Potpourri
Journalists who wrote about the corrupt side of business and public life in mass circulation magazines during the early 20th century.
Who are muckrakers
African American civil right activist who believed that racism would end gradually once blacks acquired useful labor skills and proved their economic value to society. Founded the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute.
Who is Booker T. Washington
This movement of middle-class reformers aimed to restore economic opportunities and correct injustices that had contributed to the social upheavals of the 1890’s.
What is the progressive movement
Supreme Court ruling that the separation of races in public accommodations was legal and did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment. Established doctrine of “separate but equal”.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
Considered the first modern president, this president used the Square Deal to increase government regulation of businesses, and break up bad trusts.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt
A bill originating by the people rather than lawmakers on the ballot
What is initiative
African American civil rights activist who proposed that a group of liberal arts educated African-Americans attempt to achieve immediate inclusion into mainstream American life. Founded the NAACP.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois
This goal of progressivism saw reformers such as the Social Gospel, settlement house movement, YMCA, and Florence Kelley work to soften some of the harsh conditions of industrialization.
What is Protecting Social Welfare
An annual tax that had to be paid before qualifying to vote.
What is a poll tax
A professional conservationist appointed head of the U.S. Forest Service by Teddy Roosevelt, who advocated exemping large tracts of federal land from private sale, but was later fired by Taft.
Who is Gifford Pinchot
A prominent woman who advocated for women’s suffrage.
Who is Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Carrie Chapman Catt
This group engaged in grueling railroad labor in the Southwest for less money than other ethnic groups.
Who are Mexican workers
This goal of progressivism saw reformers like the Women’s Christian Temperance Union and Anti-Saloon League work to improve the lives of poor people through advocating prohibition and self improvement of personal behavior.
What is Promoting Moral Improvement
Laws to separate white and black people in public and private facilities.
What is segregation
This president pursued a cautiously progressive agenda, angering his supports through moderate tariffs and letting commercial interests exploit the natural resources that rightfully belonged to the public
Who is William Howard Taft
The three-part strategy for suffrage
What is to convince state legislatures, test the Fourteenth Amendment, and push for a national amendment.
White people’s fear of job competition often pushed these people into segregated schools and neighborhoods, and led to an exclusion act.
Who are the Chinese
Following a severe economic panic in 1893, this goal of progressivism saw reformers like Eugene V. Debs and journalist muckrakers question the capitalist economic system.
What is Creating Economic Reform
A clause stating that even if a man failed the literacy or could not afford the poll tax, he was still entitled to vote if he, his father, or his grandfather had been eligible to vote before January 1, 1867.
What is the grandfather clause
This “New Freedom” president believed in attacking large concentrations of power to give greater freedom to average citizens.
Who is Woodrow Wilson
1919 amendment giving women the right to vote.
What is the Nineteenth Amendment
This group lost land, getting pushed farther and farther west, was denied citizenship, and had the Ghost Dance banned from fear of violent rebellion.
Who are Native Americans
A goal of progressivism championed by Henry Ford and Frederick Winslow Taylor that puts faith in experts and scientific principles to make society and the workplace more efficient.
What is Fostering Efficiency
Informal rules and customs that regulated relationships between whites and blacks, belittling and humiliating African Americans.
What is racial etiquette
These progressive presidents retreated on civil rights promises once in office.
Who are Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson.