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Unit 3: The Progressive Era Flashcards

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What are the four goals of progressivism?

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  1. Protecting social welfare 2. Promoting moral improvement 3. Creating economic reform 4. Fostering efficiency
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What did protecting social welfare do?

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Softened the harsh conditions of industrialization

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What did the Young Men’s Christian Association do? (YMCA)

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Opened libraries, sponsored classes, built swimming pools, and it was a place for young men (YMCA Song)

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What did the Salvation Army do?

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

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Who was Florence Kelley and what did he do?

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An advocate for improving lives of women and children, she helped pass state laws banning child labor and was appointed chief inspector of Illinois

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What is the temperance movement?

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An organized campaign to eliminate alcohol consumption

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Which three groups dominated the temperance movement?

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The prohibition party, Women’s Christian temperance Union (WCTU), and the Anti-Saloon League

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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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Who was one of the biggest leaders of the WCTU?

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Carry Nation

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What did the WCTU do?

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They entered saloons singing, praying, and urging saloon owners to stop selling alcohol. They also worked to open kindergartens for immigrants, visited prisoners, and worked in the suffrage movement

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What did the Anti Saloon League believe and do?

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They believed that immigrants were the cause of the alcoholism , and they worked to pass laws to force people to change and punish those who drank

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Who were the muckrakers?

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Mostly journalists who uncover wrongdoings

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What is scientific management?

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Breaking manufacturing tasks into simpler parts

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How did women lead reform?

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The educated women applied their knowledge and skills to the reform movement, including suffrage, and the uneducated started reforms in the workplace

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What is “social housekeeping?”

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Targeted to workplace reform, housing reform, educational and food improvement, and drug laws

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What was the National association of Colored Women (NACW)?

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They were involved in the a pains in favor of women’s suffrage, against lynching, and against Jim Crow laws. The founders were Ida B Wells and Harriet Tubman: the most important African American women’s movement group

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What is suffrage?

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The right to vote

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How long did women’s movement groups fight for suffrage?

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70 years

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Who was Elizabeth Cady Stanton?

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A skilled speaker and writer who helped create the National Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)

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Who was Susan B Anthony?

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A tireless strategist and organizer who helped form NAWSA

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When did the women’s suffrage movement begin?

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1848 Seneca Falls convention

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Which amendments did women fight with for their suffrage?

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The 14th and 15th which states that African American men are equal to white men, but women still were not

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Who were some of the leaders of NAWSA?

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Susan B Anthony, Elisabeth Cady Stanton, (Lucy stone, Julia Ward Howe) (later)

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When did Anthony lead a group of women to the polls and insisted to vote?

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1872

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What is civil disobedience?

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

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Who opposed the women’s suffrage movement?

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Men, the liquor industry, and the textile industry

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What was the three part strategy for suffrage?

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Target individual states 2. Test the 14th Amendment 3. National Constitutional amendment

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What did the National Women suffrage association do?

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Worked on a state level to win voting rights

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What did the fourteenth amendment say?

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The states would lose congressional representation if their male citizens were denied the right to vote

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What did The Supreme Court rule about the 14th Amendment?

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Women were citizens, but citizenship doesn’t automatically mean right to vote

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Who concentrated their efforts on a national constitutional amendment?

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NAWSA

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Why was pushing a national law so hard?

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Because the Senate kept stalling and they couldn’t get enough votes in the congress. It was not revisited until 1913

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Who were some 20th century leaders of NAWSA?

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Carrie chapman Catt and Alice Paul

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What were the 3 developments which helped women win suffrage?

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  1. Increased activism of local groups 2. Use of bold new strategies to build enthusiasm 3. Rebirth of national movement under Carrie Chapman Catt
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What were Catt’s five tactics to winning suffrage?

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  1. Organization 2. Close ties between local, state and national workers 3. Establishing a wide base of supporters of 4. Cautious lobbying 5. Gracious, lady like behavior
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What was the nineteenth amendment?

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The legislation in which granted women the right to vote in 1919

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Who was Woodrow Wilson?

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The twenty eighth president of the United States, he campaigned for a “new freedom” he was the governor of New Jersey and and was for stronger anti trust laws, banking reform and reduced tariffs

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What was the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914?

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It prohibited corporations from squiring the stock of another company if doing so would create a monopoly

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What is the federal trade commission act of 1914?

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It set up the federal trade commission

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What is the federal trade commission?

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Called the “watchdog” agency, it investigated possible violations, required reports from corporations, and helped end unfair business practices

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What was the 16th amendment?

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It legalized a federal income tax, taxing individual earnings and corporate profits

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What is the Federal Reserve System? (the fed)

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The u.s. Central banking system which divided the nation into twelve districts which in each established a central bank that issues U.S currency. It is also Wilton’s most lasting achievement

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How was Wilson with Civil Rights?

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He broke his promises of treating blacks equally which made the NAACP and the black and white supporters feel betrayed.

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What is the progressive movement?

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Aimed to restore economic opportunities and correct social injustices in American life

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