Gilded Age Problems, Progressive Goals
What happened in the Triangle Shirtwaist factory that led to greater demand for workplace safety laws?
A fire. Killed a buncha girls. 146. Immigrants, a lot of them. Not that that makes it worse. A life is a life, it's not like it's worse because they were immigrant. If it's an immigrant it's just as tragic as if it weren't, right? Now the other thing is that a lot of them were young. Now that does make it more tragic, I think.
Which muckraker's works led to the passage of consumer protection laws like the Meat Inspection Act?
Upton Sinclair (The Jungle)
What was Theodore Roosevelt's most lasting Progressive achievement in terms of nature conservation?
The establishment of the National Park Service
Name 3 ways in which the United States become more democratic in the Progressive Era. I.e., what things gave more power to the people?
The Referendum
The Initiative
The Recall
City commissioner/manager system
Direct election of senators (17th amendment)
Women's Suffrage (19th amendment)
Primary elections
One criticism of the Progressive Movement that historians have made is that it was a movement by a particular group of people, for a particular group of people. What is this particular group of people?
The white middle class.
What was the name of the political machine based in New York, led by Boss Tweed?
Tammany Hall
Which book by Jacob Riis used photographs to show urban poverty and poor living conditions?
How the Other Half Lives
Theodore Roosevelt's Square Deal aimed at the three C's: Conservation of the environment, Corporations (Monopolies/trusts), and this third C. Laws much as the Pure Food and Drug Act fall under this third category.
Consumer Protection
While states tried to regulate food safety individually, the interstate nature of the meatpacking industry made it impossible. In response, what 1906 federal law was passed to mandate federal inspection of meat products across all states?
The Meat Inspection Act
What did Woodrow Wilson do as president that can be considered as moving backward in terms of progress toward racial equality in the United States?
He segregated the federal government workplaces in D.C.
The monopolization of which industry was the biggest concern for groups like The Farmer's Alliance and the Populist Party?
The Railroad/shipping industry
This woman wrote a series of articles in Harper's Weekly that showed John D Rockerfeller to be overly greedy, aggressive, and ruthless in his running of the Standard Oil monopoly.
Ida Tarbell
This man was president after Theodore Roosevelt and before Woodrow Wilson. Compared to those two, he did not do as much in the way of Progressivism.
William H. Taft
Which of the Progressive Amendments DID NOT begin at the state level?
16th Amendment - Income Tax
What is the set of beliefs that aims at improving the genetic quality of human beings? This ideology is controversial because it involves judging who is fit to reproduce and who is not.
Eugenics
Addressing the Gilded Age problems of severe urban poverty and the lack of resources for new immigrants, Jane Addams founded the famous "Hull House" in Chicago in 1889. What was the name for these types of places established in poor communities?
Settlement Houses
This man helped remove Boss Tweed from power by publishing political cartoons that exposed the corruption of the political machine in New York.
Thomas Nast
According to Theodore Roosevelt, what the difference between a "good" trust and a "bad" trust?
Both have a lot of economic power, but "bad" trusts exploit the public while "good" trusts actually run more efficiently for the public good.
In the landmark 1908 Supreme Court case Muller v. Oregon, the Supreme Court actually upheld a state-level Progressive law. What did this specific Oregon state law regulate?
Working hours for women (limiting them to a 10-hour workday)
Regulating child labor was incredibly difficult because businesses would just move to states with weaker laws. Congress attempted to solve this with a 1916 federal law banning the interstate sale of goods made by children. What was the name of this act (which the Supreme Court later controversially struck down)?
The Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
To combat the Gilded Age problem of political patronage and the "spoils system," what 1883 federal law established that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit rather than political affiliation?
The Pendleton Civil Service Act
This muckraker exposed the realities of lynching in the south and also fought for women's suffrage, though she was sometimes sidelined for being African American.
Ida B. Wells
Signed into law by Woodrow Wilson in 1913 to stabilize the economy and regulate the money supply, what act created the modern central banking system of the United States?
The Federal Reserve Act
This man championed the Wisconsin Plan that encouraged state government to experiment with laws to find which were effective and which weren't.
Robert Lafollette
What was the name for the practice of micromanaging worker movements to maximize efficiency and minimize waste?
Taylorism