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Reform Movements
Reform Unit - Kansas History - WeberAE
Question | Answer |
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What is the definition of contaminated? | Impure, unclean. |
What does foreclosure mean? | The ending of rights of a debtor to personal property. |
Define industrialization: | To become industrial. |
What does it mean to lobby for something? | A group of people would try to influence or convince public officials in favor of a cause. |
Prohibition | The period during which the 18th amendment forbade the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages. |
Populism | A US political movement seeking to represent the interests of farmers and laborers in the 1890s. |
Define regulation: | Controlling or enforcing a set standard or rules. |
Socialism | Social organization in which the means of producing and distributing goods is owned collectively or by a centralized government that plans and controls the economy. |
What is suffrage? | The right or privilege of voting. |
Define temperance | restraint in the use of or abstinence from alcoholic liquors. |
What made farmers angry during the "Gilded Age"? | High prices for shipping crops by RR, high interest rates charged by banks, inequality of wealth between rich & poor. |
What happened as a result of the depression of the 1870s? | Reform movements began. |
Why did Prohibitionists see alcohol as "evil and destructive to society"? | It was a threat to the idea of family, caused some to behave poorly. |
In what ways did Kansas fail to enforce its own prohibition laws? | People could still buy for medicinal purposes, people made/used in their homes, secret saloons. |
What role did Carry Nation play during the prohibition movement? | She brought national attention to the issue of Prohibition. |
Name at least one issue what was of interest to female voters in Kansas: | alcohol or gambling. |
How did Kansas women achieve full suffrage? | Contacted every member of the state legislature, The women were organized and had a plan, Women raised funds for their campaign,Women contacted every woman in the state and encouraged participation in cause,Contacted politicians. |
What were 2 goals of the Populist movement? | Political & economic reform. |
What were 2 goals of the Progressive movement? | Election Reform, government regulation of businesses. |
What regulations were established under the Child Labor Law of 1905? | No one 16 or under may work dangerous jobs. |
Name two public health reform topics Dr. Samuel Crumbine campaigned to change: | Swat the Fly, Ban the Public Drinking Cup |
**Know a problem & solution from one topic of your foldable** | **Know a problem & solution from one topic of your foldable** |
The Progressive Movement was about... | Progress and moving forward. |
Progressivism | Promoting or favoring progress toward better conditions or new policies, ideas or methods. |