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09/14/2014

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Term
Who favored slow and moderate change for the rights of Black Americans?
Definition
Booker T. Washington
Term
Who favored free love, contraception, and women's emancipation?
Definition
Emma Goldman and Margaret Sanger
Term
What type of women supported the Progressive agenda?
Definition
middle class women
Term
What was the most significant achievement of Progressive women?
Definition
The settlement house, which by 1900, 100 settlements existed
Term
Who founded the Hull House in Chicago?
Definition
Jane Addams
Term
What were 5 things that settlement house residents supported?
Definition
juvenile courts
compulsory education laws
housing laws
factory regulation
sanitation measures
Term
What piece of legislation did law enforcement use to undermine Jack Johnson?
Definition
Mann Act
Term
Which fire caused the deaths of 146 women workers in 1911?
Definition
Triangle Fire
Term
Who argued in "An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution" (1913) that the American upper class pushed for a new constitution in 1786-87 to protect its economic interests?
Definition
Charles Beard
Term
What regions in Europe did the majority of immigrants who arrived in the US between 1890 and the start of WWI come from?
Definition
Southern and Eastern Europe
Term
What president was an advocate for environmental conservation?
Definition
Teddy Roosevelt
Term
During his presidency who achieved most of his progressive agenda?
Definition
Woodrow Wilson
Term
What movement drew support primarily from farmers?
Definition
Populism
Term
What movement drew its support primarily from city dwellers, middle classes and had a wide following?
Definition
Progressivism
Term
What 2 things did progressives see as potentially disruptive forces?
Definition
industrialization and urbanization
Term
What was created in 1901 that symbolized the growth of industry, its consolidation and its domination of the market? Who purchased it?
Definition
the creation of the US Steel Corporation purchased by JP Morgan from Andrew Carnegie
Term
Who was most directly affected by the growth of industry?
Definition
Factory workers
Term
what three issues did reformers focus on to improve conditions for factory workers?
Definition
compensating workers injured on the job
regulating the hours and wages of working women
and restricting child labor
Term
What was a side effect of the US becoming highly industrialized?
Definition
it became highly urbanized
Term
What mayors of cities emphasized the benefits of municipal ownership of public utilities?
Definition
Samuel Jones (Toledo)
Tom Johnson (Cleveland)
Term
What was the term journalists were called who documented the social costs of urbanization and industrialization?
Definition
muckrakers
Term
Who wrote "The Jungle"?
Definition
Upton Sinclair
Term
Who wrote "An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution" that shared the progressive concern with unmasking the real forces in history?
Definition
Charles Beard
Term
How many immigrants came to the US 25 years before WW1?
Definition
18 million
Term
Why did most progressives want to restrict immigration?
Definition
reasons of reform
Term
Who tried but failed at a settlement house for blacks?
Definition
Mary White Ovington
Term
During the progressive era who lost the right to vote? and enacted poll taxes?
Definition
southern blacks and southern states
Term
Who spoke for blacks who wanted to reject the idea of racial accommodation?
Definition
W.E.B. DuBois
Term
who founded the NAACP in 1910
Definition
DuBois
Term
Who faced Roosevelt in the Republican Party and Congress and warned the new president to "go slow"
Definition
Mark Hanna
Term
What were 4 important areas of Roosevelt's administration?
Definition
business
labor
reform legislation
and conservation
Term
What three pieces of legislation were a part of the square deal?
Definition
The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1905
The Meat Inspection Act of 1906
The Hepburn Act of 1906
Term
Who created the Forest Service in the Dept of Agriculture? Who was the chief?
Definition
Roosevelt created, named Gifford Pinchot chief
Term
Who was sort of a "behind the scenes" president for William Howard Taft?
Definition
Theodore Roosevelt
Term
What 2 constitutional amendments were ratified in 1913?
Definition
16th 17th
Term
what three issues alienated progressives from taft?
Definition
legislative reform
trade
conservation
Term
who created the natl progressive republican league in 1911?
Definition
Robert La Follette and Hiram Johnson
Term
Because of Republican disunity, who claimed the white house for the democrats?
Definition
woodrow wilson
Term
what was wilson's slogan?
Definition
"new freedom"
Term
Who did Wilson nominate to Supreme Court in 1916?
Definition
Louis D. Brandeis
Term
What passenger ship did a German submarine ship sink in May 1915?
Definition
Lusitania
Term
What role did Wilson play in the European war in 1915-1916?
Definition
he was a mediator
Term
Which country did Germany contact to ask for an alliance in the Zimmerman Telegram?
Definition
Mexico
Term
Name two things that Wilson believed were necessary for Democratic political systems?
Definition
open markets and capitalism
Term
Who did the US banks provide 2.5 billion in loans and 300 million in loans between 1914 and 1917?
Definition
The allies and central powers
Term
Where did the US intervene in 1916 by sending 6000 troops under the command of General Pershing?
Definition
Mexico
Term
What did contemporary critics label the new forms of art produced by artists like John Sloan and George Luks?
Definition
Ashcan School
Term
Who assumed personal control of American foreign policy after McKinley was assassinated?
Definition
Roosevelt
Term
How did Roosevelt display American strength in early 1905?
Definition
by sending warships to Santo Domingo
Term
How did Roosevelt's attempt at a partnership with the Japanese end badly?
Definition
American exporters were driven out of Manchuria (Standard Oil, Swift meatpacking and British American Tobacco)
Term
What conflict ignited the Russian Revolution in 1905
Definition
The Russo-Japanese War
Term
How did Taft want to show his power?
Definition
Through money not armies
Term
created new powers that American bankers and industrialists could use in competing for credit and money in foreign money markets
Definition
federal reserve banking act of 1913
Term
allowed exporters to organize associations for the development of overseas trade
Definition
the webb pomerene act of 1918
Term
what was the key to restoring vitality and competition at home?
Definition
exporting good political ideals and morality abroad
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