Progressive Era

Question 1

What was the suffrage movement

Answer 1

The suffrage movement helped women gain equal rights

Question 2

What happened during the suffrage movement

Answer 2

• increased educational opportunities

* attained voting rights for women

Question 3

Who was Susan b Anthony

Answer 3

(1820-1906)

Was a leader in the suffrage movement

Question 4

Who was Elizabeth Stanton

Answer 4

(1815-1902)

Worked with Susan b Anthony to help women get the right to vote

Question 5

What did the 19th amendment do?

Answer 5

Women gained the right to vote in the nineteenth amendment in 1920

Question 6

When did the homestead strike happen?

Answer 6

1892

Question 7

What was the progressive era

Answer 7

Reformers and unions helped create laws to protect workers and children

Question 8

What was the progress movement?

Answer 8

A group of people asking for a better way of life

Question 9

Negative impacts of industrialization

Answer 9

• child labor
• low wages and long goes
• unsafe working conditions

Question 10

What were labor unions formed for

Answer 10

To deal with problems in the workplace

Question 11

What is a scab

Answer 11

Someone that works when the union is on strike or not working

Question 12

What is a labor union?

Answer 12

A group of workers that get together to get better salaries and working conditions from their employers

Question 13

What did the American federation of labor do?

Answer 13

Helped get new laws made to help the workers

Question 14

What is a strike

Answer 14

The union members stop working until they get better salaries or working conditions

Question 15

Who were muckrakers

Answer 15

Muckrakers were investigative reporters who wrote about corrupt politics and dishonest ways of doing business

Question 16

What was the jungle

Answer 16

A book written by Sinclair Upton in 1906 that called out the disgusting conditions of a meat packing factory

Question 17

When were the meat inspection act and pure food act passed and by who

Answer 17

1907 by Theodore Roosevelt

Question 18

What was the temperance movement

Answer 18

Composed of groups that opposed to the selling making and consuming of alcohol

Question 19

Who was Frances Willard

Answer 19

President of the women’s Christian temperance Union, supported women’s suffrage and other progressive goals

Question 20

Who was carry nation

Answer 20

Used a hatchet to destroy salons and taverns, repeatedly jailed for her actions and died before prohibition became law

Question 21

What was the 18th amendment

Answer 21

Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transport of alcoholic beverages in 1919

Question 22

What did the national association for the advancement of colored people

Answer 22

Fought for equal rights for African Americans, was supported by Dubois and Ida wells Barnett, attempted to end political machines and clean up politics

Question 23

What was initiative

Answer 23

Citizens propose legislation and legislatures vote on it

Question 24

What was a referendum

Answer 24

Legislation is presented to the votes for a yes/ no vote

Question 25

What is a recall

Answer 25

Voters demand a special election to remove an elected official from office before his term is complete

Question 26

What is an Australian ballot

Answer 26

Votes are cast in secret

Question 27

What is the 16th amendment

Answer 27

Federal government allowed to tax citizens income directly (graduate tax) made in 1913

Question 28

What does the 16th amendment allow

Answer 28

Allows government great control of budget and replaces excise taxes

Question 29

What was the 17th amendment

Answer 29

Senators are elected directly by the people of the state, made in 1913, makes the senate more responsible to the people

Question 30

Consumer support

Answer 30

Creation of pure food and drug act to regulate food supply, meat inspection act,trust busting, and national parks

Question 31

What were the effects of industrialization

Answer 31

• child labor
• low wages, long hours
• unsafe working conditions
• rise of organized labor
• workplace reforms