing of the Meat Inspection Act

Question 5

Jacob Riis

Answer 5

Exposed the horrible conditions of people living in tenements
Raised awareness with his book “how the other half lives”
Originally from Denmark
Social reformer and friend of Teddy Roosevelt
People are now finding controversial things in his book

Question 6

Lincoln Steffens

Answer 6

Exposed local government corruption
Wrote for the New York Evening Post
Reported the Mexican Revolution in 1910
Later became dillusioned with communism after visiting Russia

Question 7

Populist Party / National Grange

Answer 7

Agricultural Organization focus to help farmers economically and politically 1) protest unfair practices by railroad 2) start own bank 3) income tax 4) laws against trusts
Government had the responsibility to protect the common good founded by leaders of the Farmers Alliance alliance between farmers and workers platform
8 hour workday & government ownership of railroads
Democrats adopt ideas

Question 8

Booker T Washington

Answer 8

Born into slavery
Urged economical and educational advancement for African Americans
Thought the way out of poverty was hard work through trade
Believed trade school was a better way to improve AA status than traditional college
Founder of Tuskegee institute-vocational education
Wrote the book “up from slavery”
Founded the National Business League

Question 9

WEB Dubois

Answer 9

Born in Massachusetts
Didn’t encounter racism til young adult years
Believed AA needed to be uncompromising in speaking out against discrimination
Civil rights through activism and protest
Disagreed with Booker T. Washington- action NOW!!
one if the founders of the Niagara movement
Editor of the Crisis (NAACP Magazine)

Question 10

Niagara Movement

Answer 10

(1905) African American group that called for an immediate end to racial discrimination and sought political and economic equality for all blacks, urged AA to demand for their constitutional rights
Led to the NAACP (1909)

Question 11

Marcus Garvey

Answer 11

Born in Jamaica
Self-educated
Founded the Universal metro improvement association (promoted Africans going back to Africa)
Wanted a separate black nation and separate black govt.
“Back to Africa” movement— actually met with the KKK
Created the Black Star Line to transport blacks back to Africa (convicted of mail fraud and deported)

Question 12

Robert La Follette

Answer 12

Governer and senator from Wisconsin
“Fighting Bob”
Fought against big businesses and railroad monopolies

Question 13

Direct primary

Answer 13

Party members chose candidates, not political bosses/electoral college

Question 14

Referendum

Answer 14

Allowed voters to overturn an existing law

Question 15

Initiative

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Citizens can propose and pass laws by popular vote

Question 16

Recall

Answer 16

Allowed voters to remove elected officials from office

Question 17

Triangle shirtwaist dire

Answer 17

A Discarded or cigaete started a fire and over a hundred women died. Everything went wrong for them. The fire exit collapsed, the stair exit was locked, a motor oil barrel exploded Infront of the only exit, and the tallest ladder in New York was 30 feet too short. Some women jumped 8 floors down in desperation.

Question 18

Carry A. Nation

Answer 18

Hatchet against alcohol

Question 19

Susan B. Anthony

Answer 19

Fought for womens suffrage, AA rights, and more rights.

Question 20

Alice Paul

Answer 20

Wrote the equal rights amendment, fought for suffrage, did the hunger strike, and White House strike

Question 21

Jeanette Rankin

Answer 21

First woman in congress, issued 19th amendment

Question 22

Women Christian temperance movement

Answer 22

Believed alcohol made husbands unable to support their families

Question 23

Trustbuster 26th president

Answer 23

Roosevelt: Enforced anti-trust act, heavily against trusts

Question 24

How did teddy Roosevelt become president

Answer 24

McKinley, who picked him so he didn’t have any power, was assasinated
“Accidental presidency”

Question 25

“Square Deal”

Answer 25

Ended the laissez-afire theory. Be fair to ALL .AMERICANS

Question 26

3 Cs

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Corporation: attacked trusts, dept of commerce + labor, Elkins Act, Hepburn Act
Conservation: antiquities act, Gifford Pinchot, John Muir, natural resources
Consumer protection: meat inspection act, pure food and drug act, natural resources

Question 27

16th amendment

Answer 27

1913, income tax

Question 28

17th amendment

Answer 28

1913, direct election of senators by popular vote

Question 29

18th amendment

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1919, sale of alcohol = illegal (prohibition)

Question 30

19th amendment

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1920, Women can vote!

Question 31

Rebate

Answer 31

A partial refund of the cost of an item
Why?
1. Attracts costumers (buy this and a 30$ rebate!)
2. Rebates don’t have to be given on the spot like discounts do, Incase a company needed extra money at rhe time
3. Companies get praise by selling things “full price”

Question 32

Elkins act

Answer 32

1903, No more rebates for trusts

Question 33

Pure food and drug act

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1906, all ingredients must be safe and labeled on a product

Question 34

Meat inspection act

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1906, health standards set, federal inspection of meat

Question 35

Hepburn act

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1906, railroads had to set solid rates and could not provide rebates

Question 36

Antiquities Act

Answer 36

Land set aside for national parks
President can protect public land

Question 37

Payne-Aldrich Tariff

Answer 37

1909, lowered, raised, and kept rates on certain items. Included a corporate tax and provided people to study rates and provide recommendations for changes.
“Best tariff bill the republicans every passed” said president Taft

Question 38

Sherman antitrust act

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1890, named for senator John Sherman
Outlawed monopolies and/or conspiracies to make a monopoly. Benefited small authentic business and angered big monopolistic businesses

Question 39

Domestic policy

Answer 39

The way affairs are handled inside the United States.

Question 40

Roosevelts domestic policy

Answer 40

Square deal

Question 41

1902 coal strike

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JP Morgan was mistreating his railroad workers horribly and the workers went on strike. Roosevelt stepped is as an arbitrator and actually sided with the workers, cutting their hours and increasing their pay.

Question 42

Facts about Roosevelt

Answer 42

His mother and wife died on Valentine’s Day on the same year. He was very stout with a squeaky voice. He’s the only president who served over 2 terms, which he served 3. He was a hero in the Spanish American war.

Question 43

Carrie Catt

Answer 43

American women’s suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave U.S. women the right to vote in 1920. Catt served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. She also founded the national womens alliance.

Question 44

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Answer 44

Stanton was the first woman to organize the first Woman’s Rights Convention which signaled the beginning of the women’s suffrage movement

Question 45

Grand picket

Answer 45

More than 1,000 women march around White House in icy, driving rain on eve of President Wilson’s second inauguration. Women couldn’t even be arrested because the signs they were holding up contained direct quotes from President Wilson.