Progressive Era

Question 1

Industrialism-increased productivity and number of consumer goods. It also-

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Created unemployment and labor unrest
Wasteful use of natural resources
Abuses of corporate power

Question 2

The new middle class was composed of young professionals that-

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To apply principles of higher professions to society.

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

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Muckrakers attacked corruption and scandal with a sense of moral outrage. They first attacked?

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Trust and railroads

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Exposed city machines in “the shame of the cities”
Dealt with government issues
Helped lead rejection on party bosses

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Lincoln Steffens

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Ida Tarbell

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Exposed STANDARD OIL Trust abuses

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Powerful movement in American Protestantism

Main concern redeeming nations cities

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Social Gospel

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Example of religion/reform

Offered material and spiritual service to poor

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Salvation Army

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Socialist

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Mad workers that promised to destroy capitalism

Rejected because seen as to extreme

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Eugene Debs

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Led socialists

Polled 900,000 votes for president in 1912

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Industrial workers of the world

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Wobblies

Wanted single Union for all workers and abolition of the wage slave system

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City government system changed by-

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City commissions replaced mayors and city councils in some places
City managers(non political professional managers) were hired to run small cities

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Big state level reform was-

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Election reforms to bring direct democracy to voters

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Robert La Follette

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Championed state level reform

From Wisconsin

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Initiative

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Allowed 5% of voters to initiate laws in state legislatures

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In some states voters could pass initiatives into laws

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Referendum

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Voters could force official to stand re election anytime by petition

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Recall

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Direct primary

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Take selection of candidates away from the bosses

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Progressive education

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Focused on personal growth, not mastery of body of knowledge and learning through experience

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John Dewey

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Led progressive education movement

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Made university learning seem more meaningful

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Elective courses and new teaching techniques(seminars)

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Charles Eliot

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Harvard

Pioneered elective courses and new teaching techniques in universities

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Settlement houses

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Group homes in city slums to aid poor urban residents

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Most famous Hull House set up by

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Jane Addams

1889 in Chicago

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Settlement houses/Hull House sought-

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Help immigrants adapt to language and customs of their new country 
Embraced belief that middle class had responsibility to impact their own values on immigrants and teach the, how to create middle class lives

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Booker T Washington(Atlanta compromise)

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Argued for self help and accommodation on the part of blacks to white society.
Immediate not long term

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W.E.B DuBois(Niagara Movement 1905)

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Urged blacks to assert themselves for political and economic rights.
Formed NAACP to use legal means to end discrimination
Advocated more than trade education in agriculture (Full university education)

Question 27

Percent of employment of women and professions(old and new)-

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20%
Old jobs-servants, cooks, maids
New jobs-teaching, library, nursing

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Led movement to provide birth control to prevent unwanted pregnancies among poor women

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Margaret Sanger

Question 29

The 19th amendment gave

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Women the birth control franchise
Suffragist supported this
1920

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Prohibit children working more than ten hours a day

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Child labor laws

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Mother pensions

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Laws making states provide pensions to widowed or abandoned mothers with small children

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Temperance

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Against the use of alcohol

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Anti saloon league

Women’s Christian temperance Union

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Fought alcoholism on state level through blue laws
National level with 18th amendment 1918 which prohibited making selling and transportation of liquor.
Repealed by the 21st amendment 1933

Question 34

Political parties-know Tammy Hall in New York
Charles Francis Murphy
Triangle Shirtwaist Co fire in 1911

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Science of altering the reproductive processes of plants and animals to produce hybrid breeds

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Eugenics

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Forced sterilization-

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To reduce mental retardation and crime.

We instead limited immigration (good call)

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Trust busting-

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Forced industrialist to notice public opinion

Question 38

Legislation gave federal and state governments-

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Tools to protect consumers

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Income tax helped-

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Build government revenues and redistribute wealth

Question 40

Progressives successfully challenged-

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Traditional institutions and approaches to domestic problems