Multiple Choice
This large organization, which was created as part of the Third Great Awakening, aimed to support reduction in drinking alcohol. It eventually gave a large boost to the women’s suffrage movement, helping to promote the idea across the United States.
Women's Christian Temperance Union
This Republican President won the presidency by supporting the Gold Standard, and supported protectionism and isolationism at first, but as he was President during the Spanish–American War, he helped kickstart American imperialism. His assassination paved the way for the beginning of the Progressive Era.
William McKinley
This is a style of journalism during the Progressive Era that aimed to expose corruption or abuse of power in government or business, and was critical in the weakening of political machines and trusts during the era. Ida Tarbell is one of the most famous of these, publishing an expose on Standard Oil.
Muckraking
This foreign policy idea thinks that a country, like the United States, Britain, or Germany, should dominate weaker nations, and use them as sources of raw materials. This policy was oftentimes supported with ideas like "the White Man's Burden", a racist idea that white empires should conquer non-white peoples in order to "educate" them.
Imperialism
This organization, created by Woodrow Wilson in 1913, is the central banking system of the United States. Although created by the government, it is essentially independent of its authority, and can make decisions freely to maintain the stability of the U.S. banking system.
Federal Reserve
This sociologist, historian, and civil rights activist was a major voice representing African-Americans later in the Progressive movement. He was a freeborn Northerner who earned a doctorate from Harvard, and believed that intelligent and educated African Americans should directly challenge the "Jim Crow" South and segregation.
W.E.B. Du Bois
This Democratic Presidential candidate ran for president three times, all unsuccessfully. He helped make political parties more interested in progressive causes, by moving the Democrats away from ex-Confederate control. He was a “Populist”, and is remembered for his "Cross of Gold" speech, which condemned the Gold Standard.
William Jennings Bryan
This policy is a ban on alcohol. It was supported by reformers across the United States during the Progressive Era, and its successful implementation following World War One was a major impact of the era.
Prohibition
This foreign policy idea thinks the United States should not interfere in the affairs of other countries. It often supported economic policies like tariffs, which would help some American business, but would generally make goods more expensive and trade more difficult.
Isolationism
This organization, created by Theodore Roosevelt and Congress after they had read “The Jungle”, by Upton Sinclair which described disgusting conditions in the meatpacking industry, was created to supervise the health and safety of consumer products. It was one of a series of such regulatory agencies created by Roosevelt and Congress during his presidency.
Food and Drug Administration
This organization, led by Samuel Gompers, was a union that was able to be successful by focusing on the conditions of the workers over larger political goals and by allowing its component unions some level of independence.
American Federation of Labor
This educator, author, and speaker was a major voice representing African-Americans early in the Progressive movement. He was formerly enslaved, and believed that African-Americans should seek to enrich themselves inside the system of segregation, so they may eventually have the power to eventually challenge the system.
Booker T. Washington
Located in the Pacific Ocean, this nation, long home to American sugar plantations owned by sugar trusts, was annexed by the United States following a coup against the local monarch launched by those trusts.
Hawaiʻi
Otherwise known as "scientific management", this economic ideology aims to improve labor productivity, and met with mixed success. In some cases, it was able to successfully make work more efficient, which improved everyone's lives. In other cases, it dehumanized workers, treating them as if they were machines instead of people.
Taylorism
This political movement aimed to reform American politics. It opposed the Gold Standard, which kept prices low, which farmers and rural folk opposed, as they couldn’t make any money from selling their goods. It also supported the demands of labor unions and wanted to limit the power of trusts and monopolies.
Populism
This organization aimed to advocate for the interests of farmers in the United States, who felt harmed by the “Long Depression”, the Gold Standard, and the increasing focus of the United States on urban areas over rural ones. It was successful in promoting the interests of farmers, and helped lead to the rise of the Progressive Movement.
The Grange
This Republican President was a trustbuster, conservationist, progressive, and imperialist who had widespread impacts on American foreign and domestic policies. He helped make political parties more interested in progressive causes, by moving the Republicans away from being controlled by trusts.
Theodore Roosevelt
This foreign policy idea aimed to achieve its goals through conspicuous shows of force, particularly though the use of naval power. Teddy Roosevelt became well known for his use of it.
Gunboat Diplomacy
This is a pseudoscientific (fake science) ideology based on a simplistic idea of genetics which seeks to eliminate human ills, oftentimes associated with impoverished, disabled, or non-white people, though the killing or sterilization of individuals deemed to be carriers of these perceived impurities.
Eugenics
This political reform is what allowed regular people to have a say in how political parties chose their candidates. Before the Progressive Era, political machines would choose who their political party's candidates were, but after the Progressive Era, political parties asked regular members of their party to vote to decide who their candidate would be.
Primaries
This organization, led by John D. Rockefeller, was a trust that was able to dominate its industry through a mixture of productive innovation and ruthless business tactics. Rockefeller would become the first billionaire in history following the "trustbusting" of this company, owning about 2% of the American economy at the height of his power.
Standard Oil
This Democratic President was a progressive, reformer, and segregationist. Before World War One, he created a Federal income tax and the Federal Reserve, and was eventually pressured into supporting women's suffrage, though he did segregate the Federal government.
Woodrow Wilson
This foreign policy idea was an addition to the Monroe Doctrine that stated that the United States had a right to intervene in affairs in the Americas if it saw a need.
Roosevelt Corollary
This is an economic and political ideology that believes that the economy should be owned and regulated by the community as a whole. It encompasses a great variety of beliefs, some of which are pro-democracy and some of which are authoritarian, some of which are reformist and some of which are revolutionary.
Socialism
This political reform allowed regular people to pass laws without needing an elected assembly at all. Before the Progressive Era, laws needed to be written and passed by elected assemblies controlled by political machines, but after the Progressive Era, laws could be passed as part of a vote during an election, without needing the input of elected officials.
Referendums