Goal 7
Objective Sheet
Objective 7.01 Explain the conditions that led to the rise of Progressivism.
Major Concepts:
Corruption in government
Immigration
Urban Poor
Working Conditions
Social Gospel
Unequal distribution of wealth
Vocabulary:
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_______________Editor of McClure’s Magazine, one of the most famous and influential muckrakers
_______________New York police reporter from Denmark, wrote about and took pictures of life in the
slums of the big cities
_______________Wrote “The Jungle”, exposed the meat packing industry in Chicago
_______________Journalist that exposed evils in society
_______________Poor areas of the big cities
_______________Female Muckraker that tried to expose corruption in The Standard Oil Company
_______________146 workers, mainly female die in a fire leading to women and child labor reform
Homework:
1. How did the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire change the way that Americans view Big Business leaders?
Objective 7.02 Analyze how different groups of Americans made economic and political gains in the
Progressive Period
Major Concepts:
Progressive Presidents: T. Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson
Influence of women
Changing roles of state and local government
Vocabulary:
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_______________Prohibition Amendment to the Constitution
_______________Direct Election of Senators Amendment to the Constitution
_______________Name given to Progressive Party in 1912 Presidential Election, candidate from this 3 rd
party was Theodore Roosevelt
K. _______________Income Tax Amendment to the Constitution
L. _______________Railroad Trust headed by J.P. Morgan, broken up by the Sherman Anti-trust Act
M. _______________Showed weakness in the Sherman Anti-trust Act, could not break up sugar monopoly
N. _______________Made it illegal for railroads to give rebates for using a particular railroad company
extended the Interstate Commerce Act to include communications
O. _______________Woodrow Wilson vs. William Howard Taft and Teddy Roosevelt, won by Wilson
P. _______________Sherman Anti-trust Act used to break up American Tobacco into several different
companies
Q. _______________Tax on imports in the history of the United States, it split the Republican Party between
Taft and Roosevelt
R. _______________Act that outlawed restraint of trade, purpose was to break up trusts and monopolies, used
by management against striking unions
S. _______________Republican from Wisconsin, lead way in regulating big business, especially railroad
industry
T. _______________Divided the nation into 12 banking districts and established a regional central bank in each
one, purpose was to solidify the currency and stabilize the economy
U. _______________Social reformer that started a settlement house called The Hull House
V. _______________Coal Strike of 1902, United Mine workers go on strike, President T. Roosevelt threatens to
send in the military to take over the mines if the workers do not go back to work
W. _______________Women’s Suffrage Amendment to the Constitution
X. _______________Female that worked for prohibition by walking into saloons with a hatchet and scolding
customers while destroying liquor bottles
Homework:
1. What happened to the Trusts during the Progressive Period? What were the specific court cases?
2. Describe the events surrounding the 1912 Presidential Election.
Objective 7.03 Evaluate the effects of racial segregation on different regions and segments of the
United States’ society.
Major Concepts:
Disenfranchisement
Segregated Society
Vocabulary:
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_______________She was a teacher, editor of local newspaper, fought against lynching
_______________Meeting of leading African Americans to discuss the movement for equal rights for
African Americans at Niagara Falls
_______________Court Case that established the doctrine of “separate but equal”
_______________Organization started by WEB Dubois and other African Americans for equal rights,
established by leaders of the Niagara Movement
_______________Movement of African Americans from the South to the North before, during and after
WWI
_______________A person’s eligibility to vote is determined by whether their grandfather could vote meant
to disenfranchise black voters
_______________Killing or torturing someone because of their race, beliefs
_______________African American educator; everyone’s money is green, African Americans should seek
equality through vocational training and employment
_______________To deny a person their right to vote
_______________Testing a person literacy to determine their eligibility to vote, meant to disenfranchise
black voters
_______________A tax to determine a person’s eligibility to vote meant to disenfranchise black voters
_______________African American Educator, 1st African American to graduate from Harvard, African
American should seek Academic education and demand immediate equal rights including the right to vote
_______________Speech by Booker T. Washington asking African Americans to go to work and Southern
Whites to hire them
Homework:
1. Why did WEB Dubois call Booker T. Washington’s speech in Atlanta the “Compromise” speech?
2. How did white Americans keep African Americans from voting?
Objective 7.04 Examine the impact of technological changes on economic, social and cultural life in
the United States
Major Concepts:
Industrial Innovations
Advertising and Consumerism
Vocabulary:
LL. _______________Made clothes making more economical, invented by Elias Howe and perfected by Isaac
Singer
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_______________Sears and Roebuck, Montgomery Ward
NN. _______________Camera developed by George Eastman, Camera could be bought for $25 and film could be
developed and camera reloaded for $10
OO. _______________$5 day, assembly line, 8-10 hour workday, workers as consumers
PP. _______________Public amazement at tall buildings, made possible by steel skeletons
QQ. _______________Orville and Wilbur, 1st in flight, bicycle shop owners
RR. _______________1st commercial use of plane was for mail delivery
SS. _______________Moving pictures made possible by George Eastman and WK Dickson’s celluloid film
TT. _______________Drink developed by a drug store clerk as an energy drink and cure for headaches
UU. _______________Developed for home use by people like George Westinghouse and Thomas Edison
Homework:
1. What were Ford’s innovations?
2. How did technological changes affect life in the United States