Flashcards in The Progressive Movement: All Notes From 10/20/14 Deck (104)
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________ was partly a reaction against Laissez- Faire economics and its emphasis on an unregulated market.
Progressivism
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Who believed that industrialization and urbanization had created many social problems?
Progressives
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Most progressives were ______, _____, _____-_____, Americans. (Journalists, social workers, educators, politicians, and members of the clergy.)
Urban, educated, middle-class
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What was one reason Progressives thought that they could improve society?
Their strong faith in science and technology.
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Theodore Roosevelt nicknamed crusading journalists what?
Muckrakers
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Who were journalists that uncovered abuses and corruption in a society?
Muckrakers
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__ _____ and _____ ______ _____ concentrated on exposing the unfair practices of large corporations. ( 2 people )
Ida Tarbell and Charles Edward Russell
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Who reported on vote stealing and other corrupt political practices of political machines?
Lincoln Steffens
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Who published photographs and descriptions of the poverty, disease, and crime that afflicted many immigrant neighborhoods in NYC? In what book?
Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives
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Who attacked the way political parties ran their conventions?
Robert M. La Follette
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La Follette pressured the state legislature of Wisconsin to pass a law requiring parties to hold a _______ ______.
Direct primary
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A vote held by all members of a political party to decide their candidate for public office is called a what?
Direct primary
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The ______ is the right of citizens to place a measure or issue before the voters or the legislature for approval.
Initiative
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The __________ is the practice of letting voters accept or reject measures proposed by the legislature.
Referendum
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The _____ is the right that enables voters to remove unsatisfactory elected officials from office.
Recall
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In 1913, the ___ Amendment was ratified and added to the constitution.
17th
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The 17th Amendment allows for the ______ ______ of senators.
Direct election
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Who convinced the delegates at Seneca Falls that winning suffrage for women should be a priority?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Who were threatened and called unfeminine and immoral? ( Many of the movement's supporters were abolitionists as well. )
Suffragists
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The ___ Amendment granted citizenship to African Americans.
14th
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The ___ Amendment granted voting rights to African American men.
15th
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The debate over the 14th and 15th Amendments would split the Women's Suffrage Movement into what 2 separate groups?
National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) and American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA)
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The _____ wanted to focus on passing a constitutional amendment for women's suffrage.
NWSA
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The _____ believed that the best strategy was convincing state governments to grant women the right to vote first.
AWSA
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In 1890 the 2 groups NWSA and AWSA united to form the what?
National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
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Many states began passing ________ _________ laws requiring young children to be in school instead of work.
Compulsory education
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What set minimum standards for light, air, room size, and sanitation and required buildings to have fire escapes?
Building codes
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What required restaurants and other facilities to maintain clean environments for their patrons?
Health codes
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Many Progressives blamed _________ for many of society's problems.
Alcohol
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