Progressive Era
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True or False
As President, neither Roosevelt or Taft wiere willing to do anything except exactly what the laws said. - False
- What word means to use the natural resources fo the nation wisely?
- preservation
- How did President Roosevelt become involved in the 1902 coal mining strike?
- By forcing the two sides to use arbitration
- Author of The Jungle
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Upton Sinclair
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True or False
William Howard Taft looked forward to running for President. - False
- Meeting to formally settle disagreements
- arbitration
- From what economic class were most progressives?
- The middle class
- Political leaders who controlled elections through bribery and payoffs
- political bosses
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True or False
Woodrow Wilson was the sixth Republican in a row to be elected President. - False
- Argued that African Americans should focus their efforts on improving their own education and economic well-being
- Booker T. Washington
- What law was inspired by the book The Jungle and required inspection of food?
- Pure Food and Drug Act
- Amendment which outlawed the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages in the United States
- Eighteenth Amendment
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True or False
While President, Theodore Roosevelt emphasized more land for national parks. - True
- Organized by W.E.B. DuBois and others to fight discrimination against African Americans
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- From what country did Congress restrict immigration in the 1880s?
- China
- Gives voters the ability to propose a new law by collecting signatures on a petition supporting that law
- initiative
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True or False
Progressives were very happy with the leadership of Taft as President. - False
- Tragic industrial accident where 146 workers died in a fire
- Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
- Who were the reformers who worked to improve American society in the late 1800s?
- Progressives
- Progressive journalists who wrote about corruption in business and politics
- muckrakers
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True or False
Believing it to be more fair, Progressives supported a graduated income tax. - True
- Economic system in which the government own and operate most of a nation's means of production
- socialism
- What political program called for government action against monopolies to ensure free competition?
- New Freedom
- Word which means "right to vote"
- suffrage
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True or False
President Roosevelt did not think all trusts, or monopolies were bad. - True
- Used methods such as picketing, hunger strikes, and civil disobedience to campaign for women's suffrage
- National Woman's Party
- Of what university was Woodrow Wilson president before becoming president of the U.S.?
- Princeton
- Gilded Age president elected in 1884 and again in 1892
- Grover Cleveland
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True or False
During the Progressive Era, many women joined clubs to talk about current affairs. - True
- Name of New York City's political machine
- Tamany Hall
- What political platform wanted a strong executive, with more government regulation?
- New Nationalism
- Amendment which gave to Americans the right to vote directly for U.S. Senators
- Seventeenth Amendment
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True or False
Public education was an important issue for progressives. - True
- Labor union which worked to bring all laborers together and would try to overthrow capitalism
- Industrial Workers of the World
- What commision was established by the federal government with the power to examine company records and business practices?
- Federal Trade Commission
- Amendment which gave to women in the United States the right to vote
- Nineteenth Amendment
- What law gave the government more power to get rid of monopolies?
- Clayton Anti-Trust Act
- Economic system where private businesses run most industries, and competitiion determines how much goods cost and workers paid
- capitalism
- The process that lets the voters of a state vote on whether or not a law made by the legislature, would remain a law.
- referendum
- Supreme Court decision which ruled that states could not limit the working hours or ordinary workers
- Lochner v. New York
- Who was the author of The Jungle?
- Upton Sinclair
- Supreme Court decision which upheld laws limiting women's work hours
- Muller v. Oregon
- Who worked to change the methods of teaching to include problem solving and critical thinking?
- John Dewey
- Created to oversee public lands and monuments owned by the federal government
- National Park Service
- Who was the Socialist Party candidate for president in 1912?
- Eugene Debs
- Journalist who wrote about lynchings of African Americans
- Ida B. Wells-Barnett
- What governor of Wisconsin proposed many government reforms?
- Robert LaFollette
- Roosevelt's program to treat every citizen fairly
- Square Deal
- Which Progressive worked for laws to protect child and women?
- Florence Kelley
- Wrote many muckraking articles for McClure's Magazine
- Ida Tarbell
- Organizations which guaranteed votes at election time through both legal and illegal methods
- political machines
- First Jewish person to be a Supreme Court Justice
- Louis Brandeis
- Allowed the federal government to pass direct taxes, such as an income tax
- Sixteenth Amendment
- Created a merit system controlled by the Civil Service Commission
- Pendleton Civil Service Act
- A program of reforms to reduce the influence of political machines
- Wisconsin Idea
- Became president after William McKinley was assassinated
- Theodore Roosevelt
- System which allowed citizens to choose candidates for public office rather than relying on party leaders
- direct primary
- Prohibited the manufacture, sale, or transportation of mislabled or contaminated food/drugs
- Pure Food and Drug Act
- Nickname for Progressive Party
- Bull Moose Party
- elected president in 1888
- Benjamin Harrison
- Organization which helped African Americans find jobs and housing when moving urban areas
- National Urban League