Review for Progressive Unit Test:

Name ______

What does"separate but equal" mean?
It’s ok to discriminate based a person’s race, you can have separate schools, churches, etc. / What was the purpose of the grandfather clause, poll taxes, and literacy tests?
To stop African Americans in the south from voting / What tragedy caused people to fight for safer working conditions in factories?
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
What did The Jungle expose?
Unsanitary conditions in the meat packing industry / In what ways were African Americans segregated in the South?
They were forced to stay separate from whites in all parts of life
Jim Crow Laws / What happened at the Seneca Falls Convention?
Start of the women’s rights movement, signing of the Declaration of Sentiments
What governor introduced the Wisconsin Idea?
Robert LaFollette / What reforms were introduced in the Wisconsin Idea?
Initiative
Referendum
Recall / What person did Thomas Nast expose by drawing political cartoons?
Boss Tweed
What law was supposed to end abuse on the railroad?
Interstate Commerce Act / What two issueswas Roosevelt concerned with?
Trust-busting and Conservation / Why did Progressives want voters to have more power?
To help get rid of corruption in government with their votes
What was the primary goal of women in the early 1900's?
To get the right to vote (suffrage) / How were women treated in the late 1800's and early 1900's?
Treated as second class citizens, few rights, lower pay, no power / Why did Carrie Nation want to prohibit alcohol?
She wanted to protect families and she felt alcohol was ruining families
Who wanted an amendment to the constitution for suffrage? Who did NOT?
Alice Paul and Lucy Burns wanted an Amendment
Carrie Chapman Catt wanted to go state by state / Which muckraker's book helped pass the Pure Food and Drug Act?
Upton Sinclair / What did Plessy vs. Ferguson say about segregation?
It was ok to segregate in the south as long as facilities were equal
What did WEB DuBois believe about civil rights?
DuBois demanded immediate equality for African Americans / What did Booker T.Washington believe about civil rights?
African Americans needed to get educated so they could prove themselves equal / What issues were important to Jane Addams?
Helping the poor
Founding hull house
Civil Rights, equality
Women’s issues including voting rights
Why weren't workers successful in the Haymarket Riot, Pullman Strike, & Homestead Strike?
The government kept siding with the factory bosses and not helping the unions or the workers / What were the goals of the Knights of Labor?
End all child labor, more pay, equal treatment for all workers, wanted government to regulate all trusts / What were the goals of the American Federation of Labor?
They wanted to improve working conditions and pay, very realistic goals
Who was Jacob Riis and what did he accomplish?
A photographer and he exposed the horrible conditions in the cities tenement houses / Who was Ida Tarbell and what did she accomplish?
Wrote The History Of Standard Oil and exposed the monopoly of John D. Rockefeller’s business / Who was Lewis Hine and what did he accomplish?
He was a photographer that took pictures of children working to expose the horrors of child labor
Who was Ida Wells Barnett and what did she accomplish?
A writer and activist that tried to expose the horrible lynching’s in the south / Who was Thomas Nast and what did he accomplish?
A cartoon artist that tried to expose Boss Tweed and his corruption in NYC / Who was Upton Sinclair and what did he accomplish?
A writer who wrote the The Jungle that exposed the meat packing industry
The 16th Amendment said…
Government could now collect income taxes / The 17th Amendment said…
The people would now directly elect their senators / The 18th Amendment said…
Alcohol was now banned for sale or production in the United States
The 19th Amendment said…
Women now had the right to vote / What is a Recall?
When the voters are allowed to remove an elected official from office / What is a Referendum?
Gave voters the power to make a bill become a law by voting on it
What is an Initiative?
Allows voters to propose a new law by getting enough people to sign a petition supporting it / How can one person make a difference?
MANY POSSIBLE ANSWERS / What was Hull House?
Settlement house in Chicago that helped the poor, started by
Jane Addams