the progressive movement

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Which of the following events inspired new city and state laws regulating working conditions in factories?

The Triangle Shirtwaist fire of 1911

city manager plan (more effective)

a professional administrator ran the government based on the recommendations and guidelines of elected city councils and mayors

One of the most important features that characterized progressivism was ____

a rejection of laissez-faire econom-ic policy

Which of the following best describes the Social Gospel?

a religious movement emphasizing the Church's responsibility to help the poor and marginalized

major goals of the progressive movement

democratizing government more (the initiative and referendum and the recall) greater political participation among americans improve factory efficiency trust busting

The __________ ______________, a settlement house in Chicago founded by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr, was one of the most famous of many such institutions, which were devoted to improving living conditions in major cities.

hull house

what did Progressives believe about the government

it had a duty to regulate the market and ensure just and humane business practices

why did the progressive era happen when it did and not sooner

it took time for people to view the US not as loosely connected nations, but as a unified country

Though the People's Party dissolved in the late 1890s, their political philosophies still held influence. Which of the following became the most influential Populist goal in the progressive era?

limiting corruption in government

Which of the following groups were the greatest advocates for the prohibition of alcohol in the United States?

middle-class women

Investigative journalists who exposed corruption and ill treatment of the working poor were known by which of the following terms?

muckrackers

were the Progressives unified

no

1920s

prohibition era

In 1911, Frederick W. Taylor published The Principles of _________________ Management, which suggested ways to bring greater efficiency to the specific tasks of individual workers in factories.

scientific

One of the most extreme democratic reforms in the Progressive Era was the popular election of U.S. _______________, which was established by a constitutional amendment ratified in 1913.

senators

The best practical example of the social gospel at work was the establishment of

settlement houses, community centers where the working poor could receive food, temporary shelter, and a rudimentary education

Middle and upper class Americans in the 1890s became concerned with the rising influence of _____________, a political philosophy that advocated for government ownership of many businesses and greater social justice for the working class.

socialism

a want for greater efficiency in government lead to

the commission system and the city manager plan

Which of the following terms refer to the period between 1897 and 1903, when many big businesses came together either formerly or informally?

the first great merger wave

in the Progressive era, rather than looking to local and state government to solve problems, Americans increasingly began to rely on who to enact change

the government

One of the most important reforms to come out of the social jus-tice movement was

the prohibitino of child labor

trust busting

the regulation of big businesses

most lasting impact of the period

the shift from how americans percieved the federal government

when was the progressive era

the turn of the century to the 1920s

greatet advocate of the social gospel

washington gladden

The largest women's group at the beginning of the twentieth century was

women's christian temperance union

The most dramatic democratic reform of the Progressive Era was

women's suffrage

the commission system

y ultimate authority was placed on elected heads of city departments such as sanitation, police, etc.

motivations for reform

years of suffering following the panic of 1893


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