Progressive Politics Slides #22

Question 1

What was the populist movement?

Answer 1

A political and social movement (also known as the people’s party) that advocated for the interests of farmers, laborers, and common people against the economic and political power of big business, banks, and railroads.

Question 2

Political machines were a form of ___________ power that
______________ democratic politics in many urban areas.

Answer 2

private; corrupted

Question 3

Farmers felt _____________ against railroads and banks.

Answer 3

powerless

Question 4

Workers felt ______________ by large, impersonal corporations.

Answer 4

exploited

Question 5

Cities were often __________ and ____________ for the poor.

Answer 5

unhealthy; dangerous

Question 6

Overproduction drove down prices, railroads held monopolistic power, and banks controlled credit (aka it was hard to get a loan) are all problems that hurt who?

Answer 6

Farmers

Question 7

What was the populist solution for the overproduction that drove down farm prices?

Answer 7

Appeal directly to farmers for political support

Question 8

What was the populist solution to the monopolistic railroad problem?

Answer 8

Give the government control over the railroad

Question 9

What was the populist solution to the bank issue farmers were facing?

Answer 9

Expand credit available by expanding the money supply

Question 10

What is a political movement that casts the
struggle for power as virtuous common
people who are being exploited by corrupt
elite?

Answer 10

Populism

Question 11

Populism draws on ideas from Jefferson or Hamilton?

Answer 11

Jefferson!

Question 12

What is meritocracy and who was a fan of it?

Answer 12

Meritocracy is a system where people are rewarded or given opportunities based on their abilities, talents, or achievements, rather than factors like wealth, family background, or social status; Hamilton

Question 13

Populism rejected meritocracy, T or F?

Answer 13

T

Question 14

What are the two sources of private power?

Answer 14

Private economic power and private political power

Question 15

An example of private economic power is….

Answer 15

Banks

Question 16

An example of private political power is…..

Answer 16

Political machines

Question 17

Provide three examples of corrupt exchanges

Answer 17

Gambling, prostitution, and drugs

Question 18

Explain political machines.

Answer 18

Machine politicians steered corrupt
contracts to construction companies and
other service providers connected to the
machine Ex. When I become mayor, I’ll give you the contract to do all of the new city streets.
Trusts and other corporations paid bribes to the machine, who gave them special
privileges or helped them avoid regulation. Ex. Our whole factory of workers will vote for you if you make us the state’s main source of uniforms

Question 19

Who’s Boss Tweed?

Answer 19

A powerful and corrupt politician that led the Tammany Hall political machine

Question 20

What was the progressive solution to the issue of large private economic power?

Answer 20

Use government power to constrain private power (Break up monopolies
New government institutions to regulate private industries
Graduated income tax
Bank regulation (Federal Reserve System)

Question 21

What was the significance of the Seneca Falls Convention?

Answer 21

Women gathered together in 1848 to discuss that all men and women are equal, thus they all have rights.

Question 22

no right to vote, submit to the law without having a voice which means she has no representation are all topics/ main points from what?

Answer 22

The Seneca Falls Convention

Question 23

What was the primary aim of the National Woman Suffrage Association?

Answer 23

to get an amendment to the constitution that allowed women to vote (they wanted rights for women on a national level)

Question 24

What was the primary aim of the American Woman Suffrage Association?

Answer 24

include women’s suffrage in state constitutions (they wanted women’s suffrage on a state level)

Question 25

Who said, “Is it a crime for a citizen of the United States to vote?”

Answer 25

Susan B. Anthony (she was arrested for attempting to vote)

Question 26

Who said, “Our democratic-republican
government is based on the idea of the
natural right of every individual
member thereof to a voice and a vote
in making and executing the laws?”

Answer 26

Susan B. Anthony

Question 27

Who said, “Surely the right of the whole people
to vote is … clearly implied [in the
Declaration?”

Answer 27

Susan B. Anthony

Question 28

Who said, “It was we, the people, not we, the
white male citizens, nor yet we, the
male citizens; but we, the whole
people, who formed this Union.
“And we formed it, not to give the
blessings or liberty, but to secure them;
not to the half of ourselves and the
half of our posterity, but to the whole
people, women as well as men?”

Answer 28

Susan B. Anthony

Question 29

Virginia Minor was not permitted to register to vote in St. Louis, Missouri. She took her case to court and it went all the way to the supreme court who ruled that the 14th amendment to the constitution does not specifically give women the right to vote, so it is the state’s choice to allow women to vote or not. What case was this?

Answer 29

Minor V Happersett (1875)

Question 30

Who wrote “The Woman Question”?

Answer 30

Orestes Brownson

Question 30

Who said, “Women are not needed as men; they are needed as
women, to do, not what men can do as well as they, but
what men cannot do?”

Answer 30

Orestes Brownson

Question 30

1. Female suffrage will not improve political or social life. Women in politics will neglect their children, and create political division in the home.
2. Female suffrage will destroy the family.

Answer 30

Main points of “The Woman Question”

Question 31

Who ran against their husband for a seat in the first Utah legislature and won (being the first female state senator)?

Answer 31

Martha Hughes Cannon

Question 32

Who said, “She is the better man of the two?”

Answer 32

The Salt Lake Herald when Martha Hughes Cannon was elected Senator

Question 33

Who said, “Mothers will repress their maternal instincts” if involved in politics?

Answer 33

Orestes Brownson

Question 34

Men are so fond of fighting
Men are careless and dirty
Men do not really know how tender and delicate children are and might
put them to work in factories
Men exhibit a savage instinct of punishment and revenge
These main points are a part of what reading?

Answer 34

“If Men were Seeking the Franchise” by Jane Addams

Question 35

Why did Jane Addams write “If Men were Seeking the Franchise”?

Answer 35

To reverse the political roles and put men in the position of seeking suffrage as if they didn’t have the right to vote and women did and she expressed why women weren’t being given the right to vote

Question 36

The NWSA and the AWSA later merged to become what?

Answer 36

The NAWSA (National American Woman Suffrage Association)

Question 37

Businesses were reformed through Interstate Commerce Commission, the Regulation of the Railroad, Food & Drug Administration, Workman’s Compensation, Unemployment Insurance, Child labor laws/ Compulsory schooling, and antitrust laws. T or F?

Answer 37

T

Question 38

What did the 16th amendment do?

Answer 38

Made progressive income tax a thing

Question 39

One of the economic reforms of the early 1900’s was the FRS which stands for?

Answer 39

Federal Reserve System

Question 40

The 17th amendment did what?

Answer 40

Direct Election of Senators

Question 41

The 17th, 18th, and 19th amendments were ______________ reforms.

Answer 41

political

Question 42

The 18th amendment did what?

Answer 42

Prohibited alcohol

Question 43

The 19th amendment did what?

Answer 43

Gave women the right to vote and a few other rights they didn’t have previously

Question 44

___________ and _____________ are political responses to the challenges
posed by inequality and private power.

Answer 44

Populism; Progressivism