Progressive Era
The goals of all progressives or reformers:
Make positive changes in society for the average American
The Progressive Movement was primarily a response to problems created by
What is Industrialization, the power of Big Business and Political Corruption
I was known as The Progressive President
What is Teddy Roosevelt
Upton Sinclair wrote this book to expose the terrible conditions of the meat packing industry?
What is The Jungle?
This famous fire led to public outrage and the creation of laws to address workplace safety and conditions
What was the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire?
In response to large numbers of federal jobs being given to family or friends, this test or Act was created for people who wanted government jobs
What is The Civil Service Commission or Civil Service Exam. Also known as the Pendelton Act
If I believe that Alcoholic beverages are bad what movement am I a part of or what amendment did I want passed?
What is The Temperance Movement or the 18th Amendment
Jacob Riis took photographs and wrote the Book "How the Other Half Lives" to try and create changes in
Living Conditions/Urban Reform
She fought for causes that liberated women?
Who is Elizabeth Candy Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
What is the purpose of the 16th Amendment?
What is to create a national income tax (to make up for lost revenue from tariffs)
Besides Theodore Roosevelt, name one other Progressive President.
Woodrow Wilson
William Howard Taft
Chester Arthur
Rutherford B. Hayes
Daily Double!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What did the ,18th, and 19th Amendment do? Which groups favored the 18th amendment and why? Provide one reason.
One issue during this time was corruption in politics. These were groups that ran cities by bribing voters and using legal and illegal methods to take power even if they were not directly elected officials.
What were political machines?
These two men both wanted to improve the lives of African Americans at the time but had very different ways of achieving this
Who were Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois?
Outrage over the Jungle led to the passage of this law while Teddy Roosevelt was president?
What is The Pure Food and Drug Act?
Teddy Roosevelt wanted to put regulations on businesses to help protect that average American from corporate abuses. What are regulations?
Government laws
The Progressive Era is also called......because it was like the country was covered in gold (successful businesses) but everyone underneath was suffering.
What is The Gilded Age
Ida Tarbell was not afraid to fight this powerful businessman through articles and books that exposed how he was always an unfair competitor and focused on his creation of monopolies.
Who was John D. Rockefeller ?
What are...
-The door was locked from the outside?
-The fire department's ladders did not reach high enough?
-The elevator stopped working?
-There were no fire escapes or extinguishers?
What was the cause of the Conservation movement during the Progressive Era?
What is the destruction of natural resources/protecting our natural resources
What were two laws or ideas that Roosevelt wanted to help protect the public or the environment?
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act
Conservation
The Meat Inspection Act