Progressive Era

Question 1

19th Amendment

Answer 1

• ratified on August 18, 1920
• drafted by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• prohibits any US citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex
• Constitution allows the states to determine the qualifications for voting, and until the 1910’s most states disenfranchised women
• the amendment was the culmination of the women’s suffrage movement in the US

Question 2

National American Women Suffrage Association

Answer 2

group formed by leading suffragists in the late 2800s to organize the women’s suffrage movement
- led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Question 3

Ellis Island

Answer 3

• immigrant receiving station opening in 1892
• immigrants were given medical examination and only allowed into US if they were healthy

Question 4

Jane Addams

Answer 4

• founder of the Hull House
• provided English lessons for immigrants, daycares, and child care classes

Question 5

Women’s Christian Temperance Union

Answer 5

organization dedicated to the idea of the 18th Amendment (banned the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcohol)

Question 6

Coney Island

Answer 6

• NY Island
• contained amusement parks and served as a center of entertainment

Question 7

Frederick Winslow Taylor

Answer 7

discovered the scientific management system, which was a way of organizing people in the most efficient manner

Question 8

Muller v. Oregon

Answer 8

• 1908 SCOTUS decision
• upheld Oregon state restrictions on the working hours of women as justified by the special state interest in protecting women’s health

Question 9

Socialist Party

Answer 9

• political party in the US which supports socialism
• working people own and control the means of production and distribution through democratically-controlled public agencies, cooperatives, or other collective groups

Question 10

Industrial Workers of the World

Answer 10

• founded in 1905
• radical union, also known as the Wobblies
• aimed to unite the US working class into one union to promote labor’s interests
• worked to organize unskilled and foreign-born laborers, advocated social revolution, and led to several major strikes
• stressed solidarity

Question 11

Ludlow Massacre

Answer 11

• violent deaths of 20 people (11 children) during an attack by the Colorado National Guard on a tent colony
• tent colony was made up of 1,200 striking coal miners and their families at Ludlow, Colorado
• April 20, 1914

Question 12

Theodore Roosevelt

Answer 12

• 1858-1919
• 26th President
• Increased size of US Navy - “Great White Fleet”
• added Roosevelt Corollary to Monroe Doctrine
• “Big Stick” policy
• received Nobel Peace Prize for mediation of end of Russo-Japanese war
• later arbitrated split of Morocco between Germany and France

Question 13

Sherman Antitrust Act

Answer 13

• first federal action against monopolies
• signed into law by Harrison and was extensively used by Theodore Roosevelt for trust-busting
• initially misused against labor unions

Question 14

Progressive Party

Answer 14

• AKA “Bull Moose Party”
• political party formed by Theodore Roosevelt to advance progressive ideas and unseat President William Howard Taft in the election of 1912
• after Taft won the Republican Party’s nomination, Roosevelt ran on the Progressive party ticket