History 122 – Chapter 21 – Flashcards
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How did the American progressive movement begin and evolve?
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It began at the grassroots level and percolated up to the national level of government.
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Lawyers used a mass of sociological evidence in the 1908 Muller v. Oregon case to demonstrate
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the ill effects of working long hours on the health and safety of women.
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Progressives launched the social purity movement to
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attack prostitution and other vices.
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The efforts of Alice Paul and Carrie Chapman Catt were instrumental in
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Women's suffrage
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Robert La Follette, a critic of the Roosevelt administration, believed the progressive president's greatest work was in
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the conservation of natural resources.
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To obtain the Panamanian isthmus for construction of a canal in 1903, the United States
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backed an uprising in Panama arranged by New York investors.
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The term muckrakers refers to Progressive Era journalists who were known for
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writing stories about corporate and political wrongdoing.
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The progressives that influenced the United States during the years between 1890 and 1916 were
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reformers with a broad agenda of concerns.
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One of Cleveland mayor Thomas Lofton Johnson's primary goals was to
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reduce Cleveland's streetcar system's fare from five cents to three cents to promote working-class ridership.
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What idea formed the core of reform Darwinist theory in progressive-era America?
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The state should play a more active role in solving social problems.
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How did Wisconsin governor Robert La Follette unite his supporters during the first years of the twentieth century?
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La Follette emphasized reform over party loyalty.
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President Roosevelt was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906 for his role in
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the Russo-Japanese war.
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Beginning in the 1890s, progressive southerners sought to reform the electoral system in the South by
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disfranchising black voters
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Elevating productivity and efficiency but alienating the working class, Frederick Winslow Taylor pioneered the practice of
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systematized shop management.
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What assumption lay at the foundation of the American progressive agenda in the early twentieth century?
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Experts have the skills and knowledge to utilize scientific methods to improve society.
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What did Jane Addams quickly learn was necessary to alleviate social problems in Chicago?
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Involvement in political action
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Progressives tended to believe
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in the power of science.
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Margarine
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became popular in part because it did not spoil easy.
