What is a party organization, headed by a single boss or small autocratic group, that commands enough votes to maintain political and administrative control of a city, county, or state?
Political Machines
What is a lassaiz faire economy?
Means allowing industry to be free from state intervention, especially restrictions in the form of tariffs and government monopolies. The phrase is French and literally means "let do", but it broadly implies "let it be", or "leave it alone."
What happened in the Triangle Shirtwaist Company Factory?
The Triangle Shirtwaist Company factory in New York City burned, killing 146 workers.
Where did child laborers work the most
What book was intended to illustrate the heinous lives of immigrants while simultaneously exposing the meat industry? And who wrote it?
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle
What did the 17th amendment do?
The 17th Amendment gave people the right to vote for their senators instead of the state legislature; this is called direct election, where the people choose who is in office
Workers compensation laws?
Guaranteed a portion of lost wages to workers injured on the job
List a cause of environmental damage during the progressive area.
Industrialization
Coal Mines
Deforestation
What is the name of the compacted buildings where facilities were poor, diseases were rampant, and conditions were shambolic and very packed?
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Who provided detailed, accurate journalistic accounts of the political and economic corruption and social hardships caused by the power of big business in a rapidly industrializing United States.?
What was Muller Vs Oregon?
A famous case citing scientific and sociological studies to demonstrate that because women had less strength and endurance than men, long hours of labor were dangerous for women, while their unique ability to bear children gave the government a legitimate interest in their working conditions.
16th Amendment?
Income tax to decrease wealth inequality
Name two significant women leaders during this era?
1. Ida B Wells.
2. Jane Adams
3. Susan B Anthony
4. Carrie Chapman Catt
4. Anna Howard Shaw
5. Alice Paul
6. Margaret Sanger
If we forgot any Mr. Knox can decide.
Eugene V. Debs
He openly criticized business and championed for labor rights.
What was the progressive movement?
What is the practice in which the political party winning an election rewards its campaign workers and other active supporters by appointment to government posts and with other favours. .
Spoils/Patranoge System
What is the system of mass production that was pioneered in the early 20th century by the _____ motor company?
Ford/Fordism
How did Theodore Roosevelt conserve the nation’s land and resources?
Roosevelt used his authority to establish 150 national forests, 51 federal bird reserves, four national game preserves, five national parks and 18 national monuments on over 230 million acres of public land.
Why did Mexicans migrate to the US?
to escape religious and political persecution and for economic opportunity
What was the Women's emancipation movement in the social, economic, cultural, and sexual spheres?
New Feminism
What was the TWO responses to The Jungle and by which president?
Daddy Roosevelt published the food and drug act of 1906 AND the Meat Inspection act
What was the name of the second expansion of national power that occurred in 1914 and the purpose was investigated and prohibited unfair business practices and activities such as price-fixing, and monopolistic practices?
Federal Trade Commission
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What book was Pope Leo XIII's powerful statement of 1894 that criticized the divorce of economic life from ethical considerations, endorsed the right of workers to form unions, and repudiated competitive individualism in favor of a more cooperative vision of the good society?
Rerum Novarum
Which race immigrated through angel island the most?
The Asians
Founded in 1911, the _______ __ ________ _______ was a reform organization typical of the era. It brought together Indian intellectuals to promote discussion of the plight of Native Americans in the hope that public exposure would be the first step toward remedying injustice.
Society of American Indians