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HISTORY
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What did the progressives want? | to create various social welfare programes to ensure a basic standard of living |
| What happens in a direct primary | voters cast ballots to select nominees for upcoming elections |
| what was new freedom | Woodrow Wilson promised to enforce antitrust laws without threatening free economic competition. |
| why did business leaders often ask the courts for injunction in 1890 | to prohibit workers from striking |
| what is the City level of government | municipal |
| What is home rule | cities exercising a limited degree of self-government |
| what is civil disobedience | Nonviolent refusal to obey a law in an effort to change |
| What did the Clayton antitrust act do? | Act legalized strikes and peaceful picketing. |
| What is referendum? | Citizens approve or reject a law passed by the legislature |
| What did the 18th Amendment prevent? | manufacturing of and sale of liquor |
| What is recall | voters remove public officials from office |
| What is the 19th Amendment | granted women full suffrage. |
| What is the 16th Amendment | gave Congress the power to levy an income tax. |
| what is the 17th amendment | provided for the direct election of U.S. senators. |
| What is initiative | Citizens propose new laws |
| Who's efforts convinced many states to abolish child labor? | Florence Kelly |
| Who led NAWSA to victory | Carrie Champman Catt |
| Why did some americans resist the progressive reforms? | because they disliked government control over their lives. |
| Who wrote about ideas for reforming society in the late 1800 | Henry George and Edward Bellamy |
| What act did Roosevelt vigorously enforce | sherman antitrust act |
| Why did T.R. show holding his nose and using a rake in this cartoon? | he is a muckraker who is cleaning up and exposing the filthy and corrupt conditions in America’s meatpacking industry. 22. The Progressive Movement focused mainly |
| What did the Progressive Movement focus mainly on | problems of urban residents |
| What was progressivism halted by | WW1 |
| What did reformers want to provide citizens with? | more affordable services by transferring control of urban utilities to the city |
| What was one way reformers hoped to end corruption in government | to give voters more direct say in lawmaking |
| What did President Wilson establish? | Federal Reserve System to reorganize the federal banking system |
| Who favored the Clayton Antitrust act? | labor unions |
| Why did wilson help create the federal reserve system | to prevent bank failures |
| What did progressives agree that the government should do? | that the government should protect workers and help the poor |
| What did the anti-suffrage movement argue? | that if women could vote, they would become too masculine. |
| What did the platform of the Bull Moose Party support? | supported the 12-hour work day |
| Why was Susan B. Anthony arrested in 1872? | because she insisted on voting |
| What did municipal reformers aim to end? | Government corruption |
| Why was the era between 1890 and 1920 called the progressive era? | because reformers worked to increase government regulation of economic activities |
| What did many states do during the progressive era? | they abolished child labor |
| What was Mother Jones best known for? | organizing unions in mines in West Virginia and Colorado. |
| "We demand that big business give the people a square deal: in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.” | Progressive Era president was the most likely author of this quotation was Theodore Roosevelt. |
| What did muckrakers worked at exposing | political and business corruption |
| Why did Theodore Roosevelt decided to intervene during the United Mine Workers’ strike in protest of low wages? | the nation’s key source of heating fuel was at stake. |
| What helped Wilson win the election? | a split in the Republican Party |
| what persuaded states to allow women to vote | Suffragists achieved some early success |
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