What’s the Problem?
Industrialization and urban growth created these three major problems Progressives hoped to fix.
What are unsafe working conditions, overcrowded cities, and political corruption?
Journalists who exposed corruption and injustice were known by this nickname.
Who are muckrakers?
These three direct democracy tools allowed citizens to propose, vote on, and remove laws or officials.
What are initiative, referendum, and recall?
The Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) promoted this moral reform movement.
What is temperance or prohibition?
Theodore Roosevelt’s reform program promised fairness for workers, consumers, and businesses.
What is the Square Deal?
Progressives believed the government should be more __________ to citizens and protect the __________ good.
What are responsive and common (public)?
Jacob Riis shocked readers with photos of overcrowded tenements in this book.
What is How the Other Half Lives?
The 16th Amendment created this new source of federal revenue.
What is the income tax?
Name one of the two leaders who took different paths toward winning women’s suffrage. (Not Jane Addams)
Who are Alice Paul and Carrie Chapman Catt?
Roosevelt’s conservation efforts created national parks and forests to protect these.
What are natural resources or public lands?
Settlement houses like Jane Addams’ Hull House helped immigrants adjust to city life by providing these services.
What are education, childcare, and job training?
Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle exposed unsanitary conditions in this industry.
What is the meatpacking industry?
The 17th Amendment changed how U.S. senators were chosen by doing this.
What is allowing citizens to elect them directly?
Suffragists gained public sympathy after hunger strikes led to this kind of mistreatment in prison.
What is force-feeding?
This president broke more trusts than Roosevelt but lost support from Progressives over tariffs and conservation.
Who is William Howard Taft?
This 1914 law strengthened earlier antitrust efforts and, for the first time, protected labor unions from being treated as illegal combinations.
What is the Clayton Antitrust Act?
This reformer fought for child labor laws and factory inspections, often working alongside Addams.
Who is Florence Kelley?
Ida Tarbell’s History of Standard Oil revealed the abusive tactics of this type of business.
What are monopolies or trusts?
This tragedy led to public outrage and stronger workplace safety laws in New York.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
This 1920 amendment finally granted women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
Woodrow Wilson’s program to restore competition and limit corporate power was known as this.
What is the New Freedom?
Overall, Progressivism sought to balance individual freedom with this new role for government.
What is an active role in solving social and economic problems?
Muckrakers influenced government to pass laws like these two that improved consumer safety.
What are the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act?
Progressives believed these reforms would weaken political machines and make officials more accountable.
What are direct democracy reforms?
Women’s activism in the Progressive Era reflected this larger democratic goal of reform.
What is expanding political participation/equality?
The Republican split between Roosevelt and Taft in 1912 allowed this Democrat to win the presidency.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?