Progressive Reforms
The title given to the representative of the political machine in a certain city/town.
Who is the "boss"?
This plan only required only 10% of each southern state to swear loyalty to the Union.
What is Lincoln's 10% Plan?
This person eventually controlled most of the oil industry in the early 1900s.
Who is Rockefeller?
2 reasons railroads were preferred over stage coaches.
What are that they were faster and could carry heavier objects?
The honorary term given to Roosevelt.
What is trustbuster?
The reason Wilson was more successful at lowering tariffs than Taft.
What is he was able to get Congress to vote and pass it?
The number of districts the 10 Southern states were broken into.
What is 10?
This person started telegraph operator.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
The town that the Union Pacific and Central Pacific lines were joined.
What is Promontory Point, Utah?
What government service did Taft try to use to remove the political machines influence.
What is the civil service?
This Amendment provided for the direct election of senators.
What is the 17th Amendment?
This group burned churches, homes, and beat up people while traveling.
Who were the K.K.K.?
The main problem with the Sherman Antitrust Act.
The term for "corporation" was not clearly defined so it could not be used against corporations successfully?
This trail carried more than 5 million cattle North.
What is the Goodnight-Loving Trail?
True or False: Taft and Wilson were in favor of lowering tariffs.
What is True?
The goal of the Pendleton Act.
What is applicants had to demonstrate their abilities in this examination. By 1900, the commission controlled the Hiring of many federal employees.
The purpose of the Freedman's Bureau.
What are
1. provided food clothing, medical care for poor Southerners, especially those that were free
2. set up school staffed with Northern teachers
3. helped people buy their own land to farm
Some ways Carnegie gives back to the community.
What are...
1. He established 2,000 libraries worldwide
2. Established the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
How did the Farmers Alliance prevent farmers from having to take out large interests loans.
What is the farmers would have the government hold their crops in government warehouses. As they sold their crops, the farmers would pay off the storage fee directly to the government avoiding taking out interests loans from the banks?
This act required the railroads to charge "reasonable rates" and publish those rates.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887?
Ways that bosses got votes for their political machine candidates.
What is...
1. They accepted bribes from tenement landlords in return for overlooking violations of city housing codes
2. They received contributions from contractors hoping to do business with the city
3. They accepted kickbacks
Some important changes as a result of reconstruction.
What are taxation was more equitable and the 15th Amendment?
2 hazards that workers faced while working in the mines and sewing factories.
What are cave-ins and low lighting conditions?
The three traditional roles of women in Native American society.
What are raising children, cooking, and prepared hides?
The 2 reasons by those who opposed women's suffrage.
What are that it would upset the "natural balance" of society and would lead to divorce and neglected children?