Progressivism

Question 1

Muckraker

Answer 1

Journalist who exposed corruption

Question 2

Direct Primary

Answer 2

Election in which voters select nominees

Question 3

Initiative

Answer 3

Bill proposed by people, not lawmakers, put onto ballots

Question 4

Referendum

Answer 4

Voters, not legislature, decide if initiative becomes law

Question 5

Recall

Answer 5

Voters remove elected official through early election

Question 6

Henry Ford

Answer 6

Ford company
Champion of efficient manufacturing
Perfected the assembly line

Question 7

Scientific Management

Answer 7

Time and motion studies done to make workplace more efficient

Question 8

17th Amendment

Answer 8

Allowed for the direct election of senators by that states’ voters

Question 9

Goals of progressives

Answer 9

1. Social Welfare
2. Moral Improvement
3. Economic Reform
4. Efficiency

Question 10

Impact of progressive reform on the government

Answer 10

1. 17th amendment
2. Abolition of child labor
3. Initiative, referendum, recall
4. Direct elections through primaries oust political machines

Question 11

How did progressives tackle social problems?

Answer 11

1. Settlement houses
2. Prohibition
3. Muckraking
4. Providing public welfare service

Question 12

WEB Du Bois

Answer 12

1. First African-American to get Harvard doctorate
2. Encouraged liberal arts schools
3. To put Blacks into leadership positions

Question 13

Niagara Movement

Answer 13

Encouraged by Dubois to promote liberal arts study

Question 14

Booker T Washington

Answer 14

Believed that racism would end if Blacks get labor skills

Question 15

Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute

Answer 15

Founded by Booker T Washington to teach Blacks labor skills to make themselves “useful” to white people

Question 16

Changes in higher education:

Answer 16

1. College enrollment increases
2. Research universities emerge
3. Professional law + med schools established
4. Some colleges require entrance exams

Question 17

Changes in public education:

Answer 17

1. State laws require children to attend school
2. Industrial economy requires certain skills

Question 18

NAWSA

Answer 18

National American Women’s Suffrage Association

Question 19

NACW

Answer 19

National Association of Colored Women

Question 20

Suffrage

Answer 20

women’s right to vote

Question 21

Changes in workforce that impacted women:

Answer 21

1. Higher paying jobs required higher levels of education
2. Poor women were forced to work, Mid-Upper class able to devote themselves to home
3. Earned half men’s wages
4. Most women forced into domestic labor jobs

Question 22

Impact of access to high education on women:

Answer 22

1. Access to more skilled + higher paying jobs
2. Ability to focus more on social reform

Question 23

Women’s tactics to gain suffrage:

Answer 23

1. Convince state legislatures to give women right to vote
2. Test 14th Amendment [states will lose representation if they deny men to vote]
3. Push for constitutional amendment to give women the right to vote

Question 24

Parochial Schools

Answer 24

Schools started by Catholics to give children Catholic educations and seperate them from the Protestant teachings in Public schools