The Progressive Movement: All Notes From 10/20/14 Flashcards
(104 cards)
________ was partly a reaction against Laissez- Faire economics and its emphasis on an unregulated market.
Progressivism
Who believed that industrialization and urbanization had created many social problems?
Progressives
Most progressives were ______, _____, _____-_____, Americans. (Journalists, social workers, educators, politicians, and members of the clergy.)
Urban, educated, middle-class
What was one reason Progressives thought that they could improve society?
Their strong faith in science and technology.
Theodore Roosevelt nicknamed crusading journalists what?
Muckrakers
Who were journalists that uncovered abuses and corruption in a society?
Muckrakers
__ _____ and _____ ______ _____ concentrated on exposing the unfair practices of large corporations. ( 2 people )
Ida Tarbell and Charles Edward Russell
Who reported on vote stealing and other corrupt political practices of political machines?
Lincoln Steffens
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
Who attacked the way political parties ran their conventions?
Robert M. La Follette
La Follette pressured the state legislature of Wisconsin to pass a law requiring parties to hold a _______ ______.
Direct primary
A vote held by all members of a political party to decide their candidate for public office is called a what?
Direct primary
The ______ is the right of citizens to place a measure or issue before the voters or the legislature for approval.
Initiative
The __________ is the practice of letting voters accept or reject measures proposed by the legislature.
Referendum
The _____ is the right that enables voters to remove unsatisfactory elected officials from office.
Recall
In 1913, the ___ Amendment was ratified and added to the constitution.
17th
The 17th Amendment allows for the ______ ______ of senators.
Direct election
Who convinced the delegates at Seneca Falls that winning suffrage for women should be a priority?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Who were threatened and called unfeminine and immoral? ( Many of the movement’s supporters were abolitionists as well. )
Suffragists
The ___ Amendment granted citizenship to African Americans.
14th
The ___ Amendment granted voting rights to African American men.
15th
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)
The _____ wanted to focus on passing a constitutional amendment for women’s suffrage.
NWSA
The _____ believed that the best strategy was convincing state governments to grant women the right to vote first.
AWSA
