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Progressive Era Study Guide
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Why did technology take off with the 2nd industrial Revolution?
Techno Boom( New Ideas, more people more inventions)
List at least 5 New inventions or innovations from the turn of the century:
Newspapers,Bridges,light bulb,Train, Cars
What changes were seen in education at each of the following levels at the end of the 19th
century? For Elementary schools?
Mandatory School Attendance
What changes were seen in education at the each of the following levels at the end of the 19th
century? for High schools
Schools look like our ideal School
What canges were seen in colleges? in the 19th century
More people,More useful subjects
Booker T, Washington and w.e.b Dubois were leaders that pushed for the education of ?
African Americans
What method did Powerful white men use to keep minorities from voting around the turn of the
century?
Literacy Test, Granddaddy clause, poll Tax
What were jim Crow laws?
Segregation of African Americans
Plessy v. Ferguson established the legality of segregation by stating"
Separate But Equal
Why is a court ruling like this so hard to fight?
Because it has two ways to overturn it
What is mass culture?
Exciting times when people start enjoying life
Why do people start to enjoy leisure activities at the turn of the century?
They have TIME
What are some of these activities?
Bicycles, Tennis, baseball, Dime novels
The Progressive Movement is all about What?
Reform.
What does reform mean?
Change Fix
what areas of america needed reformed in the early 1900's?
Social welfare, Child labor, Improved working conditions,
Social Welfare is the idea that society should look after who?
The less fortunate
The temperance movement gained steam during the progressive era with talks of What?
Probition
Which group of people in society was largely responsible for the reform movement?
Women,
What is a muckraker ?
Journalist that wrote about factory's and exposed them
A big issue during the progressive era is the working conditions that many americans must
endure every day. What are the issues?
Child labor, Labor for women , Work hours
list one way the local govts were reformed:
City councils
How was the State govts Reformed?
Senators(laws)
Why are women the key players behind the reform movement?
They Wanted change.
Many women feel that if they could win the fight for _________they could fix many of the other
problems in america.
Suffrage
The outspoken leader of this movement was?
Susan B anthony
This really scares men and industry, why?
Because they want Full Control of the women and they want full power of everything els.
Unfortunately she will not live to see the victory of the _________ Movement with comes with
the passing of the _____ amendment
Suffrage, 19th amendment
This admentment is a rusult of the movement and women's involvement in
Ww1
How was Theodore Roosevelt become president?
President William McKinley dies
what was Roosevelt's " square Deal" ?
To help the people
Roosevelt fought to break up trust that ____the people of america
Hurt
What is a trust?
where One company controls another company. that's a monopoly
How does trust affect the people?
It rasies prices
Rooselvelt took some heat for helping to end a ______of coal miners by taking them to
arbitration at the white house
Strike
_________the one who wrote the book The jungle
upton sinclair
The pure food and drug act made sure of two things factorys did?
List ingredients and end false claims
teddy roosevelt was our youngest presendent and also the first to be called a conservationist
why?
Took care of the enviroment..
who was elected after roosevelt. What was he ?
Taft .. Republican
Why did teddy bulid the bull moose party?
Because he was not happy at talf or what he was doing
who won the election of 1912?
Wilson
How did wilson win the election of 1912
goverment divided party votes
wilsons " new freedom" sought to reform what 3 areas ?
Taffirs, trust , high finance
what did clayton antitrust act outlaw?
Monopoly
What does the federal trade commission do?
ends monopoly
The underwood acts reduces, What
Tariff rates
What problem does this cause?
Government will lose money
The ______ amendment solves this problem by esablishing a _____ tax
16 , income
what banking system is established to address the nations finacial problem
f.r.s federal reserve system