Social Studies 11.6 test Flashcards
Why did progressives seek changes?
To make improvements caused by rapid industrialization and urbanization
Which groups were involved with the movement?
Democrats, AA’s, whites, women, men, wealthy/middle/working class, Republicans
What did AA’s do when they weren’t allowed in clubs/groups?
Created their own organizations and movements to achieve change
How were immigrants treated in movement?
targeted for reforms and resented reform efforts many times because of it
What role did women play in movement?
middle-class women formed clubs, volunteered, were educated, worked to bring change, raised money for things, end of child labor
Women’s Trade Union League-pay+working conditions 4 women
(Social)
What were muckrakers?
journalists who showed the corruption in government and big business
How did muckrakers use their jobs to shine a light on negative aspects of society?
wrote magazine articles, took pictures, wrote, wrote novels
Jacob Riis- showed tenements/poverty, people demanded improvements in cities/factories
Ida Tarbell-accused Standard Oil of being a monopoly, worked for AA protections, wanted laws to oversee business practices
Upton Sinclair-wrote stories about horrible life of meatpacking, huge response, President Teddy made changes in meatpacking industry
(Social)
Social reforms?
Change in society, women, temperance movement, abolition,
What did progressive politics seek to do?
end corruption at state/local/national levels, decrease influence of political machines, make regulations in how politicians made money, direct election of senators, support direct democracy, referendum, initiative and recall, change in voting practices (secret ballots)
Examples of settlement houses?
Hull house
What was the temperance movement?
wanted people to stop/drink less alcahol thought it caused crime, poverty, and violence within families, some wanted prohibition laws, mostly middle-class women
What is prohibition?
making selling of alcoholic beverages illegal
What group wanted to end prohibition? What did they do?
Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
What is women’s suffrage?
The right to vote for women
What was some groups that wanted women’s suffrage?
WTCU-women to support prohibition in voting against it
National Women Suffrage Association-wanted to win the vote through a constitutional amendment
American Woman Suffrage Association-gain vote state by state
National American Women’s Suffrage Association (NAWSA)-combined of last 2
Why did progressives think they deserved the right to vote?
payed taxes + followed laws, educated, to help end political corruption, help other reforms, showed commitment w/ social change
What was the 19th Amendment?
All women could vote
What was the effects of the 19th Amendment?
Women politicians, women could take public role in society and government
What is a trust and it’s reforms?
A number of companies united into one system, and controlled by a single trustee
Reforms: railroad, labor, food, banking
Labor reforms
fights between labor unions and corporate bosses, government supported bosses.
Teddy believed that the government should treat labor unions more fairly.
What examples support
US government lawsuit against Northern Securities Company
J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, James Hill, and E. H. Harriman formed Northern Securities Company. controlled almost all the railroads in the West. President Roosevelt and the federal government used the Sherman Antitrust Act to file a lawsuit to break up the trust. Supreme Court split the Northern Securities Company into separate businesses.
Railroad
What examples support
Support of coal mining strike
150,000 coal miners of United Mine Workers went on strike in Pennsylvania, wanted better pay and working conditions.
People supported the coal miners.
Strike could affect coal supplies, many schools and hospitals in eastern cities would have no fuel for the winter if the strike was not settled.
Roosevelt could not legally control the strike.
He asked mine owners and union leaders meet to end fight. (settle by settlement by outside observers. Mine owners refused.
Roosevelt was upset because army would take control of the mines and operate them if not settled.
Asked J. P. Morgan to help settle this strike. Morgan controlled railroads. Railroads needed coal. Morgan succeeded in arranging a deal between the miners and the mine owners. The deal included a pay raise for the miners.
Labor
What examples support
Hepburn Railway Act
topped railroad companies from raising rates without government approval
Railroad
What is the Food and Drug Act and what supports it?
Pure Food and Drug Act (stopped the manufacture or sale of food and medicine with dangerous ingredients), inspect shipped meats (across state lines), all food and medicine containers needed ingredient labels.
Food
