The Progressive Era AYPA
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1. Following the victory in the Spanish-American War, America had
emerged from an extended period of isolationism to announce itself as a
world _______________.
2. The Boxer Rebellion and proved the American military was a force to be
_______________ with.
3. The antitrust laws had been weakened by Supreme Court rulings, and
many businesses were able to create _______________ by the turn of
the century with little to no competition
4. Worst of all however was child labor. Though there were laws aimed at
protecting young children from factory work, by the early 1900's these
laws were rarely _______________.
5. Roosevelt succeeded in breaking up some of the railroad monopolies
such as Northern Securities which had been combining their forces in
order to raise the cost of _______________.
6. Roosevelt decided not to run for re-election in 1908, instead throwing
the weight of his _______________ behind William Howard Taft
7. Roosevelt ran against the Republican Taft and Democrat Woodrow
Wilson as a candidate for the new _______________ Party the party
came to be known as the Bull Moose Party after a statement Roosevelt
made about roaring like a bull moose
8. Initiative gave voters the right to initiate legislation. Referendum allowed
for the approval or veto of legislation. Recall enabled voters to
_______________ an elected official from office by special election.
9. Wilson then went on to create the Federal Trade Commission in 1914 in
order to investigate corporations and put a halt to _______________
business practices.
10.
There were large numbers of Americans who were untouched by
the benefits of the Progressive Era. Women were generally not allowed
to join labor unions, and the workplace reforms that help clean up the
factories in which men worked often did little for women. Likewise
progressive reforms generally ignored problems of racial, ethnic, and
religious persecution. With the lack of support from the government,
minority groups had to seek _______________ for themselves.
11.
Temperance was the name of the movement that sought the
complete ban on the manufacture and sale of _______________.
12.
The only major help new immigrants received from native citizens
came in the form of settlement houses. Settlement houses, such as Hull
House founded by Jane Addams in the late 1800s, helped immigrants to
better assimilate by teaching them English and helping them understand
American _______________.
13.
President Wilson was a supporter of segregation and under his
administration black and white federal workers were obliged to use
separate restrooms and lunch areas. If African Americans wanted any
kind of social betterment it became clear that it would have to come
from within their _______________.
14.
In 1909, Du Bois co-founded the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People and edited the organization's news
_______________ Crisis.
15.
The entertainment industry saw great progress as the motion
picture developed from being a mere curiosity to a full-fledged industry.
In 1903, the first narrative film was exhibited to the public. It was called
the Great Train Robbery and it created quite a _______________.
16.
The percentage of electrified homes jumped from only five
percent at the turn of the century to over _______________ percent by
the end of the Progressive Era.
17.
In the 15 to 20 year period that was called the Progressive Era
many new laws were passed with the aim of _______________ society.
18.
World War one brought about the end of the era but many of the
progressive policies were simply put on hold. The Progressive Era was
a crucial period in American history. It created a new more
_______________ role for the federal government, and proved that
when the American people work together they could change society for
the better.