Unit 5 Study Guide
Review and study the following for the test;
 Vocabulary
 Key people
 Notes
 Reading list
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Progressive Presidents
The Wizard of Oz
The Jungle
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1. What are the 3 main goals of Progressivism?
a. Reforming government and expanding democracy
b. Promoting social welfare
c. Creating economic reform
2. What is a settlement house and who started Hull house? Jane Addams started the Hull
House in Chicago as a place that the community could go for education, assistance and
support. 1889
3. Which group of people did not have their rights pursued during the Progressive Era?
African Americans
4. What is the Square Deal? President Roosevelt felt that the government was to be an
umpire for the workers, consumer and big business.
5. Who wrote The Jungle and what legislation was passed because of it?
Upton Sinclair. The Meat Inspection Act of 1906
6. What is a muckraker? The term for a journalist who exposed corruption in American
society around the early 1900s
7. Who is known for his strong push for conservation and what did he establish? Teddy
Roosevelt. He passed the Antiquities Act that set aside 230 million acres of land for the
National Park Service.
8. Which of the 4 Amendments passed in this time period was Progressive (returning
power to the people)? (Hint: page 647-648 in the text book) The 17th and 16th
amendments. The 16th amendment gave Congress the right to tax person income,
making it the responsibility of all the citizens to support the cost of running the
government. The 17th amendment gave the power of electing their senators to the
person. Prior to the 17th amendment the senators were elected by other politicians,
after the amendment the citizens elected the senators through direct elections.
9. Describe how Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Matilda Joslyn Gage and
Lucretia Mott helped in passing the 19th Amendment. Each of these women
contributed by bringing attention to women’s rights (and African Americans and Native
Americans) to the public. Public speaking, writing speeches, fund raising…
10. Who starts an initiative? The people, we, I
11. Who starts a referendum? The legislature, Congress
12. Know the amendments passed during the Progressive Era (16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th)
a. National Income Tax
b. Direct election of Senators
c. Prohibition (banning alcohol)
d. Women’s right to vote
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13. How many counties does Arizona have? 15
14. What is the date that Arizona became a state? February 14, 1912
15. Who is the president who signed the papers for Arizona’s statehood?
William Howard Taft
16. What countries owned the area that became the state of Arizona before the United
States? Mexico and Spain
17.What is a direct primary? Voters, rather than party conventions, choose candidates to
run for public office.
18. What was free silver/the silver standard and who proposed it?
By using silver and gold to back our money, bimetallism Bryan thought it would help the
farmers in the mid-west. William Jennings Bryan
19. Who would have benefited from the silver standard?
The mid-west farmer because it would have caused an increase in the price of crops
20. Why is Teddy Roosevelt known as a “trust buster”? He used the Sherman Anti-trust Act
to regulate big businesses and to get rid of monopolies.
21. What was the temperance movement? The idea that alcohol was causing violence and
problems in families. They saw the banning of alcohol as a way to make society better.
22. Who were the 3 progressive presidents? Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft and
Woodrow Wilson.
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Complete the chart with the items from the Progressive Era. Include a brief description.
The Wizard of Oz
The Progressive Era
The average mid-western person. This group of people was
Dorothy Gale
suffering because of dropping prices and mother nature.
The leader of Coxey’s Army.
The idea that the silver standard would increase prices
helping the mid-western farmer. In the movie the slippers
Silver/ruby slippers
were red or ruby to showcase the new color process for
film.
The average farmer. Usually seen as hillbilly or hickey but
The Scarecrow
not smart. I reality farmers are very smart and it is the
Scarecrow who makes all the decisions for the group.
The de-humanization of the worker. The assembly line has
The Tin Man
made work repetitive and boring.
William Jennings Bryan: He ran 3 times as a Populist party
candidate for president. The group of people that he tried
The Cowardly Lion
to help was the farmers. It was he who proposed the idea
of the silver standard.
The gold standard, used to back the money/currency
The Yellow Brick Road
The Wizard/Professor Marvel
The Good Witch, Glinda
The Wicked Witch of the West
The Wicked Witch of the East
The Munchkins
The Emerald City
Dorothy’s House
The Presidents of the late 1800s. Most were from the midwest and they tried to help or make happy everyone.
The Populist party. It is Glinda that gives Dorothy the silver
slippers and at the end of the movie tells her that she has
always had the way to get back home or the way to solve
the financial problems of the farmer was the silver
standard.
Mother nature is not being kind to the farmers of the midwest. At the end of the movie Dorothy throws water on the
witch and melts her. It is the need for rain that will help the
farmers.
The financiers and monopolies. Dorothy’s house kills the
witch freeing the Munchkins. The Sherman Anti-trust Act
regulates big business and helps the average worker.
The average working person in the east.
Washington, D. C. Most look to the government to help
them with their problems. It is Coxey’s Army that marches
from Ohio to Washington to get help from the President
because they have been out of work.
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act
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Standard Oil/Octopus
Shipping
The Congress
The White House
Key points to discuss in your essay
 Sherman Anti-trust Act
 President Roosevelt
 Monopolies
 Laizze Faire Economics
State Capitals
Railroads
Other businesses and workers