Study Exercise - Agrarian Revolt & Progressive Era Flashcards
This municipal reform placed a trained businessman or engineer in charge of the day-to-day affairs of the city.
The City Manager Plan
A group of socially conscientious journalists who exposed society’s ills during the Progressive Era
Muckrakers
This book exposed unsanitary conditions in the meat packing industry
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Independent republicans and democrats fighting the spoils system
Mugwumps
This state level reformer was the governor of New Jersey
Woodrow Wilson
He was the most progressive of all state level reformers
Robert M. LaFollette
A significant leader of the Woman Suffrage movement, her meeting with Elizabeth Cady Stanton gave the movement-needed momentum in the mid-19th century
Lucretia Mott
He was said to have been the first muckraker
Henry Demarest Lloyd
Site of the Women Suffrage National Convention listing demands that provoked sarcasm and ridicule from the press
Seneca Falls, New York
Which Constitutional Convention was constructed on the back of the Volstead Act?
The 18th Amendment
This muckraker exposed municipal corruption in Shame of the Cities
Lincoln Steffens
This state was considered to be a “laboratory of progressivism”
Wisconsin
A suffragist, she founded Hull House
Jane Adams
The state level progressive measure that allowed voters to circumvent unresponsive legislatures
Ballot Initiatives
This national progressive leader proposed a square deal for Americans, one that would focus on conservation, regulation and consumer protection
Theodore Roosevelt
The state level progressive measure that allowed voters to recall unjust laws
Referendums
She exposed the cutthroat tactics of John D. Rockefeller in a History of Standard Oil
Ida Tarbell
This state level reformer was the governor of California
Hiram Johnson
This state was known as the “Mother of all Trusts.” and Woodrow Wilson was its reform minded Governor
New Jersey
It was the largest single crusade of the Progressive Movement
Women’s Suffrage
This magazine was a chief outlet for muckrakers to publish their findings
McClure’s Magazine
This socialist was a candidate for President in 1919 while serving time in a Federal penitentiary
Eugene V. Debs
This federal legislation helped weaken trusts, becoming the precedent for more comprehensive antitrust reform
The Sherman Antitrust Act
Municipal level reform was prompted in this city because of the tragic effects of a hurricane in 1900.
Galveston, Texas
In How the Other Half Lives, this muckraker exposed conditions in Manhattan’s lower east side
Jacob Riis
These four robber barons formed the Northern Securities firm, a railroad conglomerate that was ultimately broken up by the Federal government
J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, James J. Hill, and Ed Harriman
She wrote the Ninth Resolution at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The New York Herald journalist who in reprinting the Declaration of Sentiments to criticize it, actually brought positive attention to it
James Gordon Bennett
This process of discrimination became the Agrarian Revolt’s principal negative effect
Jim Crow Laws
This “Agrarian Rebel” was on the People’s Party National ticket in 1896 with W.J. Bryan
Tom Watson
This South Carolina politician and Farmer’s Alliance member never left the Democratic Party
Ben “Pitchfork” Tillman
The Boy Orator of the Platte, he delivered the famous “Cross of Gold” speech in 1896
William Jennings Bryan
This economist was leader and founder of the National Farmer’s Alliance
C.W. Macune
An Alabama democrat and farmer’s alliance member, he became famous for his gem of a watermelon
Reuben F. Kolb
This farmer based oragnization initiated pro-farmer legislation in the Midwest
The Grange
Originally from Carabelle, FL, he was founder of the Patrons of Husbandry
Oliver H. Kelly
This plank in the Ocala platform called for the Federal government to construct warehouses to communities producing more than $250,000 worth of agriculture annually
The Sub-Treasury Plan
The southern town was chosen to host a National Farmer’s Alliance convention because it was, at that time, a non-segregated community
Ocala, Florida
This issue was to be the principal plank in the “People’s Party” campaign in 1896, but was usurped by the Democrats first, taking the wind out of the Populists sails
Free Silver
Name some positive effects of the Agrarian Revolt
farmers learned to use collective clout as pressure, basic political reforms were enacted, white males returned to the voting booth in record numbers, esp small yeomen farmers
