History: The Progressive Movement

Teddy Roosevelt

26th president. "Trust Buster": Passed legislation that tried to stop the economic exploitation of the public by the wealthy elite & "Trust Titans". Conservationist: Increased public interest in environmental conservation and played a leading role in creating many national parks. Imperialist: Used military force to take over and exploit many territories in Latin America and the South Pacific

Robber-barons

Businessmen who take advantage of competitors, poor laborers, and consumers also known as ???.

Cast A Ballot

What did Susan B. Anthony do that defied the law in November of 1872?

Bankers

What group of people would most likely support laissez-faire economic policy?

Overcrowding, Unsanitary Living Conditions, Risk Of Fire

What housing problems did urban working class families face in the late 19th and early 20th centuries?

Pro-choice Movement

What movement was Susan Brownmiller a leader in during the 1960's and 70's?

Muckrakers

What term is used to describe journalists like Jacob Riis, Lewis Hine, and Mark Twain who tried to expose or dig up dirt about injustices in American society?

Knowingly Voting Without Having The Right To Vote

What was Susan B. Anthony charged with?

Safe Medical Procedures

What was Susan Brownmiller fighting for?

Prohibition

What was the name of the act that made alcohol in the U.S. illegal until it was repealed due to the skyrocketing rates of organized crime it caused?

The Passage Of A Constitutional Amendment That Granted Women The Right To Vote

What was the result of the Women's Suffrage Movement during the Progressive Era?

Poverty And Crime In Urban Areas, Political Corruption, Wealth Inequality, Workers' Rights Violations

What were the big problems in U.S. society during this time period that sparked the Progressive Movement?

Upper And Middle

Which social class(es) did most leaders of the Progressive movement come from?

Many Progressive Organizations And Reform Groups Were Led By Women

Why are the social classes' leaders of the Progressive Movement come from the case?

Something Women Can Take In

Why did the prohibition movement appeal to so many women?

Life, Liberty, And The Pursuit Of Happiness She Is A Taxpayer

Why does Susan B. Anthony argue that the court's decision is an "unjust penalty" that she will not abide by?

Women Were Dying

Why was Susan Brownmiller fighting?

Scientific Management

"Taylorism" became a management fad, as industry reformers applied these ??? studies to see how quickly each task could be performed

Florence Kelley

??? became an advocate for improving the lives of women and children. She was appointed chief inspector of factories for Illinois after she had helped to win passage of the Illinois Factory Act in 1893. The act, which prohibited child labor and limited women's working hours, soon became a model for other states. The daughter of an antislavery Republican congressman from Pennsylvania, ??? became a social reformer whose sympathies lay with the power-less, especially working women and children. During a long career, ??? pushed the government to solve America's social problems. In 1899, ??? became general secretary of the National Consumers' League, where she lobbied to improve factory conditions. "Why," ??? pointedly asked while campaigning for a federal child-labor law, "are seals, bears, reindeer, fish, wild game in the national parks, buffalo, [and] migratory birds all found suitable for federal protection, but not children?"

Laissez-faire Policies

A defining feature of Capitalism argues that the government should not regulate or interfere with the private business sector of the economy

Right-to-work Law

A state statute that prohibits a union shop. More than 25 states, many of them in the South, have such laws. Since labor unions' strength derives from the solidarity of all employees, these laws tend to weaken or destroy unions.

Arbitration

A way for workers and managers to settle grievances by submitting them to a third party with the power to render a compromise solution.

General Strike

A work stoppage that involved all union members in a city or region, not just those in a particular industry.

Union Shop

A workplace in which all employees must join a designated union within a specific time after being hired. Some see this as an infringement on an individual employee's freedom. Unions feel that it is unfair that a worker should benefit from union efforts without being a member.

Initiative

A(n) ??? is a bill created by the people.

Labor Union

An organized association of workers, often in a trade or profession, formed to protect and further their rights and interests

Environmental Impacts Of The Gold Rush

As gold became harder to find and more difficult to extract, individual prospectors gave way to paid work gangs, specialized skills, and mining machinery. Bigger mines, however, caused greater environmental damage. In the mountains, shaft mining predominated, producing large amounts of waste. Beginning in 1852, at the end of the '49 gold rush, through 1883, hydraulic mining was used. Despite huge profits being made, it fell into the hands of a few capitalists, displaced numerous miners, vast amounts of waste entered river systems, and did heavy ecological damage to the environment.

Mother Jones

Beginning in the 1870s, this person traveled to support hundreds of labor strikes across the country. They famously declared "I'm not a humanitarian; I'm a hell-raiser."

Preservationists

Believe in saving the environment so that people could enjoy nature into the future. Do not want the environment in protected areas to be used for anything except enjoyment. EXAMPLE: John Muir

Alice Paul

Co-founder of the National Women's Party which used tactics like picketing, petitioning, pageants, parades and demonstrations, hunger strikes and imprisonment to fight for Women's Suffrage.

