Origins of Progressivism
Goals of Progressivism
Women in Public Life
Women and Reform
Vocabulary
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This young woman was scalped at a young age, and later testified against labor conditions.
Camella Teoli
100
These groups feared that alcohol was undermining American morals.
Prohibitionists
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Women contributed to the economic survival of their families by...
Doing domestic work, such as cleaning for other families
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A leading proponent of woman suffrage
Susan B. Anthony
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Enabled voters to remove public officials from elected positions by forcing them to face another election before the end of their term if enough voters asked for it.
Recall
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Why did 20,000 Lawrence mill workers go on strike?
For higher wages
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This man helped organize the American Socialist party in 1901.
Eugene V. Debs
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What percent of employed women in the 1870s worked as servants?
Roughly 70%
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Founded by African American women in 1896
National Association of Colored Women (NACW)
200
Put more power in the hands of party bosses and wealthy corporation heads.
The Seventeenth Amendment
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For how long were the mill workers on strike?
Nine weeks
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The general secretary of the National Consumer's League
Florence Kelley
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Claimed about half of all women industrial workers...
The garment trade
300
The NACW managed..
Nurseries, reading rooms, and kindergartens
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The right to vote
Suffrage
400
This act prohibited the transportation across state lines of goods produced with child labor.
Keating-Owen Act
400
The Anti-Saloon League was founded in...
1895
400
Allowed individual Native Americans to claim reservation land and citizenship rights
the Dawes Act of 1887
400
Women's "social housekeeping" targeted...
Workplace reform, housing reform, educational improvement, and food and drug laws.
400
Journalists who wrote about the corrupt side of business and public life in mass circulation magazines during the early 20th century
Muckrakers
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What year did Minnesota pass the first mandatory statewide primary system?
1899
500
Virginia, Florida and Texas government reforms had THIS in common,
They split the powers of government into different people.
500
Women replaced men as telephone operators because...
Men proved unsatisfactory
500
The liquor industry feared...
Women would vote in support of prohibition
500
Aimed to restore economic opportunities and correct injustices in American life.
Progressive movement