Progressivism Lesson 3

Question 1

Tenements

Answer 1

• Slum apartments in cities
• Example: the apartment they live in
The Jungle

Question 2

Graft

Answer 2

Political corruption to gain money

Example: taking bribes

Question 3

Reform

Answer 3

To change for the better
• Example: Passing the “meat
inspection act”

Question 4

Populism

Answer 4

More power to ordinary people
• Example: 17th amendment allows
for the direct election of senators

Question 5

Progressivism

Answer 5

Fixing society with government change
• Example: passing the prohibition of
alcohol (18th amendment)

Question 6

Americanization

Answer 6

Immigrants learning to be

“American”

Question 7

Public Education

Answer 7

Government run schools

• Example: Lancaster City Schools

Question 8

Environmental regulations

Answer 8

Laws about how environment’s
treated
• Example: It’s illegal to dump waste
from your factory into rivers

Question 9

Conservation

Answer 9

Protecting and preserving the
environment
• Example: President Teddy
Roosevelt established many
national parks and protected
Wilderness areas

Question 10

Suffrage

Answer 10

The right to vote

Question 11

Susan B. Anthony

Answer 11

Fought for women’s rights

especially voting

Question 12

19th Amendment

Answer 12

Granted women the right to vote

Question 13

Sherman Antitrust Act

Answer 13

Anti-monopoly law from 1890

Question 14

Clayton Antitrust Act

Answer 14

Stopped Monopolies merging &

helped labor unions

Question 15

Muckrakers

Answer 15

Journalists who exposed wrongdoing
• Example: Upton Sinclair (wrote The
Jungle)

Question 16

Theodore Roosevelt

Answer 16

Progressive President: fought for

conservation

Question 17

Federal Reserve System

Answer 17

Central Bank created to protect

banks from failing

Question 18

16th (Sixteenth) Amendment

Answer 18

Allowed income tax