Homework 21 - Chapter 17: The Progressive Era
Read pages 510 to 545. Answer the questions.
Section 1: The Origins of Progressivism
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What happened to Camella?
Why was her testimony to Congress important?
What was the purpose of the Progressive Movement?
What 4 goals did they have?
How did the YMCA fight poverty in the slums?
Who was Florence Kelley and important contribution did she make?
What was the purpose of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union?
What made Carrie Nation an effective but crazy crusader for Prohibibtion?
What was the Anti Saloon League?
When Eugene Debs organized the Socialist Party what grievances did he have economics and government?
Who were the muckrakers?
What important contribution did they make?
How did scientific management make factories more efficient?
What unusual step did Henry Ford take to improve efficiency?
What happened in Galveston in 1900?
What did the state government of Texas do about the failed recovery of the city?
How did the council manager form of local government improve government efficiency?
There were many reform mayors in the 1890s. How did they improve city life?
Who was Bob La Follete?
What made him a great governor in Wisconsin?
How did reform governments protect women and children during the industrial age?
How did the court cases Muller v. Oregon and Bunting v. Oregon make life better for workers?
How did the initiative, referendum, and recall help improve local and state governments?
What was the 17th Amendment?
Why was it needed?
Section 2: Women in Public Life
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What cause did Susette La Flesche fight for?
Why was it important for women to become activists?
What roles did women have on the farm?
Why were industrial jobs harsher for women than men?
What factors forced 70% of women to remain as domestic servants?
Why did Sophia Smith start a college just for women?
What did the women led reform “social housekeeping”mean?
Who was Susan B. Anthony?
What did she fight for?
Why did the liquour industry oppose the right to vote for women?
What was the 3 part strategy devised by Susan B. Anthony to achieve the right to vote for women?
Section 3: Teddy Roosevelt’s Square Deal
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Who was Upton Sinclair and what did he write?
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How did Teddy Roosevelt respond to Sinclair’s book?
How did Teddy become president?
Teddy’s life before becoming President was exciting and fun. What kind of things did he do?
What made Teddy the first modern President that all presidents since have copied?
What was the Square Deal?
Why did Teddy believe that the US needed a powerful and active government?
What is a trust?
How did Standard Oil endanger the US economy?
How was Teddy able to break up monopolies and trusts?
Why did he leave some monopolies and trusts alone?
How did the 1902 Coal Strike threaten the nation?
What did Teddy do to resolve the crisis?
Which government agency regulated railroads?
Why was this needed?
After reading the book The Jungle, what law was passed?
How did this impact consumers?
What was the Pure Food and Drug Act?
Why was it needed?
What steps did Teddy take to save our forests, natural resources, and natural beauty?
Who was John Muir?
Who did he influence Teddy?
Who was Gifford Pinchot?
How did he influence Teddy?
Why are historians mixed about Roosevelt’s activism in civil rights for African Americans?
What important contribution did Booker T. Washington make to civil rights?
What group did WEB DuBois create in 1909?
Why do you think it was so hard to make real civil rights progress from 1900 to 1920?
Section 4: Progressivism Under Taft
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What changes did Gifford Pinchot make in the way that government managed wilderness areas?
Why did William Howard Taft become the likely choice to succeed Teddy Roosevelt?
In what ways did Taft stumble as a president?
Why did Taft support increased tariffs?
How did Taft anger conservationists?
What led to the crumbling of the Republican party?
Who was running for president in 1912?
Why did Teddy believe he had to run against his best friend?
What was the name of Teddy’s campaign?
How did Teddy running again hurt Republicans and help democrats?
Who won the election of 1912?
Section 5: Wilson’s New Freedom
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Why was Carrie Catt optimistic about the right to vote for women in 1916?
What kind of background did Wilson have to prepare him for the presidency?
What name did Wilson give his ideas of government action?
What was the Clayton Anti Trust Act?
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Why was it needed?
What was the Federal Trade Commission?
Why did consumers need a watch dog agency?
What was the Underwood Tariff?
How did Wilson replace tax revenues lost by the Underwood Tariff and Prohibition?
What was the 16th Amendment?
Why is this amendment the backbone of modern society in America?
What was the Federal Reserve System?
What makes it an essential part of the American economy even today?
What steps did women suffragists take to expand the right to vote for women?
What were the 5 tactics used by Carrie Catt and the National American Women Suffrage Association?
How did women contribute to the World War One efforts to win?
Why was it impossible for men to block the 19th Amendment in 1919?
In what way was Wilson a terrible civil rights president?
What event marked the end o f the Progressive Movement?