Progressive Era

Question 1

Four goals of progressivism

Answer 1

1. Protecting social welfare
2. Promoting moral improvement
3. Creating economic reform
4. Fostering efficiency

Question 2

Soften the harsh conditions of industrialization

Answer 2

Protecting social welfare

Question 3

Examples of the goal of protecting social welfare

Answer 3

• young men’s Christian association (YMCA)
• Settlement houses
• Salvation Army
• Florence Kelly (advocate for improving lives of women and children)

Question 4

Who did the Salvation Army send?

Answer 4

Slum brigades to instruct the poor immigrants in middle class values of hard work

Question 5

Examples of the goal of promoting moral improvement

Answer 5

Temperance movement
Prohibition
WCTU
Anti - saloon league

Question 6

An organized campaign to eliminate alcohol consumption

Answer 6

Temperance movement

Question 7

A ban on the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages

Answer 7

Prohibtion

Question 8

3 groups that dominated the temperance movement

Answer 8

• prohibition party
• women’s Christian temperance Union
• anti saloon league

Question 9

Carry nation?

Answer 9

Leader in temperance movement, entered saloons praying and urging owners to stop selling

Question 10

Blamed immigrants for countries alcohol problem

Answer 10

Anti - saloon league

Question 11

Examples of the goal of creating economic reform

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• journalists played key role in alerting public
  
  • jungle book = exposed meat packing industry
  • the shame of cities = political corruption

Question 12

Journalists who uncover wrongdoings

Answer 12

Muckrakers

Question 13

Examples of the goal of fostering efficiency

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• scientific management = breaking manufacturing tasks into simpler tasks
  
  • Fredrick Winslow - “taylorism”

Question 14

Vassar

Answer 14

Accepted first women students

Question 15

Harvard, brown…

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Refused to admit women

Question 16

Targeted workplace reform, housing reform, educational improvement and food and drug laws

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Social housekeeping

Question 17

NACW (national association of colored women)

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Involved in campaigns in favor of women’s suffrage and against lynching and Jim Crow laws

Question 18

Founders of NACW

Answer 18

Harriet Tubman, Ida B wells

Question 19

The right to vote

Answer 19

Suffrage

Question 20

The most celebrated women of women’s suffrage

Answer 20

Elizabeth candy Stanton and Susan b Anthony

Question 21

Skilled speaker and writer

Answer 21

Stanton

Question 22

Strategist and organizer

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Anthony

Question 23

When did the women suffrage movement begin

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When women split over the 14th and 15th amendments which granted equal rights including the right to vote for African Americans but excluded women

Question 24

What did Anthony and Stanton form

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The national women suffrage association

Question 25

What did Anthony led a group to?

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Led a group of women to the polls in Rochester NY where she insisted on voting -arrested for civil disobedience

Question 26

Nonviolent refusal to obey a law in a effort to change it

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Civil disobedience

Question 27

3 part strategy for suffrage

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1. Target individual states 2. Test the 14th amendment 3. National constitutional amendment

Question 28

How did they target individual states

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Worked on the state level to win voting rights

Question 29

How did they test the 14th amendment

Answer 29

14th amendment = citizens have equal rights - weren't women citizens!!!?? - Supreme Court ruled that women were citizens but that doesn't mean you have the right to vote

Question 30

National constitutional amendment??

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Pushed for several years to get amendment pushed for women

Question 31

Who picked up movement when Stanton and Anthony died?

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Carrie chapman Catt and Alice Paul

Question 32

3 developments to win suffrage?

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- increased activism of local groups - use of bold new strategies to build enthusiasm - rebirth of national movement under Carrie Catt

Question 33

Catt concentrated on 5 tactics for the national movement:

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1. Organization 2. Close ties between local, state, and national workers 3. Establishing a wide base support 4. Cautious lobbying 5. Gracious, lady like behavior

Question 34

Alice Paul tried more....

Answer 34

Radical strategies

Question 35

19th amendment ?

Answer 35

Congress granted women the right to vote

Question 36

How long did it take for women to gain suffrage

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72 years

Question 37

Describe Woodrow Wilson

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-28th president - campaigned for "new freedom" -born in Virginia -

Question 38

Two antitrust laws?

Answer 38

- Clayton antitrust act | - federal trade commission act

Question 39

Clayton antitrust act

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- prohibited corporations from acquiring the stock of another company if doing so would create a monopoly

Question 40

Federal trade commission act

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- watchdog agency - can investigate possible violations - helped end unfair business practices

Question 41

16th amendment

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Legalized a federal income tax, taxing individual earnings and corporate profits Lowered tariffs of businesses

Question 42

U.S. Central banking system

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- divided nation into 12 districts and established a regional central bank in each district - issues US currency - wil sons most lasting achievements

Question 43

Wilson disappoints

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He promised to treat blacks equally and speak out against lynching Broke these promises Appointed all white southerners Opposed anti lynching legislation

Question 44

Aimed to restore economic opportunities and correct social injustices in American Life

Answer 44

Progressive movement