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Chapter 5 ID’s and Questions: The Progressive Era 1900-1917
Section 1: The American People Clamored for Reform
1. What is meant by the term progressivism?
2. What is a muckraker, and what role did they play during this period?
3. What was the significance of Muller v. Oregon?
4. Carrie Chapman Catt:
5. W.E.B. du Bois:
6. NAACP:
7. The Jungle:
9. How did women work to achieve equality during the Progressive Era?
10. How did African Americans fight segregation and the limitation of their civil rights during the early
1900’s?
Section 2: Progressive Ideas Transformed Politics
1. commission system
2. city-manager plan
3. Robert M. La Follette
4. direct primary
5. initiative
6. referendum
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7. recall
8. Pure Food and Drug Act
9. Meat Inspection Act
10. Describe two reforms that progressives demanded at the local level.
11. What measures did reformers introduce to end corruption at the state level?
12. How did reformers expand the activities of state and federal governments?
13. What did progressive lawmakers at the federal level do to change the conditions described in The Jungle?
Section 3: Progressive Reforms Reached the National Level
1. Theodore Roosevelt:
2. What does the term trustbusting mean?
3. Hepburn Act:
4. arbitration:
5. How did Teddy Roosevelt challenge the trusts?
6. What did President Theodore Roosevelt do for the coal miners?
7. Who controlled the trust that operated the Pennsylvania mines?
8. How did most Americans feel about the trustbusting measures?
9. What was President Theodore Roosevelt’s main objective after he became dissatisfied with the trustbusting
approach to big business?
10. What gave the ICC power to set maximum railroad rates?
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11. On whose behalf (side) did President Theodore Roosevelt intervene in the 1902 coal strike?
12. How did Roosevelt end the Pennsylvania coal strike of 1902?
13. Which of the following resulted from Roosevelt’s intervention in the Pennsylvania coal strike of 1902?
14. Who won the presidential election in 1904?
Section 4: The West Gained Political Power
1. water rights:
2. conservation:
3. reclamation:
4. John Muir:
5. Gifford Pinchot:
6. William Howard Taft:
7. 16th Amendment:
8. 17th Amendment:
9. Progressive Party:
10. Woodrow Wilson:
11. Explain how the geographic distribution of water shaped western development.
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12. How did western economic growth give rise to conservation as a national movement?
13. How did Theodore Roosevelt act to promote the conservation of natural resources?
14. How did William Howard Taft alienate the conservationists?
15. Explain how a split in the Republican Party cost the Republicans the presidential election of 1912.
Section 5: Woodrow Wilson won sweeping reforms
1. workmen’s compensation:
2. Underwood Tariff:
3. Federal Reserve Act:
4. Federal Trade Commission:
5. Clayton Antitrust Act:
6. Why was Wilson in a better position to be an active progressive president than was Theodore Roosevelt?
7. What three acts passed during Wilson’s administration were designed to curb the power of big business?
8. What group made little headway in the fight against segregation during Wilson’s administration?
9. In what ways was Woodrow Wilson’s record of reform uneven?
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