Progressivism
What was the central goal of the Progressive Movement?
To use government power to address social, political, and economic problems caused by industrialization and urbanization
These political organizations took control of state and city governments by promising supports and services for immigrants in exchange for their votes
Political Machines
This amendment gave women the right to vote
Nineteenth Amendment
This President was nicknamed the "trustbuster" for his actions in breaking up monopolies and trusts
Theodore Roosevelt
This group was the main demographic of the Populist Movement
farmers
These journalists exposed corruption and social injustice during the Progressive Era
Muckrakers
The term for the process of populations shifting from rural to urban
Urbanization
This law gave the government the power to break up trusts and monopolies that limit interstate trade
Sherman Anti-Trust
Continuing the legacy of trustbusting and expanding the United States' foreign power with "Dollar Diplomacy," this President is the only to have served as Chief Executive and Chief Justice
William Howard Taft
This instance of government intervention sought to protect the farmers and small merchants from discriminatory policies by the railroads
Interstate Commerce Act
This man wrote The Jungle which exposed the meatpacking industry in Chicago
Upton Sinclair
This woman established the early social work Settlement House movement that helped immigrants in cities
Jane Addams
These progressive reforms helped bring an end to the employment of children under a legal working age at the end of the Progressive Era
Child Labor Laws
Roosevelt's key public policy program centered on the three C's
William Jennings Bryan
What did Progressives believe was necessary to preserve democracy in an industrial society?
Active government intervention and reform
How did "new" immigrants differ from earlier groups of immigrants
They came mostly from Southern and Eastern Europe (Italy, Poland, etc.) rather than Northern and Western Europe
Name one of the two laws that directly resulted from publication of The Jungle
Pure Food and Drug Act or Meat Inspection Act
How did Theodore Roosevelt become President?
William McKinley's assassination
The official name of the Populist Party
The People's Party
What groups of Americans led Progressive reform efforts?
Middle-class, journalists, religious leaders, women!!
This was the first settlement house in the United States that inspired the establishment of hundreds more across the country
Hull House
This feminist and suffragette was on of the leading proponents of successfully lobbying for women's voting rights
Susan B. Anthony
The name of Woodrow Wilson's reform package targeting changes to tariff, banking, and labor policies
New Freedom
This populist demand merged with Progressive reform leading to the creation of the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) to collect them
Graduated (Progressive) Income Tax