progressive era Flashcards
What are progressives?
People who believed in a broad philosophy based on the Idea of Progress, which asserts that advancement in science, technology, economic development, and social organization are vital to improve the human condition.
what are Conservatives?
a political and social philosophy promotes retaining traditional social institutions in the context of the culture and civilization. Some conservatives seek to preserve things as they are, emphasizing stability and continuity, while others, called reactionaries, oppose modernism and seek a return to “the way things were”.
What are Muckrakers?
reform-minded journalists who wrote largely for all popular magazines and continued a tradition of investigative journalism reporting; muckrakers often worked to expose social ills and corporate and political corruption. Muckraking magazines–notably McClure’s of publisher S. S. McClure–took on corporate monopolies and crooked political machines while raising public awareness of chronic urban poverty, unsafe working conditions, and social issues like child labor.
Was Thomas Nast a _____
a) Conservative
b) Progressivess
c) Muckraker
c) Muckraker,
worked diligently to expose the abuses of the NYC political machine called Tammany Hall and its leader Boss Tweed through the use of political cartoons.
What are Socialists?
a social and economic system characterised by social ownership of the means of production and co-operative management of the economy, as well as a political theory and movement that aims at the establishment of such a system.
Progressive Movement
Progressivism is the term applied to a variety of responses to the economic and social problems rapid industrialization introduced to America. Progressivism began as a social movement and grew into a political movement.
What was the result of Triangle Shirtwaist Company?
The Triangle Waist Company factory occupied the eighth, ninth, and tenth floors of the 10-story Building on the northwest corner of Greene Street and Washington Place, just east of Washington Square Park, in the Greenwich Village area of New York City. Under the ownership of Max Blanck and Isaac Harris, the factory produced women’s blouses, known as “shirtwaists.” The factory normally employed about 500 workers, mostly young immigrant women, who worked nine hours a day on weekdays plus seven hours on Saturdays, earning for their 52 hours of work between $7 and $12 a week, the 2014 equivalent of $166 to $285 a week, or $3.20 to $5.50 per hour. March 25, 1911 was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in U.S. history. The fire caused the deaths of 146 garment workers – 123 women and 23 men – who died from the fire, smoke inhalation, or falling or jumping to their deaths. Most of the victims were recent Jewish and Italian immigrant women aged 16 to 23;
What were the Reasons for urbanization?
The technological boom in the 19th century contributed to the growing industrial strength of the US.Immigrants settle in cities, Migration from Country to city. Urbanization was in part the result of population increase, both due to natural causes and immigration. As well it was a consequence of economic and technological changes which a) reduced the demand for labor on farms and b) offered vastly expanded opportunities in urban industry. Further, the national railway net which allowed for goods produced in one city to be marketed across the country both facilitated urban growth and determined urban location. Finally, new technologies of construction (the steel-framed, curtain-walled skyscraper), and urban utilities (water, transit, power etc.) further facilitated urban growth. Cities became larger in extent, denser and eventually healthier, better governed and cleaner, though all that took a while.
What were someProblems left over from the Gilded Age?
The Political Machine, The Role of the Political Boss, Immigrants, Election Fraud and Graft, The Tweed Ring Scandal.
This act was the first of a series of significant consumer protection laws enacted by the Federal Government in the 20th century and led to the creation of the Food and Drug Administration. Its main purpose was to ban foreign and interstate traffic in adulterated or mislabeled food and drug products, and it directed the U.S. Bureau of Chemistry to inspect products and refer offenders to prosecutors. It required that active ingredients be placed on the label of a drug’s packaging and that drugs could not fall below purity levels established by the United States Pharmacopeia or the National Formulary. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair was an inspirational piece that kept the public’s attention on the important issue of unsanitary meat processing plan
Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906
This domestic program formed upon three basic ideas: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection.Thus, it aimed at helping middle class citizens and involved attacking plutocracy and bad trusts while at the same time protecting business from the most extreme demands of organized labor. A progressive Republican, Roosevelt believed in government action to mitigate social evils, and as president denounced “the representatives of predatory wealth” as guilty of “all forms of iniquity from the oppression of wage workers to defrauding the public.”
a) Pure food and drug act of 1906
b) Direct Election of Senators (17th amendment)
c) Teddy Roosevelt’s Square Deal
c) Teddy Roosevelt’s Square Deal
Hepburn Act
a 1906 United States federal law that gave the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) the power to set maximum railroad rates and extend its jurisdiction. This led to the discontinuation of free passes to loyal shippers. In addition, the ICC could view the railroads’ financial records, a task simplified by standardized bookkeeping systems. For any railroad that resisted, the ICC’s conditions would remain in effect until the outcome of legislation said otherwise. By the Hepburn Act, the ICC’s authority was extended to cover bridges, terminals, ferries, railroad sleeping cars, express companies and oil pipelines.
Elkins Act
the Hepburn Act, named for its sponsor, eleven-term Republican William Peters Hepburn, was a subset of one of President Theodore Roosevelt’s major goals: railroad regulation.
Election of 1912
Incumbent President William Howard Taft was renominated by the Republican Party with the support of its conservative wing. After former President Theodore Roosevelt failed to receive the Republican nomination, he called his own convention and created the Progressive Party (nicknamed the “Bull Moose Party”). It nominated Roosevelt and ran candidates for other offices in major states. Democrat Woodrow Wilson was finally nominated on the 46th ballot of a contentious convention, thanks to the support of William Jennings Bryan, the three-time Democratic presidential candidate who still had a large and loyal following in 1912. Eugene V. Debs, running for a fourth time, was the nominee of the Socialist Party of America.
The 18th amendment________
a) effectively established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring illegal the production, transport and sale of alcohol .
b) established the election of United States Senators by the people of the states.
c) allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on the United States Census
a) effectively established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring illegal the production, transport and sale of alcohol .
