Progressive Test Tomorrow!

Notes to Study

• 4 Progressive Goals in your spiral notebook• Muckraker notes (The Jungle – Upton Sinclair)• Cleaning up gov’t notes and women reform notes

(guided notes)• Warm ups from the last 2 weeks• Amendments notes in spiral• Taft/Wilson notes – handed out last week (4

slides)• Study guide

Progressive Era

• In General, progressives wanted to…– Help put more power in the hands of the average

PERSON, NOT the wealthy business man– Help those people working in the factories, not

those who owned the factories– Follow the 4 GOALS• Social welfare, moral improvement, economic reform

(competition and muckraking) and fostering efficiency

Questions 1 - 3• 1.) What did Taft “bust up” better than Roosevelt?• -trusts

• 2.) What is a tax on imports? • -tariff

• 3.) What is an effect of lowering tariffs?• -increases competition by allowing more foreign goods

into the country – potentially would be cheaper than the U.S. good (helps out people in the U.S. afford products)

Questions 4 - 6• 4.) What is the purpose of antitrust legislation?• -to break up trusts (monopolies) to create more competition –

competition is good for consumers b/c prices will drop

• 5.) What is the “watchdog” agency that investigates companies to be sure they do not form trusts?

• -Federal Trade Commission

• 6.) What is the 19th Amendment? Why is it a “progressive” amendment?

• -women’s suffrage – allowing women to vote was a moral issue (all created equal), social welfare (women could vote on issues facing America)

Questions 7 - 9

• 7.) Who were journalists that used their writing to expose big business corruption?

• Muckrakers

• 8.) What book did Upton Sinclair write?• The Jungle

• 9.) What law came out of the investigation of the meat packing industry?

• Meat Inspection Act

Questions 10 and 11

• 10.) List the 4 goals of the progressive movement.• -Protecting Social Welfare, Promoting Moral Improvement,

Creating Economic Reform, Fostering Efficiency (will need to describe these)

• 11.) How did Progressives try to “improve moral standards”?

• -Banning alcohol (18th Amendment) and banning child labor

• -women’s suffrage

Questions 12 - 14

• 12.) How did politics or government change as a result of the Progressive Movement?

• -people get more voice – recall, referendum, initiative, 17th Amendment

• 13.) What was the Seneca Falls Convention?• -the first women’s rights convention in 1848

• 14.) Who was a leader at Seneca Falls?• -Susan B. Anthony

Questions 15 - 17

• 15.) How did city or local governments improve efficiency? • -Commission System - hired experts (qualified people who

knew how to run a city)

• 16.) What is the 17th Amendment?• -Direct Election of Senators (ppl choose, not state legislatures)

• 17.) Why is the 16th Amendment called a PROGRESSIVE income tax?

• -The more you make, the higher percentage you pay

Questions 18 - 20

• 18.) What is prohibition?• Banned the sale and drinking of alcohol

• 19.) Which industry went on strike and Teddy Roosevelt answered?

• -coal mines

• 20.) How did Progressives try to improve “social welfare”?• -community centers, opened libraries, recreation facilities,

classes, social services