US History Progressive Era – Flashcards
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How Roosevelt felt about trusts
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Those who hurt the public should be destroyed
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poor sanitation problems in tenements
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poor ventilation, garbage in the streets, diseases
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First State to let women vote
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Wyoming
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womens vote Amendment
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19th
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could be legally beaten
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women (by husbands)
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African-American issues
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segregation, racism, lynchings, limited access to education and healthcare
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model for Declaration of Sentiments
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Declaration of Independence
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Plessey v Ferguson
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separate but equal
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Interstate Commerce Act
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just & reasonable rates, no secret rebates, rates had to be published
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Sherman Antitrust Act
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outlawed trusts and monopolies
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Pendleton Act
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outlawed patronage, created the Civil Service Commission
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Clayton Antitrust Act
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legalized boycotts, picketing, and peaceful strikes
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Progressivism
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removed corruption from government, rejected church as driving force for change, government must play role in solving social problems
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muckrakers
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writers who detailed horrors of poverty,urban slums, dangerous factory conditions, and child labor
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National Child Labor Commission
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Lewis Hines
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Meat Inspection Act
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animals inspected before slaughter, post-mortem, cleanliness standards for slaughterhouses and processing plants
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Pure Food and Drug Act
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Food & Drug Administration to test all food & drugs, drug prescriptions from doctors, warning labels for addictive drugs
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disenfranchised
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doesn`t have right to vote
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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
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led to safer working conditions reform
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US Steel, International Harvester
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first to enact voluntary safety rules
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NY State Tenement House Law
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fire escapes, lighted hallways, windows & ventilation
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progressive reformers ignored
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racial injustice (Blacks and Native Americans)
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Segregation prevented
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more severe problems and violence in the South
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more lynchings in South
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because the federal government discontinued historic efforts to protect blacks
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education
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first tool used to implant habits of proper behavior and good citizenship
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groups helped by Progressives
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women, children, factory workers
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Upton Sinclair
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muckraker, wrote The Jungle about meat packing industry
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Ida Tarbell
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wrote about Standard Oil methods of eliminating competition
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Robert LaFollette
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reform Governor of Wisconsin, advocate of direct primary elections
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Lincoln Steffens
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wrote of corruption in New York City and Chicago
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Booker T Washington
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Founded Tuskegee Institute. Blacks should learn trades and get educations
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W E B DuBois
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started NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
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Ida Wells
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told northern people about southern lynchings through writings
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Marcus Garvey
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Settled Liberia in Africa for blacks from America
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Jane Addams
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Opened the first settlement house (in Chicago)
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Marie Owens
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First female police officer in Chicago
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Mary Sanger
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Opened first birth control clinic, became Planned Parenthood
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Alice Paul
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Founded the National Womens Party, worked for suffrage
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William "Boss" Tweed
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led political machine in New York City
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Thomas Nast
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political cartoonist that exposed Tweed
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William Hand
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wrote "Making Steel and Killing Men" about unsafe steel industry
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George Waring
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Street Commissioner that cleaned up New York City
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referendum
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a direct vote on a ballot proposal
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secret ballot
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protected the public from party bosses
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recall
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used to remove elected officials from office
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federal income tax
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16th Amendment
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Alice Hamilton
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studied work-related illnesses
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Jacob Riis
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used journalism to expose poor living conditions in tenements
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Mary Harris Jones
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helped found the Industrial Workers of the World
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The Factory Inspector
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publicized industrial accidents throughout the nation
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Essay Question #1: Identify and describe one social issue from 1895-1915, and the Progressive reforms and reformers that addressed the problems of that isse.
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How to answer: Select one of the 9 issues from the "Social Issues and Reformers Chart: 1895-1915" that you filled in as we presented in class. Learn the problems and the reforms/reformers for that issue.
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Essay Question #2: How was the Progressive Movement a reaction to changes that took place in the United States between 1877-1915?
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How to answer: Remember that in the first unit this year we studied the causes and effects of urbanization, industrialization, and immigration. These 3 things caused a lot of changes in the US. This unit was about how people worked to correct the problems created by these changes. You should be able to describe some of the changes that happened as a result of the first unit, the problems they caused, and the solutions (reforms) and people who created those solutions (reformers).
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Essay Question #3: Describe the major changes that took place as a result of the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th Amendments to the Constitution.
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How to answer: You must know what each Amendment did, and how that change impacted the people of the United States.
