CH 8: The Progressives 1890-1

Name_______________________
Date______________Block_____
Concept

Progressivism
muckraker
Lincoln Steffens
Jacob Riis
Social Gospel
settlement houses
Theodore Roosevelt
Square Deal
Upton Sinclair
Meat Inspection Act
Food and Drug Act
Woodrow Wilson
Federal Reserve Act

Ive Never Heard of It

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Couldnt Talk About It

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I Could Say A Few

Words About It

I Know It Well Enough That I Could

Teach Someone Else About It

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CH8: The Progressive Era 1890-1920

Date______________ Block_____
PRIOR KNOWLEDGE: pre/post SELF-ASSESSMENT
Directions: Respond to the following questions specifying your current general knowledge and comprehension of the concepts,
people, places, issues, and events and their impact on this particular era in American Studies.
1. What is Progressivism? Why did it become the most
significance social, political, and economical movement at
the turn of the 20th Century?

2. Who were the muckrakers? What role did journalists and

other groups have on the success and even failures of the
Progressive Movement?

3. What was the Triangle-Shirtwaist Factory fire and what

impact did it have on the relationship between owners and
workers?

4. How did Progressives work to help the urban poor? Who

was Jane Adams? What were settlement houses?

5. Describe the ways in which the Progressives impacted

every level of government: local, state, and federal. What
are the initiative, the referendum, the recall and what
Amendments to the Constitution did Progressives support?

6. Evaluate the Progressive Movement on minority groups. Who

was Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Dubois, Ida B. Wells?
How did they view Progressivism?

7. Analyze the tactics women and womens groups like NAWSA

and the NWP and how they tried to achieve womens
suffrage?

8. Explain the significance of the novel, The Jungle, by Upton

Sinclair and the subsequent passage of the Meat Inspection
Act and the Food and Drug Act.

9. Assess Teddy Roosevelts role in the Progressive Movement.

What were some of his major accomplishments domestically
during the era? Why should he be or not be on Mt.
Rushmore?

10. Defend or reject Woodrow Wilson as a Progressive. What is

the Sixteenth Amendment? The Federal Reserve Act? The
Underwood Tariff Act?

Lincoln
Steffens

Progressivism

muckraker

Social Gospel

settlement
houses

direct primary

recall

The Nineteenth
Amendment
(1920)

Booker T.
Washington

Jacob Riis

initiative and
referendum
8

W.E.B. Du
Bois

AntiDefamation
League

mutualistas

Square Deal

Meat
Inspection Act

Pure Food and

Drug Act

John Muir

Federal
Reserve Act

Federal Trade
Commission

in the late nineteenth century he New York reporter who launched a

exposed the horrendous living
series of articles in McClure's that
conditions for the urban poor; he was were published in a book titled The
one of the earliest of Americas
Shame of the Cities; specialized in
photojournalists and he showed
investigating government and
Americans what conditions were like political corruption; investigated
in tenement buildings in his book corruption in municipal government
How the Other Half Lives.
in American cities.
these concepts combined offered
people more chances to participate in
our democracy by being able to
propose new laws and getting them
on a ballot as a measure to be passed
by the local citizenry and to allow
citizens to approve of or reject laws
passed specifically by a legislature.

movement that responded to the

journalists, writers and social
pressures of industrialization and
critics that reported and
urbanization by promoting reforms In
exposed hazardous conditions
society, government and business;
in factories and cities during the sought reform in virtually every aspect
of American life through media,
Progressive era; major figures
journalists, religious groups and
included Upton Sinclair, Ida
labor; saw a more active, participatory
Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens.
citizenry.

organized at the turn of the

an election in which citizens vote
twentieth
century these community
to select nominees for an upcoming
centers
and
more specifically living
election; these are critical to more
shelters
were
focused for women
voter participation and impact on
and
children
suffering
the hardships
who holds a particular office; it gives
of
decent
housing
and
quality
citizens more say and command in
working
conditions;
a
leading
figure
who runs and potentially wins an
and
model
example
was
Jane
elected office; more democratic.
Addams Hull House in Chicago.

a detailed, specific plan for

building a better society;
blending of ideas from German
socialism and American
Progressivism into a plan for
building a better, equitable,
more just, society.

wrote Souls of Black Folk highly

educated the first Black Ph.D. from Harvard
"Beauty is Black pull oneself up by their
boots straps blacks should build their
own business, newspapers, colleges
participated in the Niagara Movement
attacking limitations on voting, economic
opportunity and segregation founded the
National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People (NAACP) editor of "The
Crisis"

wrote Up From slavery educator,

reformer preached a philosophy of selfhelp, racial solidarity believed in
accommodation; urged blacks to accept
discrimination for the time being believed
in education in the crafts, industrial and
farming skills practice virtues of patience,
enterprise and thrift to win the respect of
whites and lead to African Americans being
fully accepted as citizens and integrated
into American society.

effectively womens suffrage

as passed through the Congress
of the United States;
spearheaded by two major
womens groups NAWSA and
the NWP with charismatic
figures such as Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, Carrie Chapman Catt,
Alice Paul and Lucy Burns.

process by which
voters can remove
elected officials from
office before their terms
has ended.

passed by Congress when

Upton Sinclair exposed the
slaughterhouses of Chicago in
his novel The Jungle; Pres.
Roosevelt was said to be
disgusted by the revelations and
sent inspectors which resulted in
Americans being more protected
in the food they consume.

candidate, and then

president, Theodore
Roosevelts program of
reforms to keep the
wealthy and powerful
from taking advantage of
small business owners
and the poor.

organized groups of
Mexican-Americans that
make loans and provide
loans and provide legal
assistance to other
members of their
community.

organization formed in
1913 to defend Jews
against physical and
verbal attacks and false
statements.

government agency
established in 1914 to
identify monopolistic
business practices, false
advertising, and dishonest
labeling of products.

placed national banks under

the control of a central
authority; put into place in order
to smooth monetary issues that
might arise from cyclic booms
and busts in the economy.

naturalist, environmental
philosopher, early advocate of
preservation of wilderness in the US;
wrote letters, essays, and books telling
of adventures in nature, especially in
the Sierra Nevada mountains; his
activism helped to preserve Yosemite
Valley, Sequoia National Park; founded
the Sierra Club.

a 1906 law passed by Congress

that insists that federal inspectors
preview and screen consumables
as well as medicines and forced
manufactures to label products
giving consumers more
information, empowering us to be
informed consumers.