American Studies
Progressive Era (Ch 5 & 6)
Unit Test Study Guide
1. Progressivism
a. Who were they?
b. What were their
beliefs?
c. Definition of
progressive
2. George Bellows
a. Realism
b. Cliff Dwellers
c. Boxing Theme
3. Walter Rauschenbusch
a. Social Gospel
b. Hell’s Kitchen
4. Florence Kelly
a. National Consumer
League
b. Quote (We can protect
wildlife but…
5. Mother Jones
a. Children’s Crusade
b. Quote (The militant,
not the meek, shall
inherit the earth.”
6. Louis Brandeis & Mueller v.
Oregon
a. Brandeis Breif
b. What was the case
about?
c. Significance
8. Immigration (1880-1920)
a. Characteristics & numbers
b. Problems (xenophobia,
Nativism, The Passing of the Great
Race, literacy tests
9. Jane Addams & Hull House
a. services provided
10. Robert LaFollette & Wisconsin
Experiment
a. Referendum, initiative, recall
11. WEB DeBois
a. NAACP
12. Triangle Factory Fire
a. cause
b. outcome
13. Shoeless Joe Jackson & 1919
World Series
Name_________________________
14. Ty Cobb
a. character (racial)
15. Teddy Roosevelt
a. First modern president
b. Bully Pulpit
c. Northern Securities Case
1. How holding companies
bypass Sherman.
d. How he became president
e. Square Deal
f. Pinchot v Muir view of the
environment
g. Anthracite Coal Strike
of 1902
16. Upton Sinclair & The Jungle
a. What was it about?
b. Define muckraker.
c. His intentions v. the outcome
d. Meat Inspection Act
e. Pure Food and Drug Act
17. Plessy v. Ferguson
a. What was it about?
b. separate but equal doctrine
c. Jim Crow laws
d. Justice Harlan quote: “Our
Constitution…
18. Billy Holiday & Strange Fruit
a. Lynching
19. Booker T. Washington &
Tuskegee Institute
20. Election of 1912
a. Candidates
b. New Freedom v. New
Nationalism
c. Political cartoons
d. Where candidates would fall on
the political spectrum.
21. Wilson Progressivism
a. Underwood Tariff
1. How did it help the consumer
b. Federal Reserve System
1. How did it help restore public
confidence
22. Bossism
a. George Washington Plunkett