Unit 3- History

Question 1

Who wrote the expose “How the Other Half Lives” and what effect did it have on society?

Answer 1

Jacob Riis in 1890: Tenement act of 1901, Health and safety codes

Question 2

What book did Upton Sinclair write, and what effects did it have on society?

Answer 2

The Jungle ( 1906): Meat inspection act and Pure food/ drug act in 1906

Question 3

Which two African American leaders were active during the Progressive Era, and how did their views differ?

Answer 3

Booker T. Washington: wanted the African Americans to fight back
DU Bios: Wanted the African Americans to have rights like the white people did

Question 4

Who wrote about John D. Rockefeller’s corrupt business practices and what effect did their work have?

Answer 4

Ida Tarbell: The company was declared a monopoly and was forced to break up

Question 5

What was the Triangle Shirtwaist fire and how did it change worker conditions in factories?

Answer 5

A fire that broke out in the building, fire escapes and elevators were unavaliable as they were either locked or the fire blocked them causing about 146 deaths that were mostly women

Question 6

What journalistic effort was responsible for the passage of anti-lynching legislation and who was the author?

Answer 6

Ida B. Wells: statistics

Question 7

Who was the political cartoonist that exposed the corruption in Tammany Hall, and what did they reveal?

Answer 7

Thomas Nast: Tweed’s ring political Machines

Question 8

What efforts towards reform did the Women’s Christian Temperance Union engage in?

Answer 8

Reported Alcohol abuse and Domestic violence

Question 9

What were the core shared values across most reform movements during the Progressive Era?

Answer 9

make the US better/ safer

Question 10

What effects did the increase of industrial capacity have on the workplace?

Answer 10

Longer hours, wages lower, workers worked harder

Question 11

What notable goal did the National American Suffrage Association acheive?

Answer 11

Women’s right to vote

Question 12

What supreme court case concluded that “ separate but equal” did note violate the 14th Amendment?

Answer 12

Plessy V.S. Ferguson

Question 13

What case represented a major supreme court victory for the NAACP?

Answer 13

Buchanan V. Worley (1917) ended Kentucky House segragation

Question 14

What economic class of women were very active in the reform movements of the Progressive Era?

Answer 14

Middle- class

Question 15

Who discovered the NAACP?

Answer 15

Du Bios

Question 16

Who promoted the Square Deal and what was it?

Answer 16

Roosevelt; equalize everything

Question 17

In what ways were unions and owners made to reach agreements about hours and wages?

Answer 17

arbitration

Question 18

What reformer helped to expand social services for the mentally ill?

Answer 18

Dortha DIx

Question 19

What reformer supported public education for everyone?

Answer 19

Hourse Mam

Question 20

What was the primary mission of the temperance movements?

Answer 20

To get rid of alcohol

Question 21

Who were the Wobblies? What was their mission?

Answer 21

A union to advicated for rights of a workplace and to make capitalism to disappear

Question 22

What were the primary criticism of industrial capitialism?

Answer 22

child labor, low wagers but long hours

Question 23

What industrialist paid his workers well but was Anti-union?

Answer 23

Henry Ford

Question 24

What is Taylorism ( aka Scientific mangagment)

Answer 24

strict rules and supervision in order to increase worker productivity

Question 25

What ethnic group did Roosevelt think did not fit into the American workforce?

Answer 25

Japaness

Question 26

What effect did the drop in union membership have on the economy since the Progressive Era?

Answer 26

the money goes to the rich

Question 27

Who was Walter Lippman, and what were his views about the reforms of the Progressive Era?

Answer 27

Progressive editor that believed you should listen to the experts as they know better

Question 28

Presidents responsible for the reforms: Dollar Diplomacy, Federal Reserve, Panama canal?

Answer 28

Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson

Question 29

What US founding document did The Declaration of Sentiments most resemble?

Answer 29

Declaration of Independence

Question 30

Where was the first confrence to address women’s rights held in 1848?

Answer 30

Seneca Falls, New York

Question 31

What were the reasons given by Anti-suffragists for why women should not be allowed to vote?

Answer 31

They are not allowed to join the military ( stick to what they know) and suffrage leads to divorce

Question 32

how is eugenies difined?

Answer 32

breeding humans to create a perfect race