Vocab
John Muir
Naturalist, gained government protection of Yosemite (wanted the entire wilderness preserved in its natural state)
Square Deal
Rossevelt’s plan to limit the power of trusts and promote public health and safety
What serious safety violations made the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire a major disaster?
Doors were locked
Fire escapes were not up to standard
No fire alarms
No sprinkler systems
Theodore Roosevelt created the U.S. Forest Service and the National Park Service because
He recognized that natural resources were limited and believed their uses needed to be controlled
1. What were the main concerns of the NACW?
2. In the Progressive Era, women reformers campaigned for civil rights, children's health and welfare, and
3. This event was a turning point for reform in workplace safety
1. Fighting segregation and lynchings
2. Prohibition
3. Triangle-Shirtwaist Company fire
New Freedom
Plan that called for tariff reductions, banking reforms, and stronger antitrust laws
1.Susan B. Anthony
2. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
3. Gifford Pinchot
4. Alice Paul
1. Women’s suffrage activist arrested for voting
2. Helped Susan B. Anthony form the National Woman Suffrage Association
3. Chief of the U.S. Forest Service
4. Led National Women’s Party in picketing the White House
Why were many suffragists angered by the passage of the 15th Amendment?
Gave the right to vote to African American men, but not women
Upton Sinclair's shocking novel The Jungle sparked an investigation that led to
The passage of the Meat Inspection Act
1. Reformers called for prohibition because they believed that alcohol
2. Theodore Roosevelt refused to support President Taft's reelection, and the Republican Party split after the
3. She was arrested for "knowingly, wrongfully, and unlawfully" voting in 1872
1. Was responsible for crime, poverty, and violence against women
2. Ballinger-Pinchot Affair
3. Susan B. Anthony
Ida Tarbell
Journalist who exposed Rockefeller’s underhanded tactics at Standard Oil
1.16th Amendment
2. 18th Amendment
3. 19th Amendment
1. Amendment that allowed Congress to levy taxes based on individual’s income
2. Prohibited the sale, manufacturing, and distribution of alcohol
3. Amendment giving women the right to vote
What did Teddy Roosevelt mean by his campaign slogan "the Square Deal"?
Each person would receive a square deal of what they deserved
No more, no less
What groups' needs did Theodore Roosevelt feel should be balanced in the "Square Deal"?
Workers, businesses, and consumers
1. In the garment industry, why were women paid less than men?
2. How did muckrakers prepare the way for political reforms?
3. The struggle for women's suffrage resulted in a final victory with the ratification of the
1. Employers assumed women were supported by fathers or husbands
2. Exposed corruption of the disabled
3.19th Amendment
Jacob Riis
Wrote the book “How the Other Half Lives”
1. Lincoln Steffens
2. Woodrow Wilson
3. Robert La Follette
4. Francis Willard
1. Exposed corruption of city governments
2. Won all but 8 states in the 1912 election
3. Led progressive movement in Wisconsin
4. President of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Who were the 3 major candidates for president in 1912?
William Howard Taft- Republican
Woodrow Wilson- Democratic
Theodore Roosevelt - Progressive Party or Bull Moose Party
Why did the Republican Party's plan to control Teddy Roosevelt backfire?
President McKinley was assassinated
1. What political reform was enacted through the ratification of the 17th Amendment?
2.Why was the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fired a landmark in labor history?
3.Which aims did the NAACP and the ADL share?
1. Direct election of U.S. Senators
2.Tragedy led to New York State reforms for safety measures, factory inspections, and sanitation standards
3.Fighting negative stereotyping of a minority
Richard Ballinger
Cabinet member who allowed business leaders to purchase public land in Alaska
1. Leon Czolgosz
2. Theodore Roosevelt
3. Otella Cromwell
1. Assassinated President William McKinley
2. Took over as president after McKinley’s assassination
3. Earned a P.h.D. from Yale
What were Wilson's 3 main objectives under the slogan "New Freedom"?
Lower tariffs
Banking reforms
Stronger anti-trust legislation
What is one reason it took 72 years from the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 for women to be granted the right to vote?
Supreme Court ruled the right to vote was up to the individual states
1. In the case of Muller vs. Oregon, the Brandeis brief convinced the Supreme Court to uphold
2. This book by Jacob Riis presented visual images of desperate urban poverty.
3. The foundation of the Progressive movement was laid by the
1. A law establishing a 10-hour workday
2. How the Other Half Lives
3. Muckrakers