The Progressive Movement: All Notes From 10/20/14 Flashcards
________ was partly a reaction against Laissez- Faire economics and its emphasis on an unregulated market.
Progressivism
Who believed that industrialization and urbanization had created many social problems?
Progressives
Most progressives were ______, _____, _____-_____, Americans. (Journalists, social workers, educators, politicians, and members of the clergy.)
Urban, educated, middle-class
What was one reason Progressives thought that they could improve society?
Their strong faith in science and technology.
Theodore Roosevelt nicknamed crusading journalists what?
Muckrakers
Who were journalists that uncovered abuses and corruption in a society?
Muckrakers
__ _____ and _____ ______ _____ concentrated on exposing the unfair practices of large corporations. ( 2 people )
Ida Tarbell and Charles Edward Russell
Who reported on vote stealing and other corrupt political practices of political machines?
Lincoln Steffens
Who published photographs and descriptions of the poverty, disease, and crime that afflicted many immigrant neighborhoods in NYC? In what book?
Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives
Who attacked the way political parties ran their conventions?
Robert M. La Follette
La Follette pressured the state legislature of Wisconsin to pass a law requiring parties to hold a _______ ______.
Direct primary
A vote held by all members of a political party to decide their candidate for public office is called a what?
Direct primary
The ______ is the right of citizens to place a measure or issue before the voters or the legislature for approval.
Initiative
The __________ is the practice of letting voters accept or reject measures proposed by the legislature.
Referendum
The _____ is the right that enables voters to remove unsatisfactory elected officials from office.
Recall
In 1913, the ___ Amendment was ratified and added to the constitution.
17th
The 17th Amendment allows for the ______ ______ of senators.
Direct election
Who convinced the delegates at Seneca Falls that winning suffrage for women should be a priority?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Who were threatened and called unfeminine and immoral? ( Many of the movement’s supporters were abolitionists as well. )
Suffragists
The ___ Amendment granted citizenship to African Americans.
14th
The ___ Amendment granted voting rights to African American men.
15th
The debate over the 14th and 15th Amendments would split the Women’s Suffrage Movement into what 2 separate groups?
National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) and American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA)
The _____ wanted to focus on passing a constitutional amendment for women’s suffrage.
NWSA
The _____ believed that the best strategy was convincing state governments to grant women the right to vote first.
AWSA
In 1890 the 2 groups NWSA and AWSA united to form the what?
National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
Many states began passing ________ _________ laws requiring young children to be in school instead of work.
Compulsory education
What set minimum standards for light, air, room size, and sanitation and required buildings to have fire escapes?
Building codes
What required restaurants and other facilities to maintain clean environments for their patrons?
Health codes
Many Progressives blamed _________ for many of society’s problems.
Alcohol
Who knew that wages were often spent on alcohol and that drunkenness often led to physical abuse and illness?
Settlement- house workers
In 1874, a group of women formed the ________ _______ _______ _______ aimed at reducing alcohol consumption.
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Laws banning the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages is called what?
Prohibition
Who was born into a wealthy New York family in 1885?
Theodore Roosevelt
As a teenager, Roosevelt, mastered what 2 things?
Marksmanship and horseback riding
When Roosevelt spared a bear cub on a hunting expedition, a toymaker marketed a popular new product, the ______ ______. Which made his nickname ______.
Teddy bear, Teddy
Roosevelt attended what college?
Harvard
Roosevelt became president at the age of __? ( The youngest ever in office until JFK. )
42
Roosevelt believed in ______ _______, which held that nations were in competition and only the strongest would survive.
Social Darwinism
Who believed that government should balance the needs of competing groups in American society on behalf of public interest?
Roosevelt
Roosevelt’s reform programs became known as the what?
Square Deal
Roosevelt’s first target was J.P. Morgan’s railroad holding company, _____ ______.
Northern Securities
