Amendments
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
What is the 16th Amendment?
Known as the Great Conservationist.
Who was Theodore/Teddy Roosevelt?
Even the poorest can be made to see this, and to agree that great sums gathered by some of their fellow-citizens and spent for public purposes, from which the masses reap the principal benefit, are more valuable to them than if scattered among them through the course of many years in trifling amounts. “The Gospel of Wealth” by Andrew Carnegie, 1889
Which principle summarizes Carnegie’s philosophy as expressed in the excerpt?
A Investment income should be used to support charities.
B Wealth should be reinvested into expansive public works.
C Venture capital should be provided to entrepreneurs.
D Business profits should be taxed at higher rates.
B Wealth should be reinvested into expansive public works.
This African American journalist and activist led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s and wrote about issues of race and politics in the South. A number of her articles were published in black newspapers and periodicals under the moniker "Iola." She eventually became an owner of the Memphis Free Speech and Headlight, and, later, of the Free Speech.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
This organization was created on September 26, 1914 when President Woodrow Wilson signed it into law. This organization opened its doors on March 16, 1915. It's mission is to protect consumers and promote competition among enterprises.
What is the FTC (Federal Trade Commission)?
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
What is the 19th Amendment?
His progressive policies included the Square Deal, the Elkins and Hepburn Acts, and the Pure Food and Drug and the Meat Inspection Acts.
Who was Theodore/Teddy Roosevelt?
In 1906, Upton Sinclair wrote the novel The Jungle, which was based on the living and working conditions of immigrants. Sinclair focused on workers’ low wages as well as the unsanitary meatpacking conditions present in many of America′s factories. In 1906, partly due to The Jungle, Congress passed the Meat Inspection Act. How did Upton Sinclair’s novel, The Jungle, influence the role of the federal government?
A The federal government outlawed unsafe working conditions in factories.
B The federal government lost its power to regulate interstate affairs.
C The federal government began regulating the food industry.
D The federal government established labor unions.
C The federal government began regulating the food industry.
This American lawyer, politician and progressive reformer represented Wisconsin in both chambers of Congress and served as the Governor of Wisconsin. A Republican for most of his career, he instituted the direct primary, backed labor legislation and supported conservation.
Who is Robert La Follette?
A Progressive Era initiated process that enabled citizens to bypass their state legislature by placing proposed statutes and, in some states, constitutional amendments on the ballot.
What is initiative?
Section 1.
After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.
What is the 18th Amendment?
President from 1909 until 1913, this man turned out not to be as progressive as Roosevelt and the Republican Party hoped. While he worked hard to reform problematic issues in the United States, he didn't provide as much support to conservation efforts as Roosevelt. He also signed a bill that included raising tariffs on almost everything, despite Congress' and the American people's concerns that tariffs were already too high.
Who was William Howard Taft?
These young people . . . have been shut off from the common labor . . . which is a great source of moral and physical health. They feel a fatal want of harmony between their theory and their lives, a lack of coordination between thought and action. I think it is hard for us to realize how seriously many of them are taking to the notion of human brotherhood, how eagerly they long to give tangible expression to the democratic ideal. These young men and women, longing to socialize their democracy, are animated by certain hopes . . . that if in a democratic country nothing can be permanently achieved save through the masses of the people, it will be impossible to establish a higher political life than the people themselves crave; . . . that the blessings which we associate with a life of refinement and cultivation can be made universal and must be made universal if they are to be permanent; that the good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain, is floating in midair, until it is secured for all of us. . . . There is something primordial about these motives. . . . Nothing so deadens the sympathies and shrivels the power of enjoyment as the persistent keeping away from the great opportunities for helpfulness and a continual ignoring of the starvation struggle which makes up the life of at least half the race. To shut one’s self away from that half of the race life is to shut one’s self away from the most vital part of it; it is to live out but half the humanity to which we have been born heir and to use but half our faculties. We have all had longings for a fuller life which should include the use of these faculties. Twenty Years at Hull House by Jane Addams, 1910
Which statement expresses Jane Addams′s stated motive for founding Hull House in the late 1800s?
A Providing immigrants with social services in health, education, and safety would improve society.
B Providing immigrants with permanent housing and jobs would boost the economy of Chicago.
C Providing immigrants small plots of land would enable them to grow their own food.
D Providing immigrants with settlement houses would improve neighborhoods.
A Providing immigrants with social services in health, education, and safety would improve society.
This progressive acquired particular fame for his classic muck-raking novel The Jungle, which exposed labor and sanitary conditions in the U.S. meatpacking industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
Significant pieces of legislation passed during the Progressive Era that gave federal government power to regulated city businesses.
What are municipal reforms?
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each state, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each state shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the state legislatures.
When vacancies happen in the representation of any state in the Senate, the executive authority of such state shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided, that the legislature of any state may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct.
What is the 17th Amendment?
Who was William Jennings Bryan?
Following the end of Reconstruction, African-American people living in the South became increasingly disillusioned as they faced new Jim Crow laws, poor economic opportunities, and outright violence. Increasingly, African Americans moved to the North and West. In the 1920s alone, over 750,000 African Americans moved out of the South.
How did their migration change the politics of the United States?
A African Americans no longer faced racism.
B African Americans voted in increasing numbers.
C African Americans dominated the Democratic Party.
D African Americans were not discriminated against politically.
B African Americans voted in increasing numbers.
While living in New York, this muckraker experienced poverty and became a police reporter writing about the quality of life in the slums. He attempted to alleviate the bad living conditions of poor people by exposing their living conditions to the middle and upper classes through writing and photography.
Who is Jacob Riis?
A general term which refers to a measure that appears on the ballot. There are two primary types of referenda: the legislative ________, whereby the Legislature refers a measure to the voters for their approval, and the popular _______, a measure that appears on the ballot as a result of a voter petition drive. The popular ________ is similar to the initiative in that both are triggered by petitions, but there are important differences. The initiative is first and this is second.
What is referendum?
Section 1.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
What is the 14th Amendment?
His progressive policies included lowering tariffs, creating the Federal Reserve System, establishing the Federal Trade Commission and setting child labor laws.
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures.
Excerpt from the Seventeenth Amendment, 1913 How was the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment a success for Progressive reformers who tried to reduce political corruption?
A The right to vote was now extended to young men at the age of eighteen.
B Congress created a system for supporting monopolies.
C The power to elect both houses of Congress was now in the hands of the people.
D State governors now had the power to appoint Senators to office in Congress until a special election could be held.
D State governors now had the power to appoint Senators to office in Congress until a special election could be held.
American settlement activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, public administrator and author. She was a notable figure in the history of social work and women's suffrage in the United States and an advocate for world peace. She co-founded Chicago's Hull House, one of America's most famous settlement houses.
Who is Jane Adamms?
A shortlived federal law that imposed restrictions on child labor. The act eliminated or restricted employment for approximately a quarter of a million children.
The act forbade the transportation among states of products of factories, shops or canneries employing children less than 14 years of age, of mines employing children under 16 years of age, and the products of any of these employing children under 16 who worked at night or more than eight hours a day.
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A landmark U.S. legislation establishing the tradition and mechanism of permanent federal employment based on merit rather than on political party affiliation (the spoils system).
What is the Keating-Owen Act Law?
What is the Pendleton-Service Act?