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Learning Goal: I will understand how Americans benefited from progressive reforms.

Chapter 21 - The Progressive Era Vocabulary

|Section 1 (Pages 672-677) |Section 2 (679-681) |

|Progressivism – reform movements that sought to raise living standards and | |

|correct wrongs in American society. |William Howard Taft – Republican elected president in 1908 |

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|Muckraker – writer who exposed corruption in American society. |Sixteenth Amendment – amendment that gave Congress the power to create income |

| |taxes |

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|Patronage – exchanging government jobs and contracts for political support. | |

| |Seventeenth Amendment – amendment that provided for the direct election of |

| |U.S. senators |

|Sherman Antitrust Act – law that made it illegal for corporations to gain | |

|control of industries by forming trusts. | |

| |Bull Moose Party – progressive political party in 1912 presidential election |

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|Theodore Roosevelt – president who led progressive reforms | |

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| |Clayton Antitrust Act – legislation that strengthened the Sherman Antitrust |

|Direct Primary – election in which voters, not party conventions, choose |Act’s power |

|candidates to run for public office. | |

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| |Federal Reserve Act – law that created the modern banking system. Gave the |

|Conservation – controlling resource usage. |government more control over the nation’s money supply |

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| |Revenue – income |

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1. Explain the three societal goals of the Progressive reforms.

Progressivism is the reform (change) movements that sought to raise standards of living and correct wrongs in American society. Reformer looked at 3 areas:

a.Promoting social reform: changes that would help

the people directly; poor, unemployed, immigrants,

& workers.

b.Expanding Democracy: getting qualified workers

for government jobs, and getting voters or more

voters directly involved in the government.

c. Creating Economic Reform: limit the power of big

business. Also, changes in the way government

handles the nation’s money.

2. Describe the role of the muckrakers with the reform movement and give one example.

A muckraker was a journalist who uncovered and reported about government corruption and bad working and living conditions.

Jacob Riis: Wrote and photographed the horrible living conditions in the slums of New York City. He wrote the book “ How the Other Half Lives.”

Upton Sinclair: wrote the book “The Jungle.” The book told of the poor working conditions and terrible practices, such as using spoiled meat, and leaving rats in the sausage, in the meat packing industry. After TR read the book, the Meat Inspection Act of 1906 was passed.

In the Grand Canyon, Arizona has a natural wonder which is in kind absolutely unparalleled throughout the rest of the world. I want to ask you to keep this great wonder of nature as it now is. I hope you will not have a building of any kind, not a summer cottage, a hotel or anything else, to mar the wonderful grandeur, the sublimity, the great loneliness and beauty of the canyon. Leave it as it is. You cannot improve on it. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it."

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Progressive Reforms under Roosevelt

Fill in the chart below with the reforms made in each category during his administration from your study of Chapter 21.

|Promote Social Welfare |Expand Democracy |Create Economic Reform |

|Meat Inspection Act – 1906 |Pendleton Civil Service Act of 1883 – need to|Enforced the Sherman Anti- Trust Act of 1890 |

|Pure Food and Drug Act - 1906 |pass a test to get a govt. job. | |

|preserved 194 million acres of public land |Direct Primary – voters chose candidates |Broke up railroad tobacco, plus Standard Oil |

|Grand Canyon |Initiative – voters can directly propose a |trusts |

|Muir Woods |law – 1902 Oregon |Filed suit against 44 trusts total |

|Pelican Island - FL |Referendum – voters can vote on proposed law | |

|Created U.S. Forest Service |– 1902 Oregon | |

|Minimum wage laws |5.Recall – voters can remove an elected | |

|Reduce work hours |official from office – Los Angeles 1902 | |

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Progressive Reforms under Taft

Fill in the chart below with the reforms made in each category during his administration from your study of Chapter 21.

|Promote Social Welfare |Expand Democracy |Create Economic Reform |

| |17th Amendment – provides direct election of |16th Amendment – income tax |

| |U.S. senators |Pursued twice as many anti-trust suits in 4 |

| | |years as Roosevelt did in 8 |

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Progressive Reforms under Wilson

Fill in the chart below with the reforms made in each category during his administration from your study of Chapter 21.

|Promote Social Welfare |Expand Democracy |Create Economic Reform |

|Prohibition to solve the problem of alcohol|19th Amendment – women gain the right to |Clayton Anti-Trust Act of 1914 – further |

|abuse – led to the 18th Amendment |vote |banned monopolies and business practices |

| | |that lessened competition |

| | |Federal Reserve Act – set up modern banking |

| | |system; bankers bank & gave the federal |

| | |govt. more control over the nation’s money |

| | |supply. |

Section 3 (Pages 683-688)

Carry A. Nation – fought for prohibition

Prohibition – legal ban on the production, possession, and sale of alcohol

Eighteenth Amendment – constitutional amendment enacting Prohibition

Susan B. Anthony – fought for woman suffrage

Carrie Chapman Catt – president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association

Nineteenth Amendment – constitutional amendment that gave women the right to vote

Suffrage – right to vote

Use your book or Thinking Maps to answer the following questions about the Women’s Movement.

3. Explain how middle class women’s lives changed during the Progressive Era.

Women’s lives changed greatly during the late 1800s. The causes were smaller families, new products and new inventions. The results were factories now produced soap, clothing, canned food, and other goods that had been homemade. There was also new technology providing indoor running water and vacuum cleaners giving homemakers more time to do other things besides taking care of the home. Women now pursued jobs outside the home such as telephone operators, typists, and store clerks. Those with college educations became teachers and nurses.

4. List and elaborate on the social reforms achieved by women during the Progressive Era.

Women such as Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr were responsible for founding Hull House, a settlement house in Chicago that helped immigrants and the poor become successful contributing citizens.

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Women also played a major role in the passing of Prohibition. Carry A. Nation worked tirelessly to rid society of alcohol after watching her husband become an alcoholic.

Women also worked for suffrage. Groups such as the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) were formed in the late 1800s to work towards giving women a voice in politics. Famous women active in this organization were Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Carrie Chapman Catt. They were all instrumental in the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920 giving women the right to vote.

Women also worked for suffrage. Groups such as the National American Woman Suffrage Explain how women finally obtained the right to vote.

Women had been fighting for the right to vote since before the mid 1800’s. In the 1890’s NAWSA was formed and focused on individual states as opposed going national. By 1914, 11 Western states had approved women’s suffrage.

To pass an amendment, NAWSA told President Wilson they would support him in case of war, and by helping with the war effort the NAWSA could get his support for suffrage. Wilson urged congress to support the amendment. It was passed and ratified by the states in 1920.

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