The Progressive Movement
• What type of reforms were the
17th Amendment and anti-trust
laws?
• Progressive reforms on the
national level.
• What was the
Amendment?
• Direct election of United
States senators
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• What was the major
weakness in the Sherman
Anti-Trust Act?
• The wording was too vague.
• What was the name of the early
twentieth century social and
political reform movement, which
occurred on every level of
government in the United States?
• The Progressive Movement
• Name a leader of the
Women’s Suffrage
Movement.
• Susan B. Anthony
• At what level of government
were child labor laws an
example of a Progressive
reform?
• State government
• Which Progressive
president was known for
offering the American
people a “Square Deal”?
• Theodore Roosevelt
• What does anti-trust
mean?
• Anti-monopoly
• What Progressive
president was known for
the New Freedom?
• Woodrow Wilson
• Which constitutional
amendment gave women
the right to vote?
• 19th Amendment
• What did the term “trust”
mean during the late 19th
and early 20th centuries?
• A business monopoly
• What is another word
for the right to vote?
• Suffrage
• What does the term
monopoly mean?
• Absence of
Competition
• Who were the Muckrakers?
• Progressive writers who
wrote about social and
political evils in late 19th and
early 20th century America.
• What did the Clayton Anti-Trust
Act do?
• 1) Outlawed price fixing;
• 2) Exempted unions from the
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Name 5 ways the
Progressives tried to
make government
more democratic at
the state level?
• Referendum
• Initiative
• Recall
• Secret Ballot
• Primary Elections
By what process may
citizens vote on laws
passed by a legislative
body?
•Referendum
What process permits
citizens to propose laws to
their state or local
governments?
•Initiative
By what process may citizens
vote to remove government
officials from office before
they have finished their
terms?
•Recall election
What does one call an
election in which voters
nominate a political
party’s candidates for
office?
•Primary election
In what two ways did
Progressives try to make
local governments less
corrupt, more efficient,
and more responsive to the
people?
•Commission form
of city gov’t.
•Council/manager
form of city gov’t.
How does the
council/manager form of
city gov’t. work?
• Voters elect a city council
• City council hires a
preofessional manager to
serve as the city’s
administrator