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The Progressive Era Flashcards

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What does gilded mean?

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Something that looks good on the outside but when you look closer, it is junk in the middle

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What was the progressive era nicknamed as?

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“The Gilded Age”

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What were the problems of the progressive era? 5

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  • spoil system
  • corrupt politicians
  • corruption in big businesses
  • poverty
  • public looses faith in government
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What is are bosses?

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Corrupt politicians that run cities

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What did bosses do?

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Accepted $ while awarding contracts for construction jobs in the cities

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Why were bosses popular with the poor?

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They gave the poor gifts and the poor don’t know better

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Who is Boss Tweet?

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A boss in NY, stole more than $100 million from the city

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What are recall elections?

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The people could vote to remove corrupt or incompetent politicians from office

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What is an example of a recall election?

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Gov. Arnold Swartz, in Cali

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What is an initiative?

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The people could propose a bill to the legislature to possibly become a law

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What is referendum?

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The people directly vote on a proposed law

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What did the 16th Amendment do?

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•graduated income tax

  • federal government can collect a tax on your income
  • graduated- the rich pay more than the poor
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What did the 17th Amendment do?

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•direct election of senators

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What happened before the 17th amendment was ratified?

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Each states legislature had chosen the senators(corruption usually played a role in their choice)

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What were muckrakers?

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Crusading journalist who were exposing corruption

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Who were some famous muckrakers?

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  • Ida Tarbell
  • Jacob Riis
  • Upton Sinclair
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What did Ida Tarbell do?

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Wrote about the unfair practices of Rockefeller

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What did Jacob Riis do?

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Took pictures of slum life in tenements

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What did Upton Sinclair do?

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Wrote The Jungle, which exposed conditions in the meat packing industry

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What is suffrage?

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The right to vote

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What was the women’s suffrage movement??

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Women fighting for the right to vote

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What did the 19th Amendment do?

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Gave women the right to vote

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What were women’s clubs?

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Started out as social gatherings- knitting or cooking together. Then they became more organized and started to discuss women’s rights

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What was the Temperance Movement?

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Movement hat started to outlaw alcohol

• wanted to stop domestic and alcohol abuse

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What was the temperance movement known as?

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End of urbanization

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What did the 18th amendment do?

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It made it illegal to make, transport, or possess alcohol

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What does the 18th amendment start?

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Prohibition

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How are urbanization and he temperance movement?

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Alcohol was available in taverns

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What was Theodore Roosevelt called?

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The great progressive

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What was the square deal?

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Roosevelt promised that everyone would have be same chance to succeed in America- everything would be square(fair)

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What was his nicknamed?

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The trustbuster

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What is a trustbuster?

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A person who works to destroy monopolies and trusts

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What did teddy think about trust?

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He thought the trusts were hurting American economy and Americas freedom

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Roosevelt the union supporter

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  • helped miners get better working conditions
  • conservation
  • established the national forest service
  • national parks
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What is conservation

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Protection of natural resources

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Roosevelt protecting consumers

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Pure food and drug act(1906)

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The election of 1908

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Roosevelt didn’t want to run again, Taft won easily

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Who was the democratic nominee for the election of 1912

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Woodrow Wilson

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Who was the republican nominee for the election of 1912

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William Howard Taft

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Who was the progressive party(bull moose party) nominee for the election of 1912?

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Theodore Roosevelt

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