CHAPTER 17 STUDY GUIDE

Mrs. Johnson American Studies IIC

THE  PROGRESSIVE  ERA

ISSUES TO UNDERSTAND

    Answer the following in your notebooks:

Section One

    1.   Who were the Progressives?

    2.  What  were the four goals of Progressivism?

    3.  Who was Florence Kelley and why was she important?

    4.   Why did some people think that improving morality would help the poor?

    5.   What did Carry Nation do in an effort to stop people from drinking?

    6.   Explain  what the Woman's Christian Temperance Union did.

    7.   Why did Henry George and Edward Bellamy criticize capitalist competition?

     8.   Define socialism.

     9.   What were some of Eugene Debs' belief?

    10.  How did muckrakers change American society?

   11.  How did Taylor popularize scientific management?

    12.  How did Progressive mayors reform local government? Give examples of what they did.

     13.  Define initiative, referendum and recall. 

     14.   What was the Austraian ballot?

     15.  What is the Seventeenth Amendment and why is it important?

Section Two 

     16.   Discuss Susette La Flesche's story.

     17.   In what ways were women entering the work force in the late 1800s?

     18.   Discuss the types of jobs and opportunities that existed for women.  

      19.   How could women work for change and reform in America  before they could vote?

      20.   What was the NACW and what did it do?

      21.    What was the significance of Susan B. Anthony's work?

      22.    What was the 3 part strategy for suffrage?

      23.    What achievements were made by women  during Theodore Roosevelt's presidency?

  Section Three

      24.   What was Upton Sinclair's book, The Jungle, about and how did it cuase change in America?

      25.   Describe what Teddy Roosevelt was like.

      26.   Explain how President Roosevelt differed from any President before him.

      27.    How did TR handle the coal strike of 1902?

      28.    What was a trust?

      29.    How did Roosevelt determine what was a good or a bad trust?

      30.    How did Roosevelt improve the regulation of railroad transportation?

      31.   Identify the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act.

      32.  What did TR do for conservation of natural resources?

      33.   In what ways did Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois differ on the treatment of blacks in America?

      34. Where did TR stand on Civil Rights?

 

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