Study Guide
Chapter 17 Section 1 & 2
You need to be able to define the following terms. These will be matching or multiple choice.
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Recall: this enabled voters to remove public officials from elected positions by forcing them to
face an election before the end of their term if enough voters requested it
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Initiative: This is a bill initiated, or launched, by citizens
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Prohibition: Members of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union fought for this cause by
entering saloons, singing, praying, and asking saloonkeepers to stop selling alcohol
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Referendum: This is a vote on an initiative
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Muckraker: This is a term used to describe a journalist who exposed government abuses and big
business corruption to the readers of mass circulation magazines and newspapers.
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Florence Kelley: This progressive championed the rights of women and children by moving into a
settlement house, working as the Chief Inspector of Factories for Illinois, and helping to win
passage of the Illinois Factory Act.
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Robert M. LaFollette: This reform governor and US Senator from Wisconsin made the railroad
industry a major target.
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Scientific management: This was one of the inspirations for the creation of assembly lines at the
Ford Motor Company.
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Progressive movement: This included a series of reform efforts that aimed to correct injustices
in American life.
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Seventeenth Amendment: This allowed for the popular, or direct, election of U.S. senators
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Susette LaFlesche: A Native American woman who spoke out for the Ponca people
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NACW: National Association of Colored Women
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Suffrage: the right to vote
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Susan B Anthony: the leader in the woman’s suffrage movement
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NAWSA: Nation American Woman Suffrage Association
You should be able to discuss one of the reform movements:
Reform
Social
Goal
To improve the lives of
the poor
People/ groups
YMCA, Salvation Army,
Florence Kelley
Moral
To improve the lives of
the poor
Economic
To reform capitalism or
replace it with socialism.
Make industry and
business more efficient
or profitable
Woman’s Christian
Temperance Union, AntiSaloon League
The Socialist party, Eugene
Debs, muckrakers
Henry Ford, Ford Motor,
Frederick Winslow Taylor
Industrial
efficiency
Local government Root out corruption and
to make government
more responsive to the
need of its citizens
City mayors Hazen Pingree
and Tom Johnson
State government
Robert M. La Follette
Protect Workers
Election
Root out corruption and
to make government
more responsive to the
needs of the citizens
Obtaining better working
conditions and benefits
for adult workers and
outlawing child labor
Root out corruption and
to make government
more responsive to the
needs of the citizens
Successes
Establishment of a variety
of public institutions such
as parks and settlement
houses
Adoption of prohibition by
many town and state
governments
Public exposure of
corruption
Widespread adoption of
the theory of scientific
management, the Ford
Assembly line and the “Five
Dollar Day”
Widespread adoption of
the commission and
council-manager forms of
government and property
tax reforms
Wisconsin laws that
managed to regulate the
railroads.
National Child Labor
Committee, Florence Kelley
Passage of the workers’
compensation laws
William S. U’ren
Widespread adoption of
the secret ballot; adoption
by some states of the
initiative, referendum,
recall, and direct primary;
passage of the 17th
Amendment
Discuss the three strategies that leaders of the suffrage movement adopted to win suffrage?
Strategies
Results
Women tried to convince state
Utah, Colorado, Idaho, and Wyoming did give women the vote but
legislatures to grant women the right
efforts in other states failed
to vote
Women pursued court cases to test the A Supreme Court’s ruling that women were citizens but that
14th Amendment
citizenship did not automatically include the right to vote
Women pushed for a national
For 18 years, whenever the amendment reached the Senate floor
constitutional amendment granting
for a vote, it was rejected
women the vote