Unit 3: The Progressive Era Flashcards

1
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What were the four goals of progressivism?

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  • protecting social welfare
  • promoting moral improvement
  • creating economic reform
  • fostering efficiency
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2
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What does protecting social welfare consist of?

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Soften the harsh conditions of industrialization

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3
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What groups were started to protect social welfare?

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Social Gospel Movement(settlement houses)
YMCA: Young Men’s Christian Association
Salvation Army

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4
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What was the YMCA?

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A group of men that opened libraries, sponsored classes, built swimming pools; place to go for young men

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5
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What did the Salvation Army do?

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  • a group of people that fed the poor in soup kitchens

- sent “slum brigades” to instruct poor immigrants in middle-class values of hard work and temperance

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6
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Who was Florence Kelley?

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  • an advocate for improving the lives of women and children

- was appointed as chief inspector of Illinois factories; helped pass state law banning child labor

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7
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What was the temperance movement?

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An organized campaign to eliminate alcohol consumption

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8
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What three groups dominated the temperance movement?

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  • Prohibition Movement
  • Women’s Christian Temperance Union
  • Anti-Saloon League
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9
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What did those that supported prohibition believe?

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Saloons/alcohol undermined public morals

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10
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What is prohibition?

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A ban on the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages

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11
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What was the WCTU?

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Leaders in temperance movement (Carry Nation)

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12
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What did the WCTU do?

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Entered saloons:

  • singing
  • praying
  • urging saloon owners to stop selling alcohol
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13
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How many members were part of the WCTU in 1911?

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245,000 members (mostly women)

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14
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What other contributions did the WCTU do?(3)

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  • opened kindergartens to immigrants
  • visited prisoners
  • worked in suffrage movement
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15
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What was the Anti-Saloon League?

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Blamed immigrants for country’s alcoholic problem

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16
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What did the Anti-Saloon League do?

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Worked to:

  • pass laws to force people to change
  • punish those who drank
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17
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What kind of people played key roles in alerting the public?

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  • journalists

- writers

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18
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What exposed the meat-packing industry?

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Upton Sinclair’s book called “The Juggle”

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19
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What exposed political corruption?

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Lincoln Steffen’s called “The Shame of Cities”

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20
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Who were Muckcrakers?

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Journalists who uncover wrongdoings

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21
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What is scientific management?

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Breaking manufacturing tasks into simpler parts

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22
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Who started “Taylorism,” something that has to do with scientific management?

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Fredrick Winslow Taylor

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23
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What was the result of “Taylorism”?

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Led to the beginning of shrinking the workday to eight hours

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24
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What was the progressive era about?

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It was aimed to restore economic opportunities and correct social injustices in American life

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25
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Women that were active in public life were what?

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Often educated at new women’s colleges

small percentage of upper-class

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26
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What year were women accepted into Vassar?

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1865

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27
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What year were women accepted into Wellesley?

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1875

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28
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What colleges refused to admit women?

later would have separate colleges for women

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Harvard, Columbia and Brown

29
Q

Many educated women applied ___________/________ to the reform movement.

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knowledge/skills

30
Q

Uneducated laborers started reforms in ______________.

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workplace

31
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What strengthened the movements?

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Participation of educated women

32
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What was “social housekeeping”?

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targeted:

  • workplace reform
  • housing reform
  • educational improvement
  • food and drug laws
33
Q

What was the NACW?

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The National Association of Colored Women was founded in 1896

34
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What did the NACW involve?

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Campaigns in favor of women’s suffrage and against lynching/Jim Crow laws

35
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Who were the founders of the NACW?

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  • Harriet Tubman

- Ida B. Wells

36
Q

What was the most important African American women’s movement group?

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NACW

37
Q

What is suffrage?

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The right to vote

38
Q

How many years did women’s organizations actively campaign for the right to vote?

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70 years

39
Q

T or F

Many people, including women, did NOT want women to have the right to vote.

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TRUE

40
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What did many suffragists face when hearing these arguments?

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Confrontation including:

  • ridicule
  • threats
  • violence
41
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Who were some major suffrage leaders?

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  • Elizabeth Cady Staton

- Susan B. Anthony

42
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Who was Susan B. Anthony?

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A tireless strategist and organizer

43
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Who was Elizabeth Cady Stanton?

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A skilled speaker and writer

44
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They both fought into the ____ century.

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20th

45
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What was the Seneca Falls Convention?

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Women split over the 14th and 15th amendments which granted equal rights (including the right to vote for African American Men) but excluded women

46
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Who were some leaders that were part of the National Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)?

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  • Susan B. Anthony
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Lucy Stone
  • Julia Ward Howe
47
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Who was arrested for “civil disobedience”?

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Susan B. Anthony where she led a group of women to the polls in Rochester New York where she insisted on voting

48
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What is “civil disobedience”?

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A nonviolent refusal to obey a law in an effort to change it

49
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What did the liquor industry fear?

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That women would vote in support of Prohibition

50
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What did the textile industry worry about?

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That women would vote for restrictions for child labor

51
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What did men fear?

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The changing role of women in society

52
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What did the American Women Suffrage Association work on to win voting rights?

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Moved to the state level

53
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What state entered union as first state to grant women suffrage (1869)?

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Wyoming

54
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What other states followed Wyoming in the 1890s?

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Utah, Colorado, Idaho

55
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What did western states do to be able to survive on the frontier?

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Combined efforts of both men and women which encouraged a greater sense of equality

56
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What did the 14th Amendment state?

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Declared that they would lose congressional representation of their male citizens were denied the right to vote

57
Q

In 1875 what did the Supreme Court rule out?

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Women were indeed citizens but would later say that citizenship does not automatically mean right to vote

58
Q

What did the NAWSA concentrate their efforts on?

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The 14th Amendment and granting women the right to vote

59
Q

For 41 years they fought to have an amendment introduced to Congress but __________.

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failed

60
Q

Pushing forth a national law proved much more _________.

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difficult

61
Q

The law kept stalling in the ___________ and was not revisited until 1913.

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Senate

62
Q

By 1890, women had won many rights such as:

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buying, selling and will property

63
Q

Younger women started to join the _____________.

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movement

64
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What new leaders took over when Staton and Anthony died?

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  • Carrie Chapman Catt

- Alice Paul

65
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What three major developments were made when women’s suffrage won?

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  • increased activism of local groups
  • use of bold new strategies to build enthusiasm
  • rebirth of national movement under Carrie Chapman Catt
66
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What were the five tactics that Catt used in the National Movement:

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  • organization
  • close ties between local, state and national workers
  • establishing a wide base of support
  • cautious lobbying
  • gracious, lady-like behavior
67
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What kind of strategies did Alice Paul use in her movement?

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radical strategies like picketing the White House

68
Q

What did the 19th amendment state?

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Passed legislation in 1919 granting women the right to vote

69
Q

The 19th Amendment won final ratification in August if what year?

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1920