Exam 1 pt5 Flashcards
(32 cards)
Government Responsibilities are posting office - mail, nation military, Foreign Policy, and Tariffs and taxes. But the government was only major social concern the federal government was what?
Post office
What does progressive mean?
Trying to better the environment.
What were the progressive’s agenda?
Change the environment that Americans live in.
Apartment complexes built in major cities and are much improved in their designs and are popular are called?
Settlement Houses
What kind of house was created for immigrants and minorities?
Hull house
Who created hull houses?
Jane Addams
Who are the 4 investigation journalists called? / Who did they earn the name from?
Muckrakers/ Theodore Roosevelt
Who investigated JD Rockefeller Standard Oil company?
Ida Tarbell
Who created “Shame of The Cities” and talks about sanitation problems and cities invest in sewer systems constructed in cities?
Lincoln Steffen
Who tries to bring attention to lynching in the south and the problem with African Americans abused in southern areas?
Ida B Wells
Who starts exposing problems in tenements with “The Other Half Lives” ?
Jacob Riis
What did “ The Other Half Lives” book helps Jane Addams do?
Help establish her Settlement houses.
Who decide that there needs to be organizations to monitor how people get degrees?
Average Americans
Who sets the criteria of how you become a doctor in the United States?
American Medical Associates
What are scam institutions where you don’t have to work hard to get a degree called?
Quack Schools
What do you have to do for the Professional Bar Association?
You must pass lots of bar exams If you want to be a lawyer.
What association mandates you must have a master, bachelor, and doctorate to teach. You must get an A.
American Historical Association
Where was a nationwide women movement rise? Who was it led by?
Wyoming/ Anna Howard Shaw and Carrie Chapman Catt
What war helped move the national American women suffrage?
WW1
Who signed the 19th amendment into the constitution and what is this amendment?
Woodro Wilson/ Women right to vote.
Who and what state was the last that made the 19th amendment go through?
Harry Burns / Tennessee
Who is the first progressive governor in the United States and becomes governor of Wisconsin?
Robert LaFollette
He transforms Wisconsin into a progressive experiment and fight back against large capitalist and see if he could make Wisconsin what?
” Laboratory of progressive”
Why does Robert tax the railroad company property?
When you tax the property, it will be a higher tax and if they can’t pay, they lose the land.
