Progressive

The battle for women's suffrage ended with the ratification of the

19th amendment

What was the 17th amendment?

Allowed the citizens to elect the senators

As a measure to prevent bank failures, President Wilson helped create the

Federal Reserve System

The Clayton Antitrust Act was especially favored by

labor unions.

On the killing-floor you might easily freeze, if the gang for any reason had to stop for a time. You were apt to be covered with blood, and it would freeze solid; if you leaned against a pillar you would freeze to that . . . —Upton Sinclair, The Jungle

meatpacking industry.

Journalists known as muckrakers worked at

Exposing political and business corruption

What was one of the complaints about the business world?

Food and other consumables are unsanitary and have inaccurate labels.

Progressive leaders pushed for these laws to guarantee the safe packaging and sale of food after the rapid rise of cities caused dirty, unsafe practices in the young grocery industry:

Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act

What was one of the complaints about the business world?

Striking laborers are not protected from legal action

How did muckrakers prepare the way for political reforms?

They exposed corruption by writing about it.

The new Labor Department supported legislation that would benefit

Women and children

What was one of the complaints about the business world?

Workers are underpaid and unsafe at work

When President Wilson succeeded in reducing tariffs, the government made up the shortfall by a graduated

income tax.

Which of the following progressive ideas involves gathering support of people through petition in order to get an issue to the public for a vote?

initiative

The 18th Amendment outlawed the sale and distribution of alcohol in the U.S., which came to be known as

prohibition

The Women's Christian Temperance Union supported what progressive idea?

prohibition

Most progressives agreed that the government should

protect workers and help those that could not provide for themselves

Which of the following progressive reforms allowed for the people to remove a corrupt elected official?

recall

Which progressive reform allowed for an issue of spending tax-payer dollars to be put to a vote of the local community for a decision of yes or no?

referendum

President Wilson established the Federal Reserve system to

reorganize the federal banking system.

What political reform was enacted through the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment?

the direct election of senators

This cartoon illustrates President Roosevelt's national reputation as a

trust buster.

"All day long the gates of the packing houses were besieged by starving and penniless men; they came, literally, by the thousands every single morning, fighting with each other for a chance for life. Blizzards and cold made no difference to them, they were always on hand... Sometimes their faces froze, sometimes their feet and hands; sometimes they froze all together—but still they came, for they had no other place to go...." What problem are the men facing?

unemployment

Reformers called for prohibition because they believed that alcohol

was responsible for crime, poverty, and violence against women.

The organization NAWSA supported and promoted what progressive ideal?

women's suffrage

What groups' needs did Theodore Roosevelt feel should be balanced in the "Square Deal"?

workers, business, and consumers