Progressive Reforms

Question 1

Progressive Era

Answer 1

Progressives wanted to fix problems in society improve working conditions, end poverty homeless, equality for women, regulate business, break up monopolies

Question 2

Political Machines

Answer 2

Organizations linked to political parties that controlled local governments

Question 3

Patronage

(Spoil System)

Answer 3

giving government jobs to friends and political supporters

Question 4

James Garfield

Answer 4

Garfield was assassinated by someone who wanted a job through the spoil system

Question 5

What was important about

Chester A. Arthur

Answer 5

Tried to end the Spoil System advocated for the Pendleton Act

Question 6

Pendleton Act

Answer 6

Set up competitive exams for federal jobs

Question 7

Muckrakers

Answer 7

writers who exposed problems caused by business and government

Question 8

Upton Sinclair

Answer 8

written by Upton Sinclair – exposed the meat packing industry The Jungle

Question 9

Jacob Riis

Answer 9

Wrote “how the other half lives” exposed poor living and working conditions

Question 10

Pure Food and Drug Act

Answer 10

Required labeling of food and medicine

Question 11

Suffragists

Answer 11

Worked for the right to vote

Question 12

Alice Paul

Carrie Chapman Catt

Answer 12

Suffragists fought for the 19th Amendment

Question 13

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Answer 13

worked for Women’s Suffrage(right to vote)

Question 14

19th Amendment

Answer 14

woman’s suffrage right to Vote

Question 15

Why was Teddy Roosevelt

known as the Trustbuster?

Answer 15

Broke up monopolies

Question 16

The Square Deal

Answer 16

supported progressivism and the growth of business

Question 17

Progressive Party/Bull Moose

Party

Answer 17

Roosevelts Progressive Party of 191

Question 18

Sherman Anti Trust Act

Answer 18

Law used to break up monopolies