US History unit 2 Flashcards
Initiative allows citizens to?
Propose and pass a law directly without involving the state legislature
What was the result for children when 39 states prohibit children under the age 14 from working?
There was an increase of children going to school.
What were the goals of the NAACP?
They protested against lynching and other racist violence
Describe New York’s Lower East Side in 1900?
Over population, unsanitary, and bad infrastructure
What did the Pendleton Act reform?
Rules and regulation regarding who could be hired for a certain job within the federal government
Describe what a party boss is?
Political leader that is usually corrupt
Who is the Arthur of the novel “The Jungle” and what did it expose?
Upton Clair exposed the unsanitary and filthy conditions of the meat factories
Which progressive reform was enacted by a constitutional amendment?
Women’s Suffrage
Who demand that big business give the people a “square deal”?
Theodore Roosevelt
- How did Presidents Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson protect the environment?
By setting aside land for national parks
- What was the purpose of the Federal Reserve System?
Restricted corporate influence and reduce government corruption
- How did Taft ruin his reputation as a progressive?
He signed the Payne-Aldrich Bill that raised taxation rates
- What are the aspects of President Wilson’s New Freedom progressive reform plan?
Limit the power of trusts, gave more freedom to small businesses, and free kids from work
- What was President Roosevelt’s perspective on monopolies?
Regulate monopolies (Sherman Antitrust Act, Clayton Antitrust Act, and Square Deal)
- What did the Homestead Act provide to settlers?
Several US Federal laws that gave an applicant ownership of land at little or no cost
- Why did the US Government set up schools for the American Indians?
Americanize them
- What did the Populist Party support in the late 1800s?
Advocate a larger money supply and other economic reforms
- What do the Pullman Strike, Homestead Strike, and Haymarket Affair have in common?
There was a disagreement resulting in a strike
- Who headed the American Railway Union and led the fight against mgmt. during the Pullman Strike?
Eugene Debs
- What makes the Railroad Strike (Pullman Strike) of 1877 significant?
First time a government called an army to break up a strike / fight
- The amendment that established a federal income tax?
16th Amendment
- The amendment that gave women the right to vote?
19th Amendment
- What were the major goals of the Hull House (Jane Addams)?
Provide social and educational opportunities for working class people
- Under the US Constitution, when can the government take private land?
The government pays the owners a fair compensation for the land
- During the Gilded Age, there was an increase in federal support for?
The growth of big business
- Explain the US Supreme Court decision Plessey v. Ferguson
Separate but equal is fair, and created a legal justification for segregation laws
