Study Exercise - Agrarian Revolt & Progressive Era

Question 1

This municipal reform placed a trained businessman or engineer in charge of the day-to-day affairs of the city.

Answer 1

The City Manager Plan

Question 2

A group of socially conscientious journalists who exposed society’s ills during the Progressive Era

Answer 2

Muckrakers

Question 3

This book exposed unsanitary conditions in the meat packing industry

Answer 3

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Question 4

Independent republicans and democrats fighting the spoils system

Answer 4

Mugwumps

Question 5

This state level reformer was the governor of New Jersey

Answer 5

Woodrow Wilson

Question 6

He was the most progressive of all state level reformers

Answer 6

Robert M. LaFollette

Question 7

A significant leader of the Woman Suffrage movement, her meeting with Elizabeth Cady Stanton gave the movement-needed momentum in the mid-19th century

Answer 7

Lucretia Mott

Question 8

He was said to have been the first muckraker

Answer 8

Henry Demarest Lloyd

Question 9

Site of the Women Suffrage National Convention listing demands that provoked sarcasm and ridicule from the press

Answer 9

Seneca Falls, New York

Question 10

Which Constitutional Convention was constructed on the back of the Volstead Act?

Answer 10

The 18th Amendment

Question 11

This muckraker exposed municipal corruption in Shame of the Cities

Answer 11

Lincoln Steffens

Question 12

This state was considered to be a “laboratory of progressivism”

Answer 12

Wisconsin

Question 13

A suffragist, she founded Hull House

Answer 13

Jane Adams

Question 14

The state level progressive measure that allowed voters to circumvent unresponsive legislatures

Answer 14

Ballot Initiatives

Question 15

This national progressive leader proposed a square deal for Americans, one that would focus on conservation, regulation and consumer protection

Answer 15

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 16

The state level progressive measure that allowed voters to recall unjust laws

Answer 16

Referendums

Question 17

She exposed the cutthroat tactics of John D. Rockefeller in a History of Standard Oil

Answer 17

Ida Tarbell

Question 18

This state level reformer was the governor of California

Answer 18

Hiram Johnson

Question 19

This state was known as the “Mother of all Trusts.” and Woodrow Wilson was its reform minded Governor

Answer 19

New Jersey

Question 20

It was the largest single crusade of the Progressive Movement

Answer 20

Women’s Suffrage

Question 21

This magazine was a chief outlet for muckrakers to publish their findings

Answer 21

McClure’s Magazine

Question 22

This socialist was a candidate for President in 1919 while serving time in a Federal penitentiary

Answer 22

Eugene V. Debs

Question 23

This federal legislation helped weaken trusts, becoming the precedent for more comprehensive antitrust reform

Answer 23

The Sherman Antitrust Act

Question 24

Municipal level reform was prompted in this city because of the tragic effects of a hurricane in 1900.

Answer 24

Galveston, Texas

Question 25

In How the Other Half Lives, this muckraker exposed conditions in Manhattan’s lower east side

Answer 25

Jacob Riis

Question 26

These four robber barons formed the Northern Securities firm, a railroad conglomerate that was ultimately broken up by the Federal government

Answer 26

J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, James J. Hill, and Ed Harriman

Question 27

She wrote the Ninth Resolution at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848

Answer 27

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Question 28

The New York Herald journalist who in reprinting the Declaration of Sentiments to criticize it, actually brought positive attention to it

Answer 28

James Gordon Bennett

Question 29

This process of discrimination became the Agrarian Revolt’s principal negative effect

Answer 29

Jim Crow Laws

Question 30

This “Agrarian Rebel” was on the People’s Party National ticket in 1896 with W.J. Bryan

Answer 30

Tom Watson

Question 31

This South Carolina politician and Farmer’s Alliance member never left the Democratic Party

Answer 31

Ben “Pitchfork” Tillman

Question 32

The Boy Orator of the Platte, he delivered the famous “Cross of Gold” speech in 1896

Answer 32

William Jennings Bryan

Question 33

This economist was leader and founder of the National Farmer’s Alliance

Answer 33

C.W. Macune

Question 34

An Alabama democrat and farmer’s alliance member, he became famous for his gem of a watermelon

Answer 34

Reuben F. Kolb

Question 35

This farmer based oragnization initiated pro-farmer legislation in the Midwest

Answer 35

The Grange

Question 36

Originally from Carabelle, FL, he was founder of the Patrons of Husbandry

Answer 36

Oliver H. Kelly

Question 37

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

Answer 37

The Sub-Treasury Plan

Question 38

The southern town was chosen to host a National Farmer’s Alliance convention because it was, at that time, a non-segregated community

Answer 38

Ocala, Florida

Question 39

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

Answer 39

Free Silver

Question 40

Name some positive effects of the Agrarian Revolt

Answer 40

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