Chapter 6 The Progressive Spirit of Reform Study Guide
1. What were the organizations called that influenced city and county politics in the late 1800s?
(pg 166)___________________________________
2. What was William Howard Taft’s main criticism of President Theodore Roosevelt? (pg 188)
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3. What was Theodore Roosevelt’s idea for balancing the interests of consumers, laborers, and
businesspeople called? (pg 186)___________________________________
4. Why did business leaders oppose granting women the right to vote? (pg 180)
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5. How did politicians best confront corruption in Washington during the Gilded Age? (pg 168)
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6. Who encouraged African Americans to improve their economic and educational opportunities
rather than fight discrimination directly? (pg 181) _____________________________________
7. What was the result of workplace laws passed during the Progressive movement? (pg 177)
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8. What were muckrakers? (pg 168) ___________________________________________________
9. Why did child labor continue even after the reforms of the 1910s? (pg 175)
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10. What was the main reason for the rise in Mexican immigration between 1901 and 1930? (pg
183) __________________________________________________________________________
11. Which reforms allowed voters to overrule a law that government had proposed or passed? (pg
170) __________________________________
12. What brought attention to racial inequality by using the courts to fight grandfather clauses that
had been used to prevent African Americans in the South from voting? (pg182) ______________
13. The practice of giving government jobs to supporters after a candidate wins an election? (pg
167) ____________________________
14. Who founded the National Women’s Party (NWP)? (pg 181) ____________________________
15. Whose reform angered Progressives because they did not destroy trusts completely? (pg 188)
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16. What did union members claim to be unfair because its emphasis on competition caused
managers to consider profits more important than safe working conditions? (pg 178)
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17. Which amendment helped expand voting rights by allowing voters, and not state legislatures, to
elect senators? (pg 170) ________________________________________
18. Who considered the conservation of natural resources an important national priority? (pg 187)
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19. What fire led to the passage of laws improving factory safety? (pg 177) ____________________
20. What did the Society of American Indians believe would end Native American poverty? (pg 183)
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21. Who worked to improve the education for medical professionals? (pg 170) _________________
22. What did the procedure called the initiative allow? (pg 170) _____________________________
23. What was workers’ compensation? (pg 177) __________________________________________
24. Who drew attention to the lynching of African Americans while fighting against discrimination?
(pg 181) ____________________________
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political machines
claimed more power for his presidency than the Constitution allowed
Square Deal
women would support child labor and minimum wage laws
passing a law that established a new system for granting federal jobs-Pendleton Civil Service Act
Booker T. Washington
eased reformers’ minds but were not always enforced
journalists who wrote about problems in society during Progressive age
poor families needed income, however little
They could cross the US border with relative ease.
referendum
NAACP
spoils system
Alice Paul
Taft
capitalism
17th Amendment
Theodore Roosevelt
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
integration into white society
Progressives
voters to propose new laws by using petitions
guaranteed a portion of lost wages to workers injured on the job
Ida Wells