US HIST 106 Review ch. 1-3

Question 1

Progressives

Answer 1

• Wished to check big government
• Believed Those with ability should lead and fight corruption
• They were Reformers native born, middle class and white.

Question 2

Muckrakers

Answer 2

Writers
who made a practice
between 1903 and 1909
of exposing the
wrongdoings of public
figures and corporations
and highlighting social
and political problems.

Question 3

Muckrakers pt.2

Answer 3

• Samuel Adams –wrote “The Great
  American Fraud” in 1906
• Ida Tarbell wrote about Standard Oil
  abuses.
• Roy Baker wrote on unions & corrupt
  labor bosses.
• Lincoln Steffens –corruption in big
  business.

Question 4

Upton Sinclair

Answer 4

• Published “The Jungle” in 1906
• Exposed filthiness of meat-packing industry.
• 1904 –2 month visit to Chicago’s Packingtown area
• Original focus on worker conditions.
• Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act
  1906
• “I aimed at the public’s heart and by accident hit its
  stomach.”

Question 5

Triangle shirt waist company fire

Answer 5

• March 25 1911 –145
  workers killed
• Factory located in NYC,
  top 3 floors of 10 story
  building.
• Employed mostly young
  immigrant women.
• Terrible safety
  conditions and starvation
  wages.
• April 5 –80k protested
  for better conditions.

Question 6

Niagara movement

Answer 6

• Led by W.E.B. Du Bois.
• Pushed for
• Freedom of speech
  and criticism
• • Unsubsidized press
• Manhood suffrage
• Abolition of all caste
  distinctions
• • Belief in self dignity
    of labor.
• 1909 –NAACP formed.

Question 7

Workplace conflict

Answer 7

*Low wages and increased demands
equaled increased unrest.
*1900 - 1m belonged to union
*1920 - 5m unionized
*AFL - 1.6m members
*Unions despised by employers

Question 8

labor conflict

Answer 8

Lawrence,
Massachusetts a textile
town home to huge
woolen mills.
* Workers went on strike
against wage reduction
and called IWW for help.
* Emaciated children
walking through streets
of NYC stirred public
consciousness.
* Achieved a pay raise of
25%
* IWW capitalized on
outbreak of war.

Question 9

New urban culture

Answer 9

*1900-1920 increased middle-class lifestyle.
*Increased life expectancy but still high infant
mortality.
*City took on modern form.
*More leisure time.
*Baseball a national pastime.
*1915 “Birth of a Nation” inspired second
Klan.
*Vaudevilles(entertainment) popular.