Progressivism Quiz Flashcards
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A series of political and cultural responses to industrialization and it’s byproducts.
progressivism
What are the by-products of progressivism?
immigration
urbanization
the rise of corporate power
widening class divisions
Was progressivism more focused on urban or rural issues?
urban
Key ideas of progressivism
social problems could be fixed
science and technology made some of these problems but could fix them as well.
What group attacked social Darwinism?
intellectuals
Who proposed the public education reform?
Dewey
People who used reporting to expose problems of industrial order
muckrakers
Progressivism is generally very…
very middle class
very white
very urban
Response to progression
industrialization & urbanization
Small apartments that had only one room and were in poor parts of the city
tenements
What is a dumbbell tenement?
waste was thrown down the middle of an apartment
Man who used flash photography to EXPOSE the poor living conditions in New York.
Jacob Riis
What was the title of Jacob’s book?
“How the Other Half Lives”
who wrote “The Jungle”
Upton Sinclair
Man who exposed harsh labor conditions for immigrants working in industrial jobs.
Upton Sinclair
Rejected Booker T. Washington’s message and instead called for political power, insistence on civil rights, and supported higher education of African-American youth
DuBois
Gained support from whites in North and South because of his submission to white power. Taught industrial skills to young African Americans and DINED with Teddy Roosevelt.
Booker T. Washington
what are some examples of white backlash to reconstruction?
KKK, solid south, compromise of 1877
how did they keep blacks from voting
the literacy tests
poll tax
the grandfather clause
who tf is black?
One drop policy: if you are 1/8th black or 1/16 black then you are black!
the outcome of Plessey vs Ferguson
separate but equal
example of economic exploitation
DEBT SLAVERY
leader of national progressivism
Teddy Roosevelt
what did taft do?
pissed people off bc he was too weak
