Quiz 3
While progressivism has many meanings, it tended in this period to be based on the central assumption that
American society was capable of improvement
In 1920, passage of the Nineteenth Amendment
Gave women the right to vote
In 1904, Ida Tarbell published a highly critical study on
Standard Oil Trust
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the "Social Gospel" was
an effort to make religious faith a tool of social reform
The so-called Zimmerman telegram
included a proposal for the return of the American Southwest to Mexico.
The term "muckrakers" referred to
journalists
The Sabotage Act and the Sedition Act of 1918
made illegal any public expression opposing the war
Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel, The Jungle, encouraged the federal government to regulate the
meatpacking industry
During the progressive Era, one of the first targets for political reformers was
municipal governments
In the aftermath of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire in New York City,
strict regulations with effective enforcement were imposed on factory owners
During World War 1, the War industries Board (WIB)
coordinated government purchases of military supplies
During the Progressive Era, supporters of woman suffrage argued that female voters
deserved the vote because of their unique traits as women
During the progressive Era, the socialist Party of America
grew stronger
President Woodrow Wilson's request to Congress for declaration of War
took place two weeks after German submarines had torpedoed three Americans ships.
In the United State during World war 1, the committee of Public Information (CPI)
Became increasingly sensationalist in its information campaign
World War 1 hurt the socialist movement in the United States
because the war generated anti-radical feelings in the country.