THE PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT

Chapter 10 Test review

Terms to know

muckrakersSocially conscious writers who dramatized the need for reform; revealed the “poop” of societysettlement housecommunity center that provided social services to the urban poor; Square DealTheodore Roosevelt’s plan to keep the wealthy from taking advantage of the poor; he wanted fair governmentFederal Reserve ActA law that placed federal banks under the control of the Federal Reserve BoardNaturalist NovelA novel that honestly portrays human misery and struggles of common people

Terms to know

Clayton Antitrust ActStrengthened the Sherman Antitrust Act by spelling out specific things businesses couldn’t doWCTU Women’s Christian Temperance Movement; group of women who worked to end sales, distribution, production of alcoholNAWSA National American Woman Suffrage Association; worked for women’s suffrage by lobbying Congress and using the referendum process to change lawsNAACPA group which helps obtain political and social justice for African Americans; used the courts to challenge unfair laws

Terms to know

Urban LeagueAid poor African Americans in obtaining education, housing, clothes and foodFederal Trade Commission (FTC)monitors business practices that could lead to a monopoly such as false advertising, and dishonest labelingNCL National Consumers League

Labeled “goods produced under fair, safe and healthy working conditions” and urged women to buy themThe JungleBook written by Upton Sinclair; about Chicago stockyards and meat packing factories and the immigrants who worked at them

People to know

Woodrow WilsonProgressive president who worked to make business practices fair in the US; he attacked the “triple wall of privilege” (banks, trusts, tariffs)Margaret Sangeropened the country’s first birth control clinicW.E.B. DuboisLeader who urged African Americans to demand their rights; opposed Booker T. WashingtonWalter Rauschenbuschformed the Social Gospel; wrote Christianity and the Social Gospel

People to know

Gifford PinchotLed the Division of Forestry under President Theodore RooseveltBooker T. WashingtonTold African Americans to move slowly toward progressJane Addamsopened Hull House (a settlement house) in 1889;

Concepts

In the 1902 coal miners’ strike, how did Roosevelt respond?Threatened to send federal troops and have the federal government take over the minesWhich president(s) wanted to place strict government control on corporations?Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow WilsonWhat did Progressives think was causing the social and political problems of the time?urbanization and industrialization

Concepts

Why were hundreds of members of the National Women’s Party arrested? (Alice Paul)Picketed and protested outside of the White HouseWhat ethnic group did the Anti-Defamation League work for?JewishWhat caused the Republican Party to split during the election of 1912?A battle between Teddy Roosevelt and William Taft

Concepts

Under which act placed national banks under the control of the Federal Reserve Board?Federal Reserve Act

What types of customs did the Progressives want new immigrants to follow which was the reason they promoted Americanization efforts?White, middle-class, Protestant ways of lifeWhat group of people was most affected by the Dawes Act? (section 3)