The Progressive Movement
The two main causes of the progressive movement.
What are industrialization and urbanization?
This book by Upton Sinclair highlighted the unsafe and unsanitary conditions of the meat-packing industry.
What is The Jungle?
Margaret Sanger was a proponent of this unfortunate practice; one that grew out of Social Darwinism.
What is eugenics?
Executing someone without the approval of a legal trial.
What is lynching?
The belief that Western civilizations had a responsibility to impose their idea of civilization onto non-white nations.
What is the White Man's Burden?
Investigative journalists who highlighted problems in society.
Who are muckrakers?
This group fought for the prohibition of alcohol through often radical means.
What is the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)?
The belief among women that a woman's place was in the home, not the workforce.
What is the cult of domesticity?
These laws in the South separated black and white Americans in nearly all aspects of society.
What are Jim Crow laws?
The ship whose destruction justified the invasion of Cuba and the beginning of the Spanish-American War.
What is the U.S.S. Maine?
The three areas of reform of the progressive movement.
What are political, economic, and social areas of reform?
Jacob Riis's book that exposed the issues of rapid urbanization through photography.
What is How the Other Half Lives?
The 3-part strategy to women's suffrage.
What is state suffrage, the 14th amendment, and constitutional amendment.
Co-founded the NAACP.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
America's biggest problem after acquiring multiple territories through the Treaty of 1898.
What is geography (America had no direct line of trade between Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines)?
The Protestant version of civic responsibility during the progressive movement.
What is the Social Gospel?
Frederick Winslow Taylor popularized this ideology in the business world that increased efficiency among workers.
What is scientific management?
Moderate progressive women practiced this form of civic responsibility.
What is social housekeeping?
Founded the Tuskegee Institute.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
The agreement that gave Cuba its independence and made Puerto Rico and Guam territories of the United States.
What is the Treaty of Paris of 1898?
Using knowledge and/or reason to find practical solutions to problems in society.
What is pragmatism?
This reform of the progressive movement allows voters to petition for laws through the ballot.
What is initiative?
The book and chapter of the Bible that the cult of domesticity is based upon.
What is Proverbs 31?
Woodrow Wilson had a private viewing of this film at the White House.
What is The Birth of a Nation?
Theodore Roosevelt's model for diplomacy. "Speak softly..."
What is "...and carry a big stick" or Big Stick Diplomacy.