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1
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laws banning the manufacture, sale, and consumption of alcohol

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Prohibition

2
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progressives campaigned against this emotional issue

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Child Labor

3
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allowed a group of citizens in a state to introduce legislation and required the legislature to vote on it

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Initiative

4
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journalists who investigated social conditions and political corruption

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Muckrakers

5
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the right to vote

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Suffrage

6
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Wisconsin became a model of political reform under the leadership of who?

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Robert La Follette

7
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What did progressives think neede to play a more active role in solving society’s problems?

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the government

8
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Who formed the National Woman’s Party an wanted to use protests to force President Wilson to take action on suffrage?

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Alice Paul

9
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What divides a town or city into areas for commercial, residential, or other development

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Zoning

10
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Progressivism was a series or responses to problems in society that emerged from the growth in what?

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Industry

11
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Progressives wanted what kind of economic and market?

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Laissez-Faire, and unregulated

12
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Who believed industrialization and urbanization had created many social problems?

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progressives

13
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Progressives stemmed from what party?

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Democrat and Republican Party

14
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Who had a strong faith in science and technology

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Progressives

15
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Journalists who investigated social conditions and political curruption were called??

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Muckrakers

16
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Who highlighted the plight of immigrants in the book “How the Other Half LIves”

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Jacob Riis

17
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Who exposed curruption in urban political machines?

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Lincoln Steffans

18
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What were the two proposals to reform city government by progressices?

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1) Commission Plan, divided city into several departments 2)Council-Manager system

19
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What State became a model of progressive reform, and who was it led by?

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Wisconsin, Robert M. La Follete

20
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La Follete pressured the state legislature to pass a law requiring parties to hold a what?

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Direct Primary

21
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Progressives pushed for 3 reforms. What were they?

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The Referendum, The initiative, and the Recall

22
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In 1913, what ammendment was added to the constitution that had the direct election of senators?

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Seventeenth

23
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The suffrage movement was split into two groups. What was the New York based Group?

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National Woman’s Suffrage Association

24
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What was the Boston based group?

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American Woman Suffrage Association

25
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By 1900 how many states had granted women voting rights?

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Four

26
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Who left NAWSA and formed the National Woman’s Party?

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Alice Paul

27
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Who became NAWSA’s leader in 1915?

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Carrie Chapman Catt

28
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On August 26, 1920, what Amendment went into effect, that gave women voting rights?

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Nineteenth

29
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What was the most emotional progressive issue was what?

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Child Labor

30
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What were some labor laws that went into affect?

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Workers Compensation Laws, Zoning Laws, and Building and Health Codes

31
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what was the concern that alcohol explained many of society’s problems?

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Temperence

32
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The Temperance movement later moved into what?

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Prohibition