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Social Studies
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Progressive Movement Review Sheet
Key Terms:
1. Progressive
2. Muckraker
3. Reform
4. Suffrage
5. Political machine
6. Tammany Hall
7. Temperance
8. Prohibition
9. Seneca Falls Convention
10. 18th Amendment
11. 19th Amendment
12. Trustbuster
13. Square Deal
14. Progressive Party (Bull Moose Party)
15. Conservation
16. Laissez-faire
17. Interstate Commerce Act
18. Settlement House
Key People:
1. Thomas Nast
2. William “Boss” Tweed
3. Jacob Riis
4. Upton Sinclair
5. Ida Tarbell
6. Ida B. Wells
7. Booker T. Washington
8. WEB DuBois
9. Theodore Roosevelt
10. Susan B. Anthony
11. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
12. Alice Paul
13. Frances Willard
14. Carry Nation
15. Jane Addams
Key Ideas:
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What was the primary cause of problems in America in the late 1800s and early 1900s?
How did muckrakers try to improve life in America?
How did political machines cause corruption in city government?
How was Theodore Roosevelt different from previous presidents?
Unit 4 Answer Key:
1. Progressive: Someone who worked to make the US better
2. Muckraker: people who exposed problems by writing books, newspapers, or taking pictures
3. Reform: change for the better
4. Suffrage: the right to vote
5. Political Machine: political group that controlled government
6. Tammany Hall: Political machine run by Boss Tweed in NYC
7. Temperance: drinking no alcohol
8. Prohibition: making alcohol illegal
9. 18th Amendment: made alcohol illegal by law
10. Seneca Falls Convention: meeting held to discuss women’s rights and right to vote
11. 19th Amendment: gave women the right to vote
12. Trustbuster: someone who broke up trusts – Teddy Roosevelt
13. Square Deal: Roosevelt’s plan for equality and fairness
14. Progressive Party (Bull Moose Party): nonpolitical party started by Theodore Roosevelt
15. Conservative: protecting natural resources
16. Laissez-faire: (hands off) government does not regulate business
17. Interstate Commerce Act: law that set fair railroad prices
18. Settlement House: place where poor immigrants could get help – English class, medical, daycare
19. Upton Sinclair: Wrote the Jungle about meatpacking plants – led to Meat Inspection Act and Pure
Food and Drug Act
20. Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton: organized Seneca Falls Convention.
21. Susan B Anthony: also organized Seneca Falls Convention. She was arrested for voting.
22. Jacob Riis: Wrote How the Other Half Lives – photos and descriptions of city slums
23. Carry Nation: went in saloons with an ax and broke bottles and bars
24. Thomas Nast: drew cartoons of Boss Tweed
25. Jane Addams: Started Hull House (settlement house)
26. Ida Tarbell: wrote History of Standard Oil – exposed Rockefeller because he put her dad out of
business
27. Ida B. Wells – a journalist who exposed lynching and the terrible living conditions for African
Americans in the South
28. Booker T. Washington - wanted equal rights for African Americans. Felt
29. Theodore Roosevelt: conservation, trustbuster, square deal
30. Boss Tweed: Ran Tammany Hall and stole millions from NYC
Key Ideas:
1. Primary Causes of Problems in late 1800’s / early 1900’s
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Industrialization
2. How did muckrakers try to improve life in America?
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Exposed problems in phots, books, magazines, and newspapers
They used their positions to steal money from the city
3. How was Theodore Roosevelt different from previous presidents?
- He was first to have government regulate business and try to solve nation’s problems.
4. How did Americans benefit from Progressive Reforms:
Political
Problem
Government officials respond to
special interests instead of public
interests
Corrupt Politicians
Women lack equal rights
Economic
Unfair business tactics
Unhealthy food and medicines
Solution
Direct Primary, Initiative,
referendum
Recall, Pendleton Civil Service Act
Seventeenth Amendment
Nineteenth Amendment grants
women the right to vote
Sherman Antitrust Act, Clayton
Antitrust Act
Meat Inspection Act, Pure Food
and Drug Act
Loss of wilderness and nature due to T. Roosevelt creates Forest
the spread of industry
Service, establishes wildlife
refuges, national parks, and
national monuments
Social
Lack of government funds
Sixteenth Amendment creates
income tax
Unstable banking system
Alcoholism
Federal Reserve Act
Eighteenth Amendment bans
production and sale of alcohol
Poverty, poor healthcare, and lack of Settlement Houses
education among immigrants and
the working class