Reformers
This African American pushed education and told his people to remain calm and not fight: Founded Tuskegee institute
Booker T Washington
Trace the progress of the women's suffrage movement, how was suffrage eventually accomplished?
women took jobs in work place and integrating into society and failed until after they took over men's jobs when hey went to war in WWI.
Identify the characteristics of the 3 progressive presidents (political party, background, years in office)
Roosevelt
Taft
Wilson
What changes did Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle bring about?
Changes in the food packing industry, Pure Food and Drug Act, Meat Inspection Act (TR)
List an describe the constitutional amendments enacted during the Progressive Era
16,17,18,19
Graduated income tax, direct election of senators, banned manufactured and sale of alcohol, women vote
Fought against discrimination and founded NAACP in quest for racial justice
W.E.B. DuBois
What was the settlement house and how did it link women to progressive activity?
Built by Jane Addams-Housed immigrants
How was the 1902 coal worker strike dealt with by T.Roosevelt? How did this reflect progressive values?
TR sided with the workers for once. first time gov't didnt side with business
Wrote about how the other half lives,
Jacob Riis
What were the general beliefs of philosophies embraced by the progressives?
Government is good, overrule corrupt leaders, social gospel. improve surrounding of people to get them more involved in religion.
He helped rid the power of the Wisconsin Political Machine: Wisconsin Plan: Direct election of senators, utility socialism
Robert M. LaFollette
What was the equal right amendment?
proposed legislation for women's rights. eventually passed as 19th amendment.
What did T. Roosevelt believe the federal government should do with the powerful trusts?
thought they should bust the trusts using Sherman Anti-Trust Act
History of standard oil and the wrong-doings of Rockefeller
Ida Tarbell
What role did Muckrakers have in the progressive era
Upton Sinclair, Jacob Riis, Ida Tarbell
Main Tariff, lowered the rate during Wilson's presidency
Underwood-Simmons Tariff
Was an American suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement.
Elizabeth Stanton
How did Wilson's beliefs about trusts change from his campaign in 1912 to his presidency?
Get rid of trusts, but realized their potential. Clayton Anti-Trust Act. Helped workers
What did the Clayton Anti-Trust Act do?
specifies legal business practices, strengthens gov't ability to break monopolies, punished individuals instead of whole, allows collective bargaining, bans injunctions
city reform-initiatives, referendums, recalls. Tomas Nasts political cartoons
How did the following individuals promote progressive reforms?
Jane Addams, John Muir, Eugene Debs
Her writings exposed and condemned the inequalities and injustices that were so common in the Jim Crow South: disfranchisement, segregation, lack of educational and economic opportunity for African-Americans, and especially the arbitrary violence
Ida B Wells
Assess William Howard Taft as a "progressive"
he was originally planning on being like TR but wound up being conservative and busted alot of trusts. He wanted everything he did to be strictly legal.
What was the Payne-Aldridge Act?
Tariff passed by Taft, angered Progressives because tariffs reduces more foreign competition which helps big business.
What changes in municipal government occurred during the Progressive Era?
started siding with unions, try to help problems of wealthy having too much money