Settlement Houses

Community centers, like the Jane Adams Hull House, that helped and educated the poor in slum neighborhoods

Fringe Benefits

Compensation other than cash, such as health insurance or a pension plan. Became an important part of labor contracts after World War II.

Monopoly

Complete control over an industry's production, wages, and prices. One way to create a ??? was to set up a holding company, a corporation that did noting but buy out the stock of other companies.

Progressive Movement

Early 20th century reform movement seeking to return control of the government to the people, to restore economic opportunities, and to correct injustices in American life

Permanent Replacement Workers

Employees hired to take the jobs of those who have gone out on strike. A more polite term for what the labor movement always called scabs.

Harriet Hanson Robinson

Helped organized the first labor strikes

Sojourner Truth

In one of her most famous speeches entitled Ain't I A Woman?, this person uses herself as an example that proves women deserve the same rights as men do

Workers' Compensation

Insurance programs enacted by all states that provide for workers hurt on the job and prohibit workers from suing their employers over injuries.

Tenements

Large housing structures in poor slum neighborhoods that were prone to overcrowding, poor sanitation, and other health hazards.

Conservationists

Mainly interested in the economic benefits of protecting the environment. Believe it is OK to use the country's natural resources for human production. Want to insure the nation's natural resources would be replenished and not get depleted. EXAMPLE: Teddy Roosevelt

Four Goals Of Progressivism

Protecting social welfare Promoting moral improvement Creating economic reform Fostering efficiency

Why Does Sojourner Truth Argue That Women Deserve The Same Rights As Men In Her Speech?

She can perform as good as any man She borne 13 children She can bare the lash Not to Use religion to justify

Genora Dollinger

Stopped police from attacking the protesters by calling to the women

Conservationism

Teddy Roosevelt did not object to using the country's natural resources for human production. He did want to protect the environment to insure resources would be replenished and not get depleted. What term best describes Roosevelt's view of the environment?

Recall

The ??? enabled voters to remove public officials from elected positions by forcing them to face another election before the end of their term if enough voters asked for it.

19th Amendment

The ??? guarantees that "the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex."

Referendum

The ??? involves citizens voting to decide whether or not a bill created by the people will be accepted or rejected.

17th Amendment

The ??? played an important role in combating patronage, graft, and other forms of political corruption, by requiring the direct election of U.S. Senators by popular vote.

Seneca Falls Convention

The ??? was organized in 1848 by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton was the first ever women's rights convention held in the U.S. and considered the beginning of the women's rights movement.

Thomas Nast

This person used political cartoons to help expose political corruption and graft. This person's muckraking helped remove corrupt politicians like Boss Tweed from office and helped gain support for the passage of the 17th amendment.

Jane Addams

The founder of the Hull House and co-winner of the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize.

Collective Bargaining

The process by which workers, organized together in a union, negotiate a contract with their employer. This right is considered to be the bedrock principle of the labor movement and is the most common way for employers and workers to settle their differences.

Suffrage

The right to vote

Ida B Wells

This activist protested the exclusion of African Americans from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago and three years later helped launch the National Association of Colored Women (NACW).

Ida Tarbell

This person exposed the corruption and oppression involved with John D Rockefeller's Standard Oil trust. This person wrote "The History of the Standard Oil Company" which would be hailed as a landmark in the history of investigative journalism.

Jacob Riis

This person fought against poverty, oppressors of the poor, and Social Darwinism with their book of photographs entitled "How the Other Half Lives"

Mark Twain

This person publicly condemned the Spanish-American War as an unjust act of American imperialism and colonization. One of their most powerful pieces against the brutality of imperialist war is The War Prayer which would be reprinted roughly half of a century later by activists against the Vietnam War. This person wrote a series of articles protesting discrimination against Chinese immigrants and exposing police brutality in San Francisco.

Lewis Hine

This person risked his own safety and well-being by sneaking into factories and taking pictures of horrific and dangerous conditions many young children were forced to work in to show the public.

Upton Sinclair

This person's muckraking caused Congress to pass the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906 to protect consumers from unsafe and adulterated foods

John Muir

This preservationist's nature writings convinced U.S. presidents to preserve our nation's most incredible landscapes and create National Parks. Fruit Rancher, Inventor, Botanist, Glaciologist, Family Man, Writer, and Father of the National Park Service! A Scottish-born American and preservationist. Nature writings convinced U.S. president Teddy Roosevelt to preserve our nation's most incredible landscapes and create National Parks.

Assembly Line

This system of production, created during American industrialization, allowed American businesses to make products much faster and cheaper

Robert M. La Follette

Under the progressive Republican leadership of ???, Wisconsin lead the way in regulating big business