the progressive movement
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