progressive era

Question 1

The northern securites case

Answer 1

a anti trust case in 1902 against NS for creating a monopoly of the railroads in newyork, pensilvana, and new england. The government won it’s case anf broke uo the railroad monoploy in the North east.

Question 2

The coal strike of 1902

Answer 2

A dead lock between pesivlana an west virgina coal mines with uion asking for better wages, safer working conditions and health insurance. Rosevelt woulc eventually force arbiration the workers won 5% wage incrasre, shorted hours and health equipment such as mask and doctors not hired by the company to over see this.

Question 3

The pure food and drug act

Answer 3

Pushed by rosevlet in 1902, this made truth in advertising, and made it polocy that they have to list ingrdients on both food and drugs.

Question 4

The hepburn act

Answer 4

The 1906 act gave strenght to the intersate comerce commission to set rates to get ride of rebates for long and short hauls and established a mechanism for oversight of the rail roads that were not used at this point.

Question 5

mann-elkins act

Answer 5

Under Tuffs administartion this furhter strengthned the interstae commerce commmison by alowing they to await the books of every railroad.

Question 6

The us forest service

Answer 6

In 1905 about 47 million arces of forest was set aside as protected national forest but the rivers continuted to be polluted. Gifford pnchot ran this.

Question 7

The sierra club

Answer 7

Founded by John muir, monitred what was being dumped in rivers the use of damns and the water shed.

Question 8

Presidnet taft’s trust busting

Answer 8

Proscuted standard oil, sugar trust, copper trust and won every case brought to the supreme court. he was also a prominate figure in the rail road.

Question 9

Initiative

Answer 9

The idea where citizens could initiate legisltion in state legestatures of whitch congress had to vote on.

Question 10

referendum

Answer 10

a vote by the elctrate/ the people on a particular law.

Question 11

recall

Answer 11

the abitlty of citizens to oust a elected offical by potietion.

Question 12

reform of city governments

Answer 12

the development of the city manager and city coucil system taking the power out of the hands of the major.

Question 13

The sixteenth admendment

Answer 13

A method od redistrubution of wealth, made progressive income tax leagal; the mroe you make the more you pay.

Question 14

the seventeenth amendment

Answer 14

A attempt to bring democracy, set up the direct election of cenitors by the people.

Question 15

the eighteenth amendment

Answer 15

Declared prohibition prohibiting transportant manufacturing and sell of alcohol, this was passed in 1919 and was set in 1920.

Question 16

The elcetion of 1812

Answer 16

included presidental canadates james madison abd dewitt clinton. this took palce during the war and during the first party system.

Question 17

the bull moose party

Answer 17

A progressive party named after roosevelt after lossing the republican nomination of 1912.

Question 18

the nineteenth amendment

Answer 18

This gave women the right to vote, hold office and other benifits of ciitznehsip, alice paul wanted more radical.

Question 19

clayton antitrust act

Answer 19

this allowed the government to prosecute any monopoly that held a monopoly over a segment of the making and distrubution of a product.

Question 20

federal reserve act

Answer 20

this was a attempt to stablize the economy by controlling state and national banks, set up 12 federal reserve banks set reserve on loans was a bankers bank and almost a national bank.

Question 21

the federal trade commission act

Answer 21

this set up the federal trade commison which had to authortiy to account of major corportaitons to check for wrong doing.

Question 22

the adamson act

Answer 22

set up 8 hour work day as a mandate for all railroads with governement contracts.

Question 23

Ida Tarbell

Answer 23

This was a landmark word of exposay journalism that became knows as “muckraking”. She exposed rockefellers unfair business methods outraged the public and led the government to presecute the company for violations of the sherman anti trust.

Question 24

Lincoln steffens

Answer 24

his work was closer to a documented sociological case study than to a sensational journalistic expose. He exposed corrupt businessmen whose bribes and greed fueld the entire system of corruption. He also exposed government and helped build support for reform.

Question 25

Uptin sinclair

Answer 25

he pioneered the kind of journalism known as “muckraking.” His work was best-known fro exposing the appalling and unsanitary conditons in the meat-packing industry.

Question 26

what are the main impulses of the progressive movment?

Answer 26

This was a attempt to develop a moral will, the intellectual insight, and political and administrative agencies to remedy the accumualated evil and negligences of a period of industrial growth.

Question 27

Who where the progressives?

Answer 27

to be a progessive you had to be prepared to go forward with the solution of those new questions which social economic and political development have brought to the forefront of tha nation’s interest.

Question 28

entracne into ww1

Answer 28

the us had the goal to stay neutral. Then in 1916 germany resticted uboat war and then in 1916 unrestricted it. The zuinnerman telegram then brought fear to the us because it threatned to bring war to the american soil. there then was the propaganda compaign that

Question 29

The great migration

Answer 29

The great migration was a move by black southerners to escape the viloence of jim crowism. They found housing like most immigrants in a specific section of the city. 4 million African Americanc move to new york, washington dc, detriot, philidephia, chigago, los anglos and okland. out of this migratioh would come the halm renagnous/ the growth of black artist, writers, poets, and journalist wiht the help of lawers ad small businessed. This gave african americans opprotunity and jobs that paid well. This would evetually lead to the civil rights movment.

Question 30

the red scare

Answer 30

The red scare was a form of public hysteria provoked by fear of the rise support and reel of idealogies especially communism. This was caused by a sudden rise of communisma and the russian revloution witch both evoked fear. events include deportations, arrest and raids.