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What was the name of the act that made alcohol in the U.S. illegal until it was repealed due to the skyrocketing rates of organized crime it caused?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