The Progressive Era 1890-1920

Question 1

How did the automobile impact life in the U.S.?

Accepted Answer

The development of paved roads with the Federal Aid Road Act of 1960, created new jobs and businesses- gas station attendant, restaurants, motels, focusing on Convenience- fast food drive-throughs of 1947, Courtship practices and mobility

Question 2

What things were part of the Anti-Prostitution movement?

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Congress said that is was not a victimless crime, in 1910, congress passed the Mann Act- banned human sex trafficting, by 1915, states banned brothels

Question 3

Pure Food and Drug Act- prohibited polluted or adulterated food or drinks in the U.S

Accepted Answer

Pure Food and Drug Act

Question 4

Efficient- to maximize productivity and minimize waste

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True

Question 5

Muckrakers- Progressive Journalists that exposed political, economic, and social hardships in the urbanized U.S.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 6

Eugenics- the science of improving a human population by controlled breeding

Accepted Answer

True

Question 7

how were women able to gain justice during the Progressive Era?

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The women&#x27;s sufferage movement, the anti-prostitution, Birth control

Question 8

How did WWI affect the movement?

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The women were working in the industries to supply the men in the war, they knew that if they didn&#x27;t push for their rights, it would be taken away

Question 9

What were the changing views of children? How did the Progressive movement helped to protect kids?

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minimum work age laws- 14 and younger couldn&#x27;t work dangerous jobs, compulsory education laws- kids have to go to school, The kindergarten movement- young children want to school

Question 10

required a federal meat inspector to inspect meat before it could be sold

Accepted Answer

Meat Inspection Act

Question 11

investigated and criticized corruption and greed in the oil companies of Rockefeller

Accepted Answer

Ida Tarbell

Question 12

NAWSA- National American Women Suffage Association. first major suffage group

Accepted Answer

True

Question 13

Margret Sanger?

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was arrested 8 times, founder of the American Birth Control, opened the first birth control clinic in 1916, and talked to the KKK women group. intrested in controlling immigrant birts

Question 14

what were two problems for the working class?

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turnovers- someone is hired, quits a week later and have to replace them, violence- many died in labor strikes, beaten, threatened, etc.

Question 15

Who was against the sufferage movement? Or the right for women to vote?

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Men- all about power, The Catholic Church

Question 16

What was the effect of the 5 Dollar Day?

Accepted Answer

created new customers. his workers could afford the cars, people showed up to work to get the move, labor unions at Ford shrunk, lots of people coming to be hired after he announced the plan

Question 17

Welfare Capitalism- characterized by a concern for the welfare of its workers. Ex- increased rages, benefits

Accepted Answer

True

Question 18

W.C.T.U.- The Women&#x27;s Christian Temperance Union of 1874- wanted to stop alcohol because it destroyed families

Accepted Answer

True

Question 19

The NAACP was the best example of how the Progressive movement helped African Americans

Accepted Answer

True

Question 20

Francis Willard- founder of the WCTU and its second president. Also part of the Women&#x27;s sufferage movement

Accepted Answer

True

Question 21

Wrote &#x27;The Jungle" based on the stories of people in the meat packing companies

Accepted Answer

Upton Sinclair

Question 22

How did President Woodrow Wilson respond to the movement?

Accepted Answer

He thought the movement was less important than his other problem, the efforts of women working during the war changed his oppinion

Question 23

investigated and criticized child labor in "The Bitter cry of the Children". Also used pictures

Accepted Answer

John Spargo

Question 24

in 1920, The 19 Amendment was passed- allowed women to vote

Accepted Answer

True

Question 25

What was the effects of the Social Gospel?

Accepted Answer

the Y.M.C.A., influenced the black and women&#x27;s suffrage movement, Prohibition, the salvation army

Question 26

Events leading to Prohibition?

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mid 1800s, the development of cheap spirits caused increased alcoholism, increased supply of grain, prices went down, more liquor was sold, Americans drank a lot and created taverns and later saloons

Question 27

What are the effects of the 18th Amendment?

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organized crime grew. Crime bosses like Al Capone, NASCAR- National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, St. Valentie&#x27;s Day Massacure- first drive by shooting 1929 Chicago, people developed a disrespect for the law.

Question 28

NCAA- created by Teddy Roosevelt to regulate college sports and protect athletes.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 29

What was the ideas about children after moving into the cities?

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parents needed to spend more time and money on each kid, housing was expensive. paid by the squared foot of the house, didn&#x27;t need so many kids for working

Question 30

Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890- banned monopolies, cartels, or anything that eliminated too much competition in business

Accepted Answer

True

Question 31

Name some famous Muckrakers

Accepted Answer

Upton Sinclair, Jacob Riis, John Spargo, Ida Tarbell

Question 32

In what ways did the NAACP fight?

Accepted Answer

litigation or using the legal system. NAACP had large legal system, voting

Question 33

What groups of Americans were addicted to drugs?

Accepted Answer

Chinese immigrants, Civil War veterans, Upper and upper middle class women

Question 34

Henry Ford?

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Created the Moving Assembly Line to build cars faster and effeciently, Only made luxury race cars at first for the rich, created the Ford Motor Company in 1905 and created the Model T

Question 35

In what ways was the NAWSA divided?

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a large difference between the older and younger women, the young women were willing to be radical to get their rights, mostly upper and middle class women, not working class women, racial between white and black women

Question 36

What was the Scientific Labor Management? What did it suggest?

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was a book written by Fredrick Taylor in 1911, Standardize and break factory operations into very simple tasks, managers or supervisors should train all new employees

Question 37

in 1920 congress ratified the 18 Amendment- which prohibits the manufacturing, selling, and transporting of liquor

Accepted Answer

True

Question 38

Explain the women&#x27;s suffrage group in Enland

Accepted Answer

They were radical and violent, They were burn down property owned by people in power, men, Emily Davidson became a martyr after being trampled at the Durby race 1913

Question 39

Alice Paul- split from NAWSA and helped formed the National Women&#x27;s Party in 1914. Almost was a martyr after starving

Accepted Answer

True

Question 40

The Welfare State- the people rely on the gov&#x27;t for help and fix problems

Accepted Answer

True

Question 41

What amendment repelled the 18th Amendment? Why?

Accepted Answer

the 21st Amendment, The Great Depression

Question 42

Harrison Narcotics Tax Act of 1914 taxed and regulated the sale of opium and cocaine and required a doctors prescription

Accepted Answer

True

Question 43

Social Gospel- religious reform movement, says that God required social and spiritual efforts to improve indust through?

Accepted Answer

Justice, Charity, promoted by Charles Monroe Sheldon and Walter Rauschenbusch

Question 44

What was the Progressive Movement? description

Accepted Answer

Americans tried to fix the problems caused by Industri and urbanization, looked to the gov&#x27;t to fix problems, Used Compassion and Science to fix the problems

Question 45

The Five Dollar Day?

Accepted Answer

cuts work hours from 9 to 8, doubled the wages of worker on the assembly line to $5, created a personnel department

Question 46

first photo Journalist who wrote "How the Other Half lives" about poor working class in urban areas

Accepted Answer

Jacob Riis

The Progressive Era 1890-1920

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