Progressive Reform Era

Question 0

Spoils system

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Practice of rewarding supporters with government jobs.

Question 1

Problems

Answer 1

Government, sanitation, poverty, crime, jobs, low pays, long hours, and business did not care about workers.

Question 2

Patronage

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Control of appointment to government jobs.

Question 3

Merit

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Based on ability, not politics.

Question 4

Charles Guiteau

Answer 4

A disappointed office seeker shoots and kills President James Garfield.

Question 5

Pendleton Act

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Created the Civil Service Commission to conduct exams for federal jobs.

Question 6

Civil Service

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Includes all the federal jobs except elected offices and the military.

Question 7

Megulate

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Control

Question 8

Interstate Commerce

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Business that crossed state lines. Which leads too….

Question 9

Interstate Commerce Act

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Forbids practices such as pools and rebates. It also set up a Interstate Commerce Commission (ice) to oversee railroads.

Question 10

Reforming City Governments

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• As cities grew, they needed to expand services such as sewers, garbage, collection and roads.
• Politicians accepted money to give away these jobs.

Question 11

Political Bosses

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• Powerful politicians, gained power in many cities.

* Bosses were popular with the poor especially immigrants.

Question 12

Boss Tweed

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• During the 1860s and 1870s, Tweed cheated the city out of more than $100 million.
• Thomas Nast’s cartoons exposed Tweed.

Question 13

Wisconsin Idea

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Robert La Follete Wisconsin, introduced a series of progressive reforms.

Question 14

Primary

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Election in which voters choose their party’s candidate for the general election.

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Initiative

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Gave voters the right to put a bill before the state legislature.

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Recall

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Allowed voters to remove an elected official from office.

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Referendum

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Voters can vote directly on the bill.

Question 18

16th Amendment

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Gave congress the power to pass an income tax.

Question 19

17th Amendment

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Allowed the direct election of Senators.

Question 20

Muckraker

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Journalist who exposed corruption and other problems.

Question 21

Upton Sinclair

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Wrote a novel The Jungle, exposed details about unsanitary conditions in the meat packing industry.

Question 22

Jacob Riis

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Photographer, provided images of slum life. Exposed inadequate fire and police protection and inadequate sanitation services.

Question 23

Ida Tarbell

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Wrote articles about the Standard Oil Compant, she focused on the unfair practices of big business.

Question 24

Reform

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Changes. (FDA, pure food+drug Act, Sherman Antitrust Act, and Building Codes)

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Temperance Movement

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Campaign against alcohol consumption.
*Women opposed alcohol because it caused economic hardships and violence in the home, many saloons refused entry to women.

Question 26

WTCU

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Womens’ Christian Temperance Union

• Worked towards putting a ban on alcohol.
• Francis Willard worked to end alcohol use.

Question 27

18th Amendment

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Made it illegal to sell alcoholic drinks anywhere in the U.S.

Question 28

Roosevelt

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• Broke up:Standard Oil, American Tobacco, Northern Securities.
• Used Sherman Antitrust Act to break up trusts.
• Sided with labor during a coal miner strike.

Question 29

Trustbusters

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Someone who broke up trusts.

Question 30

Pure Food + Drug Act

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• Required businesses to put ingredients on packages. Ended false advertisement.
• Set up system of National Parks. Conseruatiot

Question 31

Square Deal

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Everyone from farmers, consumers, and workers should have the same opportunity to succeed.

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Taft

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• Feared power
• Broke up more trusts than Roosevelt.
• Ended child labor.
• Favored Graduate Income Tax-16th Amendment
• 8 hour work day.
• New safety rules for coal miners.

Question 33

Wilson

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• Broke up trusts.

* Lower tariffs (taxes)

Question 34

New Freedom

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Restore Competition

Question 35

Federal Reserve Act

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Set up a system of federal banks.

Question 36

Federal Trade Commission

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Investigate companies using unfair practices.

Question 37

President Wilson called his program the New Freedom because

Answer 37

He wanted to restore competition and break up trusts.