Goal 7 U.S. History Study Guide
Be able to identify the items on the key terms list as well as answer the questions below:
1.
What is progressivism?
2.
Who were the muckrakers?
3.
Explain the significance of: a.
Ida Tarbell b.
Lincoln Steffens c.
Jacob Riis d.
Upton Sinclair
4.
Who was responsible for calling for expanded democracy?
5.
What is a direct primary?
6.
What is the difference between an initiative and a referendum?
7.
What is a recall?
8.
What did the 17 th Amendment do?
9.
What is suffrage?
10.
Why is Susan B. Anthony significant?
11.
What part of the country gave women suffrage first?
12.
What did the 19 th
Amendment do?
13.
What was the most emotional issue for the progressives?
14.
What were conditions like for child laborers?
15.
What were conditions like for adult laborers, especially if they got injured/killed?
16.
Describe the events of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.
17.
What did many progressives think was the root of society’s problems?
18.
How did the goals of the temperance movement change over time?
19.
Define prohibition.
20.
How did Theodore Roosevelt come to power?
21.
How was Roosevelt both a Social Darwinist and a Progressive?
22.
What did Roosevelt mean by a “square deal”?
23.
What happened in Northern Securities v. United States ?
24.
How did Roosevelt address the Anthracite Strike/Coal Strike of 1902?
25.
Describe Roosevelt’s approach to big business with ONE word.
26.
What executive department did Roosevelt create?
27.
What were the terms of the “gentlemen’s agreements”?
28.
How did Roosevelt react to Upton Sinclair’s book?
29.
What did the Meat Inspection Act do?
30.
What did the Pure Food and Drug Act do?
31.
Why did Taft win the election of 1908 so easily?
32.
How did the public feel about Taft at the end of his term?
33.
What did Taft’s Children’s Bureau do?
34.
What did Roosevelt do in the Election of 1912?
35.
Why was the Progressive Party also called the Bull-Moose Party?
36.
What was the difference between Roosevelt’s platform and Woodrow Wilson’s platform?
37.
Why did Wilson win the Election of 1912?

38.
Why did Wilson want to lower tariffs?
39.
What did Wilson do to make up for government revenue that was lost by the
Underwood Tariff?
40.
What did the 16 th
Amendment do?
41.
Why was the Federal Reserve created?
42.
What was the purpose of the Federal Trade Commission?
43.
What did the Clayton Antitrust Act do?
44.
What did the Keating-Owen Child Labor Act do?
45.
What did the Adamson Act do?
46.
What did the Farm Loan Act do?
47.
How did Progressivism change the role of government in American society?
48.
What were conditions like for blacks after Reconstruction?
49.
How did southern states get around the 15 th Amendment? (3 ways)
50.
What did Jim Crow laws do?
51.
What is the difference between de jure segregation and de facto segregation?
52.
What did Plessy v. Ferguson establish?
53.
What happened in the Wilmington Race Riot?
54.
What is lynching?
55.
How did lynching violate the Constitution?
56.
Who was Ida B. Wells?
57.
What was Booker T. Washington’s approach to ending segregation?
58.
What did Washington’s Atlanta Compromise Speech say?
59.
What was W.E.B. Du Bois’ approach to ending segregation?
60.
What was the result of the Niagara Movement?
61.
What is the main difference between Washington and Du Bois?