Causes of Progressivism
This era before the Progressive Era was marked by corruption and large monopolies.
What is The Gilded Age?
This amendment allowed people to directly elect U.S. Senators.
What is the 17th Amendment?
Journalists who exposed corruption and social problems were called THIS.
What are Muckrakers?
This was Roosevelt’s domestic reform program promising fairness for Americans.
What is The Square Deal?
The right to vote is also known as THIS.
What is suffrage?
A tragic event in 1911 that revealed unsafe factory conditions and helped spark labor reform.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
A vote by the public to approve or reject a proposed law is known as this reform.
What is a Referendum?
He exposed the filthy conditions in the meatpacking industry in The Jungle.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
This was the nickname for Roosevelt because he broke up monopolies.
What is the “Trust Buster”?
This amendment (1920) finally granted women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
Among the main goals of the Progressive movement were to make government more democratic, regulate big business, and protect THESE TWO vulnerable groups.
Who are Workers and Consumers?
Reform that allows voters to remove a corrupt politician from office mid-term.
What is a Recall?
He worked with John Muir to preserve Yosemite and other natural areas.
Who is Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt?
Roosevelt helped end this 1902 strike by siding with workers instead of owners.
What is the Coal Strike of 1902?
This 1848 gathering launched the organized women’s rights movement.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
Progressives believed solving problems required a bigger, more active version of this institution.
What is The Federal Government?
Reform that lets citizens propose their own laws directly.
What is an Initiative?
She investigated and exposed the unfair practices of Standard Oil.
Who is Ida Tarbell?
This law allowed Roosevelt to create national monuments and protect natural lands.
What is the Antiquities Act?
These protestors stood silently outside the White House demanding voting rights.
Who were the Silent Sentinels?
Many Progressives were part of this growing class of Americans who had education and money but wanted to use it for reform.
What is the Middle Class?
This amendment created the federal income tax allowing the government to fund progressive reforms.
What is the 16th Amendment?
She founded Hull House to help immigrants in Chicago.
Who is Jane Addams?
Roosevelt's three “C’s” of the Square Deal stood for THIS.
What is Control of Corporations, Consumer Protection, and Conservation?
This was the more radical suffrage organization led by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns.
What was the National Woman’s Party (NWP)?