Progressive Era Quest-Review

President Roosevelt's attitude towards monopolies

He disliked them

Factory workers in the 1900s

Little pay, long hours, dangerous machines and conditions, unsafe fire hazards

Children in the 1900's and school

Many children did not attend school but instead worked in factories for their familys

What are two issues Theodore Roosevelt focused on during this presidency?

Protections for workers and strong foreign policy. Roosevelt's domestic program was known as the "Square Deal," which promised protections for consumers, workers, and the environment. Abroad, Roosevelt sought to increase American prominence.

Presidents Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson policy towards the enviroment

Roosevelt's: US forest service Taft's: Added 2.7 million arcres to the national wilelife refuge system Wilson's: National Park Service

Reasons for the Affrican American migrate to urban cities in the late 1800

Segregation and racism acts from the south sometimes later effected by the KKK

Women's sufrage

The women's right to vote

Arrival of industry spur rapid urbanization in america..... Why

caused man immigrants and rural residents to move to the cities mass numbers begun to take shelter in the cities

Upton Sinclair, a journalist who exposed the poor conditions and corruption of Chicago's meatpacking industry in his novel The Jungle, is an example of a

muckraker. Muckrakers were journalists and novelists of the Progressive Era who sought to expose corruption in big business and government.

The Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act, which gave the federal government regulatory power over food and drugs, were enacted largely as a result of

public outcry following Upton Sinclair's exposé novel, The Jungle, which highlighted food contamination issues. Ironically, Sinclair wrote the book to raise public awareness about the foul working conditions in the meatpacking industry, but readers were drawn to the novel's description of food contamination.

The main motive behind "yellow journalism" was to

sell newspapers by telling sensationalist stories. Yellow journalists told true and untrue stories that would whip the public into a frenzy, starting mainly during the Spanish American War.

What was one appeal of the city life

theater shows, good restrants, statue of liberty

Muckrackers

A journalist who wrote about social, political, or environmental problems happening in america in the early 1900's

Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle"

A novel written to portray the harsh working condition in the meat packing industry he described the conditions as diseased rotten and contaminated.

Temperance movement

A reform movement calling for moderation if drinking alchohol

What was the Pendleton Act

An 1883 federal that limited patronage by creating a civil commission to administer exams for nonmilitary government jobs

Direct primary

An election in which voters chose candidates to run on a party's ticket in a subsequent election for public office.

Political machines

An organization consisting of full time politicians whose main goal was to retrain political power and money and influence that went with it

Cities in the 1900's sanitation environment make-up of neighborhood , appeal, immigrant.

Industrialization and urbanization accrued great, much environmental damage to air and water pollution, much political corruption, big growing gap between the rich and poor.

Federal Reserve System

The Central banking authority of the US, manages nations money supply

Jacob Riis, a muckraker photographer, produced a photo essay called How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York, which led to

greater visibility of living conditions of the poor and led to housing reforms addressing space, cleanliness, and safety. The New York Tenement House Act of 1901 required tenement housing to be cleaner, safer, and more spacious.