Progressive Test

Question 1

Urbanization

Answer 1

Some urban workers moved to houses made specially for them. Some lived in suburbs and some in family units.

Question 2

Progressive era

Answer 2

from 1890 to 1920, many groups were working to bring about progress in society

Question 3

Women’s movement

Answer 3

• Fought for a minimum wage
• 8 hour work day
• made temperance movement ( which was no drinking alcohol because it caused problems with men) this movement led to the 18th amendment

Question 4

18 amendment

Answer 4

Prohibits making or selling or importing liquor

Question 5

Ida Tarbell

Answer 5

Revealed the abuses commuted by the huge standard oil trust

Question 6

Uptown Sinclair

Answer 6

Revealed the abuses of meat industry

Question 7

“Boss” tweed-

Answer 7

William Marcy tweed, controlled Tammany hall, the political club that ran New York City’s Democratic Party.

Question 8

Florence Kelley

Answer 8

Was in national consumers league(NCL), she urged not to buy food without labels and made laws to inspect meat plants and safer working conditions

Question 9

immigration

Answer 9

New immigrants came from the southern and Eastern Europe during 1870s until WWI came from Ireland, Germany, Italy Greece, Poland, Hungary, Russia. Often unskilled, poor, Catholic or Jewish

Question 10

Alice Paul

Answer 10

Was in the national women’s party (NWP) she used public protest marches. Was the first to march with picket sings outside of the White House

Question 11

Jacob Riis

Answer 11

A reformer working to improve the lives of the urban poor. He experienced the dreadful conditions in which many Americans lived. He was a police reporter and wrote books about what he had seen and exposed them to the public hoping to get support. He also passed the first meaningful laws to improve tenements

Question 12

Push factors

Answer 12

Things that force / “push” people out of a place or Land. (Droughts, political revolutions, religious persecutions, economic struggles).

Question 13

Pull factors

Answer 13

Things that attract people to a place or land (plentiful land, employment, religious freedom)

Question 14

Ellis island

Answer 14

Built in 1892 as THe first immigration center. Closed in 1940 which is now a museum. The goal was to “screen” immigrants coming from Europe. It was in New York City.

Question 15

Angel island

Answer 15

Opened in 1910, most Chinese and Asians came through here, made it hard for Chinese immigrants to come to the U.S

Question 16

Assimilate

Answer 16

To fit in

Question 17

Nativism

Answer 17

Believe that native born white Americans were superior to immigrants

Question 18

Chinese exclusion act

Answer 18

1882 prohibited immigration by Chinese laborers, limited civil rights of immigrants in America and forbade naturalization of Chinese residents

Question 19

Immigrants changed America by?

Answer 19

Fueled industrial growth, made their traditions a part of American culture. they helped U.S become a world power. Chinese Irish and Mexican worked in coal mines, steel and textile mills

Question 20

Triangle shirtwaist factory fire

Answer 20

When workers got locked inside their jobs and the building lit up on fire many jumped out. Cause by somebody’s cigarette. This led to children not working anymore and bosses couldn’t lock doors anymore

Question 21

Progressives

Answer 21

Middle class educated people, they worked for solving problems caused by industry and laissez faire, they focused on workers rights, conditions for popes and immigrants and they wanted to end segregation and Jim Crow laws

Question 22

Populists vs progressives

Answer 22

Populists: poor uneducated, too radical, failed.
Progressives: middle class and educated, stayed political mainstream, succeeded.

Question 23

Areas of reform

Answer 23

Social justice, Political democracy, economic equality, conservation

Question 24

Muckrakers

Answer 24

Journalists and photographers who exposed the abuses of wealth and power

Question 25

Galveston TX

Answer 25

Hurricane that’s killed more than 8000 people. Left entire city in ruins, as a result the city put in place a new mayor and. Five person commission to run the town.

Question 26

17th amendment

Answer 26

Provided direct election of senators

Question 27

16th amendment

Answer 27

Gave congress the power to levy(fee) an income tax

Question 28

19th amendment

Answer 28

The right for women to vote

Question 29

Referendum

Answer 29

Process by which citizens vote on a law passed by their legislature

Question 30

Initiative

Answer 30

Process by which citizens propane new laws by gathering signatures on a petition

Question 31

Recall

Answer 31

Process by which voters remove a public official from office before the next election