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The Progressive Movement

The Progressive Movement. What was the name of the 20 th century social and political reform movement, which occurred on every level of government in the United States?. The Progressive Movement. What were three causes of the Progressive Movement?. 1) Excesses of Gilded Age

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The Progressive Movement

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  1. The Progressive Movement

  2. What was the name of the 20th century social and political reform movement, which occurred on every level of government in the United States? • The Progressive Movement

  3. What were three causes of the Progressive Movement?

  4. 1) Excesses of Gilded Age • 2) Poor working conditions of American labor (workers) • 3) Low standard of living of American labor

  5. What did the Progressives believe should solve the problems created by industrialization? • The Government

  6. What were three main goals of the Progressives?

  7. Government controlled by the people instead of big business and special interests • Economic opportunity for all Americans • Eliminate social injustices

  8. How did the Progressives hope to guarantee all Americans economic opportunity?

  9. Through government regulation of business

  10. What was the Gilded Age? • A period in the late 1800s characterized by great wealth, corruption, and inequality

  11. Who held almost all the great wealth created in America during the Gilded Age? • A small upper class of businessmen and industrialists

  12. Define the term industrialists. • Factory owners

  13. What is another name of the Gilded Age? • The Age of the Robber Barons

  14. Who were the robber barons? • Members of the newly rich upper class who had extravagant lifestyles

  15. What did the extravagant lifestyle of the robber barons point out? • The severe difference in income between the small, super rich upper class and the average American family

  16. Who were the Muckrakers? • Progressive writers who wrote about social and political evils in late 19th and early 20th century America.

  17. Who were the two most famous Progressive presidents? • Theodore Roosevelt • Woodrow Wilson

  18. Which Progressive president was known for offering the American people a “Square Deal”? • Theodore Roosevelt

  19. What Progressive president was known for the New Freedom? • Woodrow Wilson

  20. Did both Republicans and Democrats participate in the Progressive Movement? • Yes

  21. On what levels of government were there Progressive reforms? • Federal • Local • State

  22. What was one Progressive accomplishment on the state level? • Passed child labor laws

  23. Name 5 ways the Progressives tried to make government more democratic at the state level?

  24. Referendum • Initiative • Recall • Secret ballot • Primary elections

  25. By what process may citizens vote to approve or reject a measure passed by a legislative body? • Referendum

  26. What process permits citizens to propose laws to their state or local governments? • Initiative

  27. By what process may citizens vote to remove government officials from office before they have finished their terms? • Recall election

  28. What reform did Progressives use to protect voters’ privacy? • The secret ballot

  29. What does one call an election in which voters nominate a political party’s candidates for office? • Primary election

  30. At what level of government were child labor laws an example of a Progressive reform? • State government

  31. Whattype of reforms were the 17th and 19th Amendment and the Clayton Anti-Trust Act? • Progressive reforms on the federal or national level.

  32. What was the 17th Amendment? • Direct election of United States senators

  33. Who elected U.S. senators before ratification of the 17th Amendment? • The State Legislatures

  34. What did the term “trust” mean during the late 19th and early 20th centuries? • A business monopoly

  35. What does the term monopoly mean? • Absence of competition

  36. What does anti-trust mean? • Anti-monopoly

  37. What did anti-trust laws try to do? • Restore free competition to the American economy

  38. What was the major weakness in the Sherman Anti-Trust Act? • The wording was too vague.

  39. What did the Clayton Anti-Trust Act do? • 1) Outlawed price fixing • 2) Exempted unions from the Sherman Anti-Trust Act

  40. In what two ways did Progressives try to make local governments less corrupt, more efficient, and more responsive to the people?

  41. Commission form of city government • Council/manager form of city government

  42. How does the council/manager form of city government work?

  43. Voters elect a city council • City council hires a professional manager to serve as the city’s administrator

  44. What did Progressives want city government to be? • Efficient • Businesslike

  45. What is another word for the right to vote? • Suffrage

  46. During what war did the women’s suffrage movement first encourage American women to enter the labor force? • World War I

  47. Name a leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement. • Susan B. Anthony

  48. Which constitutional amendment gave women the right to vote? • 19th Amendment

  49. What were three Progressive reforms on the federal or national level of government? • 17th Amendment • 19th Amendment • Clayton Anti-Trust Act

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