Progressive Era

Question 1

How did Vertical Integration cut corporation costs?

Answer 1

you control all phases of production of your product to make money

Question 2

what did horizontal integration lead to?

Answer 2

Monopolies

Question 3

how did the sherman anti trust act help the american people?

Answer 3

it prevented the formation of monopolies.

Question 4

what does progressivism mean?

Answer 4

a reform movement that adressed social movements.

Question 5

what problems were caused by industrialized that led to the progressive era?

Answer 5

the income gap between men and women

Question 6

what were muckrakers?

Answer 6

reform writers who tried to expose ills of second industrial revolution.

Question 7

four muckrakers during the gilded age

Answer 7

Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Stephens and Jacob Riis

Question 8

modern day muckrakers

Answer 8

TMZ and US Weekly

Question 9

Impact of Upton Sinclair’s novel, The Jungle? what was he originally trying to expose

Answer 9

it created the pure food and drug act and the meat inspection act. he was trying to expose workplaces/

Question 10

what were the working conditons like in the sweatshops?

Answer 10

unsanitary,hazardous,long hours and low pay

Question 11

who made up most of the workforce and why these groups.

Answer 11

women,children and immigrants, they would work more for less money.

Question 12

what is the difference between unskilled and skilled workers?

Answer 12

how trained they were

Question 13

what impact did the triangle shirt waist fire have on changes in the workplace?

Answer 13

it led to workplace reform

Question 14

why did labor unions form?

Answer 14

to influence work place changes

Question 15

what was the first labor union and who did it represent?

Answer 15

Knights of Labor and represented unskilled workers

Question 16

who formed the american federation of labor? what population did it represent?

Answer 16

Samuel Gompers and it represented trade workers

Question 17

what does collective bargaining mean?

Answer 17

when one person or a small group bargains with management

Question 18

why were labor unions seen as negative?

Answer 18

the one for all mentality

Question 19

what led to the explosion of people in the cities

Answer 19

immigration and fire urbanization

Question 20

what is the tenement act of 1901?

Answer 20

outlawed construction of tenements

Question 21

which muckraker brought about reforming city life, what was the purpose of “how the other half lives”

Answer 21

Jacob Riis, to document living conditions.

Question 22

why were progressive women at the fore front of the prohibition movement?

Answer 22

they believed alcohol was the root of violence and poverty

Question 23

which two organizations lobbied for a prohibition movement?

Answer 23

The Anti Saloon League and the Women’s Christian Temperance Union

Question 24

what is the 18th amendment?

Answer 24

outlawed production and sale of alcohol

Question 25

how did people go around prohibition?

Answer 25

by making it in their homes ex: bathtub gin

Question 26

what were speakeasies?

Answer 26

illegal clubs where alcohol was sold

Question 27

what role did al capone play during prohibition (what city did he come to control)? What was al capone finally convicted of?

Answer 27

He was the head mafia began bootlegging chicago and was convicted of tax evasion

Question 28

which amendment repealed the 18th amendment?

Answer 28

21st amendment

Question 29

why was prohibition unsucessful?

Answer 29

there was a rise of organized crime and speakeasies

Question 30

what was the problem with the spoils system?

Answer 30

that people were given jobs even though they were unqualified

Question 31

what type of goverment did the patronage system create?

Answer 31

for rich by rich

Question 32

how did political machines work(what did they give in return for votes)? Who was the most notorious political machine in NYC?

Answer 32

they used rewards, the most notorious is William Marcy Tweed

Question 33

what is thomas nast’s role in bring down boss tweed?

Answer 33

he was a political cartoonist and exposed tweed’s corruption

Question 34

which suffragist tried to vote in NY in 1872 and got arrested

Answer 34

Susan B Anthony

Question 35

why did men not want women gain the right to vote?

Answer 35

they feared they would be incompetent and that it would interfere with daily duties

Question 36

who was alice paul?

Answer 36

a suffragist who broke away from NAWSA

Question 37

why did NAWSA use a state by state approach to womens sufferage? what did the NWP want?

Answer 37

it was more realistic and they wanted a constitutional amendment added

Question 38

what is the 19th amendment?

Answer 38

gave women right to vote

Question 39

what is trust busting? why did teddy roosevelt go on a trust busting campaign?

Answer 39

to dissolve a monoply, he went on this campaign so more businesses could be formed

Question 40

what is the 16th amendment?

Answer 40

allows goverment to levy a tax on income tax

Question 41

17th amendment

Answer 41

elected officials

Question 42

referendum and example

Answer 42

allow citizens to vote on proposed laws

Question 43

what group did progressives neglect in reform movement

Answer 43

african americans