1. The Progressive Movement
Fixing the problems caused during the Gilded Age/Industrial Revolution

2. Muckrackers
Writers and photographers who helped spread the word about the plight of immigrants and urban life.
They helped force the government to make changes
By 1900 America was pushing for change

3. What were the goals of the Progressives?
Women’s suffrage
Main leaders: Susan B. Anthony, Alice Paul, and Carrie Chapman Catt
Equal Rights (NAACP starts)
Protection for Workers
Protection for Consumers
Help for immigrants

4. How did Progressive’s help workers?
Limit hours per day/week.
NO child labor
Help Unions gain power
Workers compensation
Safer working conditions
Job protection (can’t be fired without a cause)

5. How did Progressives want to help immigrants/poor?
Health and Safety codes
Triangle Shirt Waist fire brought an outcry for changes.
150 women killed because they were locked inside a burning building.
Settlement Houses started (like community centers)
Teach English
Provide Child care
Activities to help people assimilate

6. How did Progressives want to help consumers?
Meat Inspection Act
Pure Food and Drug Act

7. How did progressives want to protect all businesses?
ICC Interstate Commerce Commission
Made sure trade was fair for all businesses
Stop Trusts and Monopolies

8. How did Progressives want to help make government more efficient and fair?
Direct Primary
Direct Election of Senators (17th Amendment)
Initiatives
Referendum
Recall

9. What group helped the Progressive’s spread the word about the problems in America?
A. Populists
B. Muckrakers
C. Settlement Houses
D. Immigrants

10. How did Jacob Riis expose the filth?
Photography
Writer
Politician
Immigrant

11. Which of the following is an example of a progressive governmental-reform?
Zoning Laws
Health Codes
Child Labor Laws
Direct Election of Senators

12. Which group was trying to fix societies problems?
Populists
Political Machines
Progressives
Settlement Houses

13. Progressives were trying to help Women with what?
Suffrage
Prohibition
Abolishment
Title 9

14. Progressive Movement
Roosevelt
Taft
Wilson

15. Progressive Era
Roosevelt believed everyone deserved a “Square Deal”. A square is EQUAL on all sides.
What did Roosevelt mean by a square deal?
Everyone would have a chance.
He would fight misconduct by businesses
Everyone had an EQUAL chance

16. Progressive Era How did Roosevelt provide a square deal?
Used the Sherman Anti-trust act to fight monopolies
Helped the coal-miners win arbitration with the owners.
Made the government step in to help all citizens. Not just the business owners.

17. What law allowed the ICC to set RR rates?
A. Sherman Ant-trust act
B. Hepburn Act
C. Clayton Anti-trust act
D. The Pure Food and Drug act

18. Which of the following best explains the term arbitration?
A. The federal government decides
B. One side in an argument allowing the other to make a decision.
C. Two sides in an argument allowing a third party to make the decision.
D. Neither side in an argument ever agreeing

19. This act states all food must be labeled correctly and be pure.
A. Pure Food and Drug Act.
B. Meat Inspection Act
C. Hepburn Act
D. Upton Sinclair

20. Progressive Era: square deal cont.
Set up a government agency to track business practices.
Pushed for the Hepburn act which gave the ICC the power to set RR rates.
Pushed for the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and drug act. (Because of the book The Jungle)

21. Progressive era: conservation
How did Roosevelt protect and develop America’s Natural resources?
Had the federal government pay for irrigation and land development.
Started the US forest service which managed the timber and forest lands.
Saved 100 million acres of forest land, created 5 national parks, and 51 federal wildlife preserves.

22. Progressive era: Roosevelt v. Taft
How did Taft and Roosevelt differ?
Against Roosevelt’s wishes Taft attacked the high tariff but failed when he signed a bill that barely cut taxes.
Taft ‘s choice for Secretary of the Interior sold many federal lands for development.
The best of Taft:
Brought twice as many suits against companies as TR.
Surpassed TR in conservation
Established Children’s Bureau

23. Progressive Era: Wilson
Wilson won the election of 1912 because the Republican vote split between Taft and TR (who started a new “Progressive Party”)
Wilson shared many of TR’s ideas.

24. Which of the following was not TR a idea?
A. conservation
B. working with companies to monitor business practices.
C. Children’s Bureau
D. Hepburn Act

25. Which of the following was NOT Wilson’s achievement?
A. FTC
B. Federal Reserve Act
C. Clayton Ant-trust Act
D. Pure Food and Drug Act

26. Which of the following was created as a direct result of the The Jungle?
A. Meat Inspection Act
B. Children’s Bureau
C. Federal Reserve Act
D. ICC

27. Progressive era: Wilson’s reforms
Lowered the tariff
Started an income tax
Established the Federal Reserve Act
Established the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
This protected businesses from anything that hurt competition

28. Progressive era: African Americans
African Americans were fueled by the success of the Progressives. - the NAACP was started to help solidify voting rights. - W.E.B. DuBois believed voting would save them from a “second slavery” and provide “…work, culture, liberty, -all these we need, not singly but together.”

29. Progressive Era: African Americans
During the Progressive Era President Wilson officially segregated Washington D.C.