Unit 7: Progressive Era Reforms Review
You can use the following information to help you review for the unit test.
Unit Objectives
Think about how you would:
• identify the efforts of Progressive reformers and church groups to aid workers and ease
urban problems
• describe reforms in American education that took place during the progressive era
• list the issues that were addressed by muckrakers
• recall the reforms that made elections more democratic
• explain how reformers sought to reform city and state governments
• describe Theodore Roosevelt’s style of governance
• list ways in which Progressive leaders regulated industry
• describe the events that led to the creation of the Progressive Party
• explain how Woodrow Wilson was elected
• describe how Woodrow Wilson’s reforms affected workers and industry
• summarize the fight for women’s suffrage
Key Concepts
Define each of the following concepts:
Progressive Movement
Reform
Progressives
Suffrage
Social Gospel
Settlement house
Jane Addams
Hull House
Americanization
Assimilate
John Dewey
Muckrakers
Ida Tarbell
Lincoln Steffens
Jacob Riis
Upton Sinclair
City commission
City manager
Robert La Follette
Lobbyist
New York State Tenement House Bill
Direct primary
Seventeenth Amendment
Initiative
Referendum
Recall
National Child Labor Committee
Triangle Shirtwaist Company
Temperance
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Carrie Nation
Eighteenth Amendment
National American Women Suffrage Association
Nineteenth Amendment
Booker T. Washington
National Negro Business League
W.E.B. du Bois
Niagara Movement
National Association for Advancement of Colored People
William McKinley
Anarchist
Theodore Roosevelt
Square Deal
Northern Securities Company
Pure Food and Drug Act
Department of Commerce and Labor
Conservation
William Howard Taft
Election platform
Progressive Party
New Nationalism
Woodrow Wilson
New Freedom
Underwood Tariff Act
Sixteenth Amendment
Federal Reserve Bank
Clayton Anti-Trust Act
Federal Trade Commission
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
Key Questions
Respond to each of the following questions in your own words, and then look back over the unit
to check your answers.
1. What were the aims of Progressive reformers?
2. Who began the Social Gospel, and what was its purpose?
3. What types of activities were provided by settlement houses?
4. How did settlement houses play a role in the Americanization process?
5. What role did muckrakers play in the Progressive Movement?
6. What reforms took place that affected city and state governments?
7. How was more democratic power given to the voting public?
8. How did Progressives aid urban workers?
9. What new roles did women take on during this period?
10. What roles did women’s organizations play in the fight for suffrage?
11. What organizations were created to aid African Americans?
12. What are the major comparisons to and contrasts between Theodore Roosevelt’s and
William Howard Taft’s presidencies?
13. How did Wilson further the Progressive cause?