Progressive Era
Reformers (People)
Reforms
Cause and Effect
What's goin' on heah say?!
100
Progressives believed in the importance of:
What is making American society better. This included intense social and moral reform.
100
What is a Muckracker?
What is journalist that wanted to expose corruption and abuses in industry and goverment
100
This reform allowed voters to remove an elected official from office
What is Recall
100
The Progressive Movement was primarily a response to problems created by
What is a lack of regulation in Industrialization, social issues from Immigration, and infrastructure issues within Urbanization.
100
What issue does this picture shed light on?
What is Child Labor
200
Middle class, white reformers who want to improve American life were called:
What is a Progressive
200
Who wrote the Jungle?
Who is Upton Sinclair
200
Before the General Election how do voters choose their party's candidates?
What is Primary Election
200
This was one major legacy (or direct result) of the Social Gospel Movement:
What is an increased attention to the needs of the poor in industrial society
200
What is Teddy Roosevelt addressing the issues with the meat packing industry. Also acceptable, What is a Muckraker.
300
If I believe that Alcoholic beverages are bad what movement am I a part of?
What is The Temperance Movement
300
I am best known for my photographs of people living in New York Cities poorest slums. Who am I
Who is Jacob Riis
300
This is what you call the process of gathering support through signatures and rallies addressed to a government official or public entity. You would need to do this in order to present an initiative.
What is a petition.
300
What was the cause of the Conservation movement during the Progressive Era?
What is the destruction and overuse of natural resources
300
What is the Prohibition
400
Daily Double! This law made it to where US Senators were chosen via direct election for each state.
What is the 17th Amendment?
400
I was know for fighting for Womens Suffrage for most of my adult life, yet I never saw the passage of the law granting this. Who am I?
Who is is Susan B. Anthony
400
This event led to the creation of extensive workplace fire and labor safety laws as wells as limitations on working hours and regulations on existing conditions.
What was the Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire/ Triangle Fire Tragedy.
400
Outrage over the Jungle led to the passage of what 2 major pieces of legislation?
What is The Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act
400
DAILY DOUBLE! Samuel Gompers led the American Federation of Labor, this type of organization that fights for workers rights and conditions:
What is a labor union
500
The Progressive Era is also called......
What is The Gilded Age
500
Ida Tarbell was not afraid to fight the right and powerful John D. Rockefeller. How did she express her opinion and what did she conclude?
What is writing a series of articles. She concluded that he was always an unfair and abusive business competitor. She also stood up for women's rights.
500
What is the difference between a Referendum and Initiative?
A Referendum allowed voters to PUT a bill on the ballot and vote it into law whereas an Initiative gave voters the right to put a bill before a State Legislator who then pushes the issue to vote.
500
The labor movement was considered controversial during the Progressive era because of these factors:
What is its connections with the legal philosophy of "Socialism" and America's fear of moving away from the idea of a "Democratic" and "Capitalistic" government.
500
I founded the Tuskegee Institute and advocated for African Americans to work hard to achieve economic equality in order for white society to eventually accept them as equals.
Who is Booker T. Washington
600
These 4 areas were the primary topics of focus during the Progressive Movement.
What are Social Welfare, Fostering Efficiency, Economic Reform, and Moral Reform.
600
Founder of the NAACP, this figure argued that African Americans should consistently fight for racial equality.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois
600
The Progressive Era was a time of mass immigration. Since it was also a time of ineffective and unenforced social policy, immigrants had to do this in order to protect themselves and sustain their families.
What is live in cramped an unsanitary conditions like tenement housing, and work the same jobs as everyone else for less pay and poorer conditions.
600
Daily Double! In response to large numbers of improperly handled federal jobs and internal nepotism and corruption in city/state governments, this was created:
What is the Commission Plan
600
Who is Jane Addams