Progressive Vocab

Question 1

Progressive

Answer 1

A group of reformers who worked to improve social and political problems in the late 1800s.

Question 2

The progressive movement

Answer 2

A period of time when American citizens brought light to the problems in society (ex. factory conditions and demanded gov’t change through public outrage.)

Question 3

18th Amendment

Answer 3

(1919) a constitutional amendment that outlawed the production and sale of alcoholic beverages in the United States, repealed in 1933.

Question 4

19th amendment

Answer 4

(1920) a constitutional amendment that gave women the right to vote.

Question 5

21st amendment

Answer 5

(1933) an amendment to the constitution that ended Prohibition.

Question 6

Pure Food and Drug Act

Answer 6

(1906) a law that set regulatory standards for industries involved in preparing food.

Question 7

Women’s Suffrage Movement

Answer 7

led by various women, when women demanded the right to vote which was granted with the 19th Amendment.

Question 8

A progressive Must Posses the following 3 things-

Answer 8

1- Want to make a change and believe in your mind you can
2- Have a platform- have a way to get your ideas to the masses (author, actor, photographer, newspaper or news source connections)
3- Have a big Heart- you are dedication your efforts to helping others

Question 9

Jacob Riis

Answer 9

Talent-journalist, photographer, American newspaper reporter.

Exposed-the slum conditions in New York City.

Question 10

Upton Sinclair

Answer 10

Talent- American novelist, author, writer, newspaper reporter

Exposed- The unsanitary conditions in the meat-packing industry.

Question 11

Ida Tarbell

Answer 11

Talent- journalist, and author

Exposed- corrupt practices used by the Standard Oil Company to make it a monopoly.

Question 12

Theodore Roosevelt (keep to workplace issues and big business NOT international affairs)

Answer 12

Talent- author, statesman, soldier, and naturalist

Exposed- monopolies for controlling prices and preventing competition ,, poor working conditions, and trust-busting.

Question 13

Jane Addams

Answer 13

Talent- pioneer social worker.

Exposed- poor people/ immigrants that lived in the slums

Question 14

Booker T. Washington

Answer 14

Talent- educator

Exposed or Helped- discrimination, and segregation. He exposed the government’s harsh ways of thinking about education and how it shaped the lives of people like African Americans.

Question 15

Lincoln Steffens

Answer 15

Talent- journalist, philosopher

Exposed-corruption of politicians by businessmen seeking special privileges.

Question 16

Lewis Hine

Answer 16

Talent-photographer, sociologist

Exposed- child labor

Question 17

W.E.B. DuBois

Answer 17

Talent- sociologist, author, editor, and historian.

Exposed or Helped-
Discrimination,segregation. Helped the social issues in the black communities. He helped the advancement of colored people.