Name: ______Date: ______
Chapter 15 and 16: Life at the turn of the Twentieth Century and the Progressive Era
Study Guide
1. ______was an immigration station in New York Harbor, while ______was an immigration station in San Francisco bay.
2. The efforts of Denis Kearney led to the passage of the ______that barred Chinese immigrants for 10 years.
3. Theodore Roosevelt negotiated the ______with Japan to stop unskilled Japanese workers from coming to the United States.
4. Reformer Jane Addams established a settlement house in Chicago called ______.
5. The popular idea that religious faith should be shown through good works was called the ______.
6. Tamany Hall was a famous political machine that was run by ______.
7. Political cartoonist ______attacked the corruption of politicians.
8. The administration of President ______was plagued by many scandals, particularly the ______scandal that involved rail road fraud.
9. The “spoils system” led to the assassination of President ______.
10. This assassination ultimately led to a civil service reform law called ______.
11. Farmers who were in financial despair organized the ______to fight railroads and banks.
12. The farmers organizations led to the creation of a political party called the ______that supported key issues like free silver.
13. In the 1896 election the Democrats nominated ______who campaigned on a platform of free silver
14. In spite of their efforts, ______won the election of 1898 in support of the gold standard.
15. Despite the 14th and 15th amendments to the constitution, southern states continued to keep African-Americans from voting by paying voters pay ______.
16. Southern states also created and enforced segregation laws called ______.
17. When segregation laws were challenged, the Supreme Court ruled in ______that segregation was legal.
18. Unwritten rules of behavior referred to as ______were also imposed on African Americans in the south.
19. To combat discrimination, civil rights leader ______founded Tuskegee Institute, so that African Americans could learn practical skills.
20. ______, on the other hand believed that African Americans should fight for total equality and full rights immediately.
21. The movement that fought the problems brought about by industrialization was called ______.
22. Journalist known as ______helped expose these problems .
23. ______wrote scathing reports condemning the business practices of the Standard Oil Company.
24. In Shame of the Cities ______wrote about the corruption of city government.
25. ______called people’s attention to the problems of the Urban Poor by publishing a book of photographs called How the Other Half Lives.
26. The ______was formed in 1909 to fight for civil rights for African Americans, and the ADL was founded to fight ______, or hostility toward Jews.
27. The power of voters to elect senators directly was added to the constitution in the ______amendment.
28. Progressives urged states to adopt election reform measures like ______which allows voters to put a proposed law on the ballot, ______that allows citizens to vote on a proposed law, and ______which allows citizens to remove an elected official from office.
29. Women worked for ______, the movement calling for a ban on making, selling, and transporting alcohol.
30. The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union was led by ______.
31. While some states did allow women to vote, Women’s suffrage did not become a national law until the ______amendment was added to the constitution.
32. ______became president when William McKinley was shot.
33. He believed he should use the “bully Pulpit” to push through his domestic policies he called the ______.
34. After Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle exposed the filthy conditions of the Meatpacking industry, the ______was passed that would require the federal government to inspect meet shipped across state lines.
35. Naturalist ______convinced the government to protect Yosemite National Park.
36. When Howard Taft became president, the ______amendment was added to the constitution which allowed Congress to collect taxes based on an individual’s income.
37. Theodore Roosevelt formed the ______, or “Bull Moose” party because he thought that President Taft had failed to continue his policies of progressive reform.
38. Woodrow Wilson’s presidency was marked by economic reforms like the ______which was meant to prevent bank collapse during financial panics and the ______that prohibiting monopolies and allowing workers to strike.
Short Answer: Include at least three of the bold face terms in your answer.
1. How did “new” immigrants differ from “old” Immigrants? (protestants, Catholics, Jews, Nativists, Eastern and southern Europe)
2. How did life in the cities differ for wealthy, middle-class, and working-class people? (Gilded Age, Cornelius Vanderbilt, professionalism, Tenements)
3. What were some examples of political corruption in the Gilded Age? ( political machines, William Marcy Tweed, Tamany Hall, Credit Mobilier, Whiskey Ring, Ulysses S. Grant )
4. How did Presidents Hayes and Arthur begin civil service reform? (spoils system, James A. Garfield, Charles Guiteau, Pendleton Civil Service Act)
5. What problems did farmers face after the civil war, and how did the Populist party want to address these problems? (deflation, gold standard, free silver, National Grange, Populist Party, Interstate Commerce Act)
6. What challenges did African-Americans face after the Civil War? ( poll taxes, grandfather clauses Ku Klux Klan, Jim Crow Laws, Plessy v. Ferguson, racial Etiquette, lynching)
7. How did the philosophies of Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois , and Marcus Garvey differ? (Tuskegee Institute, Atlanta Compromise, NAACP, Back to Africa Movement)
8. Who were the Muckrakers, and what were their reform efforts? Why would reform have been less likely to occur without them? (Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, Jacob Riis, Upton Sinclair, Meat Inspection Act, Pure Food and Drug Act, Tenement Act of 1901, minimum wage)
9. How did progressives reform government at the national, state and local levels? (city commissions, Seventeenth Amendment, initiative, referendum, recall, direct primary)
10. How did the women’s suffrage movement campaign for the vote? (Christian Women’s Temperance Union, Susan B. Anthony, National Woman’s Suffrage Association. 15th Amendment, 19th Amendment)
11. What role did Tennessee play in the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment? (Perfect 36, Anne Dallas Dudley, Harry Burn, Governor Albert Roberts)
12. What measures did Theodore Roosevelt take to regulate business, and protect consumers? ( “trust-busting”, Elkins Act, Hepburn Act, Meat Inspection Act Pure Food and Drug Act)
13. What were the major areas of reform in Wilson’s New Freedom? (New Freedom, Federal Reserve Act, Clayton Anti-Trust Act)