Progressive Reforms in Montana
This era focused on reforming government, business, and society in the early 1900s.
What is the Progressive Era?
This industry dominated Montana’s economy during the Progressive Era.
What is mining (copper mining)?
The movement that fought for women’s right to vote.
What is women’s suffrage?
The global conflict that lasted from 1914 to 1918.
What is World War I?
Montana’s 1918 law that harshly punished anti-war speech.
What is the Montana Sedition Act?
Located in north-central Montana, this reservation was the result of years of lobbying by Native leaders and federal officials in the Progressive Era.
What is the Rocky Boy’s Reservation?
An organization of workers formed to fight for better wages and safer working conditions.
What is a labor union?
A Montana leader who voted against U.S. involvement in both World Wars.
Who is Jeannette Rankin?
The alliance that included the United States, France, and Great Britain.
Who are the Allied Powers?
The loss of freedoms like speech and assembly during wartime is known as this.
What are civil liberties?
These three reforms allowed voters to propose laws, vote on laws, and remove officials from office.
What are initiative, referendum, and recall?
This radical labor union, known as the “Wobblies,” was active in Montana mining towns.
What is the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)?
This movement aimed to reduce or ban alcohol consumption.
What is the temperance movement?
Reasons that many Montanans opposed WWI.
Opposition to WWI in Montana often came from labor unions, immigrant groups, and pacifists because they feared it would harm workers, target immigrant communities, or violate their pacifist beliefs.
By supporting U.S. efforts in World War I, this Crow leader tried to balance tribal survival, federal expectations, and cultural preservation during the Progressive Era.
Who is Plenty Coups?
This Progressive Era reform banned the production and sale of alcohol in the United States, reflecting concerns about public health, morality, and family life
What is Prohibition?
The murder of this IWW organizer in Butte, Montana highlighted tensions between labor activism, corporate power, and wartime patriotism during WWI.
Who is Frank Little?
Progressive reformers believed government should do this to protect ordinary people.
What is regulate business/protect workers and consumers?
War bonds sold to raise money for the U.S. war effort.
What are Liberty Bonds?
This deadly disease spread worldwide at the end of the war and killed thousands of Montanans.
What is the 1918 influenza pandemic (spanish flu)?
Passed during the Progressive Era, this federal law attempted to assimilate Native Americans by dividing tribal lands into individual allotments, often resulting in massive land loss.
What is the Dawes Act?
This deadly event in Butte exposed unsafe mining conditions and intensified conflict between labor unions, mining companies, and the federal government during World War I.
What is the Speculator Mine Fire?
This radical temperance activist became famous for smashing saloons and visited Butte to protest alcohol consumption in a mining town where reformers linked drinking to workplace danger and social disorder.
Who is Carrie Nation?
This Montana organization promoted loyalty and punished dissent during WWI.
What is the Montana Council of Defense?
Immigrants from nations the U.S. was at war with were labeled this in Montana and subjected to surveillance and detention.
What are enemy aliens?