progressivism ch 17
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Quiz Chapter 16
1. Landmark case that stated ‘’separate but equal” 2. An architecture who was known as the “Father of the
Skyscraper”3. Name the brothers who invented airplane 4. Name two voting restriction in the south6. Name the person who invented the kodak camera 7. Who manufactured bicycle 8. Who developed coca cola 9. A former slave who believed education is the key to
success 10. Laws that segregated blacks in the South
Progressivism- to correct injustices in
American life
• three areas of reform: – Protecting
social welfare– Promote moral
improvement– Create
economic reform
Hull House – a settlement house set up by Jane Addams (community center in slum neighborhoods, provides assistance, especially immigrants)
• Salvation Army- to aid poor and needy
YMCA• Young Men's Christian
Association• To help young adult use time wisely • Offered libraries, classes, sports
Ida Tarbell
• Exposed the corrupt Standard Oil Company and its owner, John D. Rockefeller
• Appealed to middle class scared by large business power
Muckrakers• Journalists exposes corruption
NAACP• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
• activists to fight for the rights of African Americans
Florence Kelley• helped push legislature to prohibit child labor
and to limit women’s working hours.
Prohibition• called for a ban on making, selling, and
distributing alcoholic beverages.
• Progressives wanted fairer elections and to make politicians more accountable to voters.
– direct primary, an election in which voters choose candidates to run in a general election
Initiative
allows citizens to propose new laws
Referendum
allows citizens to vote on a proposed or existing law
Recall
allows voters to remove an elected official from office
Seventeenth Amendment
• Voters has the power to elect their U.S. senators.
Susan B. Anthony• Helped passed the 19th amendment
– Gave women the right to vote• Suffrage
– Right to vote