Progressively Progressive
a period of widespread social activism and political reform from1890 1920 that addressed problems caused by industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and political corruption.
What is the Progressive Movement?
An agrarian-based political movement aimed at improving economic conditions for the country's farmers and agrarian workers.
What is the Populist Movement?
The name of the main immigration center on the East Coast in the late 1800s/early 1900s.
What is Ellis Island?
Workers' organizations who organize to advocate for higher wages, better working conditions, and more benefits.
What are labor unions?
This amendment granted American women the right to vote, a right known as women's suffrage.
What is the 19th Amendment?
The first President to intervene on behalf of the laborers during a strike (1902).
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
This muckraker exposed the disgsuting conditions of the meat packing facilities of the late 1800s in a book titled, The Jungle.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
The first organization, which worked on the local level, that promoted the importance of farmers and sought for better economic conditions for agrarian workers.
What is The Grange?
This act, passed in 1882, severely restricted immigration from China to the USA.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
This John D Rockefeller monopolized the oil industry in America by acquiring as many oil refineries as he could. This practice is known as _______ integration.
What is vertical integration?
The 18th amendment, which prohibited the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages for consumption, is also referred to as
What is Prohibition?
The statute that was used by Roosevelt and Taft to prohibit monopolies or unreasonable combinations of companies that interfered with interstate commerce (business and trade).
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
President Teddy Roosevelt's name for his domestic progressive program which aimed to treat everyone fairly.
What is the Square Deal?
This Democratic candidate represented Populist viewpoints in the election of 1896.
Who is William Jennings Bryant?
This social gospel reformer created a settlement house, called Hull House, in one of Chicago's immigrant neighborhoods.
Who was Jane Addams?
A local political group with an authoritative boss who commands support through political graft, by providing political favors, and through bribery.
What is a political machine?
This amendment established the popular election of United States senators by the people of the states.
What is the 17th Amendment?
The name of Woodrow Wilson's domestic progressive program.
What is the New Freedom?
This progressive movement was in response to the gruesome persecution of African-Americans in the South who dared to challenge the authority of white supremacists.
The anti-lynching movement.
The monetary standard in which silver AND gold are used to back the nation's currency.
What is bimetallism?
The policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.
What is nativism?
Andrew Carnegie's book that promoted philanthropy and the responsibility of the wealthy to support the poor.
What is The Gospel of Wealth?
This amendment instituted a federal graduated income tax on all Americans.
What is the 16th Amendment?
Teddy Roosevelts 3 C's.
What are Conservation, Control of Corporations, and Consumer Protection?
Three means by which the people may bring their will to bear directly on the legislative process and the machinery of government.
What is initiative, referendum, and recall?
The populists wanted to reintroduce silver to increase the money supply and have this effect on the economy.
What is inflation OR decreasing the value of the dollar?
This famous muckraker exposed the living conditions of the urban poor through photos and his book, How the Other Half Lives.
Who is Jacob Riis?
Political unrest, poverty, religious persecution, and famine are all examples of this factor which relates to the country from which a person migrates.
What is a push factor?
This amendment was criticized by suffragettes because it did not provide suffrage to women.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This tariff helped to define Taft as being weak on Progressive policies and too willing to compromise with the Conservative agenda.
What is the Payne-Aldrich Tariff?