African-Americans and Women in the Progressive Era
Political Reforms in the Cities & States
Progressivism on the National Level
Progressivism on the National Level pt 2
100
People should take a pragmatic, or practical, approach to morals, ideals, and knowledge
What is pragmatism?
100
was the movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1916 and 1970
What is the Great Migration?
100
Voters required to mark their choices in a private booth; adopted by all states in 1910
What is Secret Ballots?
100
ICC had greater authority to stop railroads from granting rebates to favored customers
What is the Elkins Act (1903)?
100
Who was the Socialist Party's nominee for President in 1912?
What is Eugene V. Debs ?
200
Was used in the Progressive Era to characterize reform-minded American journalists who attacked established institutions and leaders as corrupt
What is muckrakers?
200
is a civil rights organization founded in 1909 to fight prejudice, lynching, and Jim Crow segregation, and to work for the betterment of "people of color."
What is the NAACP?
200
Voters compel legislatures to consider a bill
What is a Initiative?
200
Commission could fix “just and reasonable” rates for railroads
What is the Hepburn Act (1906)?
200
Roosevelt’s claim he was “as strong as a bull moose” gave the party its nickname:
What is The Bull Moose Party?
300
What book fully exposed the corruption and greed of the oil monopoly?
What is Wealth Against Commonwealth?
300
it gave women the right to vote in 1920
What is the 19th amendment?
300
Citizens can vote on proposed laws printed on their ballots
What is a Referendum?
300
A famous muckraking book called ____________written by Upton Sinclair, detailed the horrifying, disgusting conditions of the meatpacking industry
What is The Jungle?
300
12 regional federal farm loan banks were established to provide farm loans at low interest rates
What is Federal Farm Loan Act (1916)?
400
What famous magazine came during this time?
What is Cosmopolitan?
400
Carrie Chapman Catt became the new president of __________________________
What is National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA) ?
400
Voters could remove a corrupt/unsatisfactory politician from office
What is Recall?
400
Public outcry over The Jungle resulted in two major regulatory laws in 1906:
What is Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act ?
400
Prohibited the shipment in interstate commerce of products manufactured by children under the age of 14; later overturned by the Supreme Court
What is Child Labor Act (1916)?
500
Represented a common desire to improve life in the industrial age
What is Progressivism?
500
Margaret Sanger advocated for
What is birth-control education?
500
An election in which voters choose candidates to run on a party's ticket in a subsequent election for public office
What is Direct Primaries?
500
Taft had campaigned to lower tariffs, but instead signed into bill a higher tariff and then publicly defended it
What is Payne-Aldrich Tariff?
500
Limit both big business and big govt., bring about reform by ending corruption, revive competition by supporting small businesses