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| Who favored slow and moderate change for the rights of Black Americans? |
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| Who favored free love, contraception, and women's emancipation? |
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| Emma Goldman and Margaret Sanger |
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| What type of women supported the Progressive agenda? |
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| What was the most significant achievement of Progressive women? |
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| The settlement house, which by 1900, 100 settlements existed |
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| Who founded the Hull House in Chicago? |
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| What were 5 things that settlement house residents supported? |
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juvenile courts
compulsory education laws
housing laws
factory regulation
sanitation measures |
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| What piece of legislation did law enforcement use to undermine Jack Johnson? |
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| Which fire caused the deaths of 146 women workers in 1911? |
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| Who argued in "An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution" (1913) that the American upper class pushed for a new constitution in 1786-87 to protect its economic interests? |
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| What regions in Europe did the majority of immigrants who arrived in the US between 1890 and the start of WWI come from? |
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| Southern and Eastern Europe |
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| What president was an advocate for environmental conservation? |
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| During his presidency who achieved most of his progressive agenda? |
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| What movement drew support primarily from farmers? |
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| What movement drew its support primarily from city dwellers, middle classes and had a wide following? |
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| What 2 things did progressives see as potentially disruptive forces? |
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| industrialization and urbanization |
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| What was created in 1901 that symbolized the growth of industry, its consolidation and its domination of the market? Who purchased it? |
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| the creation of the US Steel Corporation purchased by JP Morgan from Andrew Carnegie |
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| Who was most directly affected by the growth of industry? |
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| what three issues did reformers focus on to improve conditions for factory workers? |
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compensating workers injured on the job
regulating the hours and wages of working women
and restricting child labor |
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| What was a side effect of the US becoming highly industrialized? |
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| it became highly urbanized |
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| What mayors of cities emphasized the benefits of municipal ownership of public utilities? |
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Samuel Jones (Toledo)
Tom Johnson (Cleveland) |
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| What was the term journalists were called who documented the social costs of urbanization and industrialization? |
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| Who wrote "An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution" that shared the progressive concern with unmasking the real forces in history? |
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| How many immigrants came to the US 25 years before WW1? |
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| Why did most progressives want to restrict immigration? |
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| Who tried but failed at a settlement house for blacks? |
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| During the progressive era who lost the right to vote? and enacted poll taxes? |
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| southern blacks and southern states |
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| Who spoke for blacks who wanted to reject the idea of racial accommodation? |
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| who founded the NAACP in 1910 |
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| Who faced Roosevelt in the Republican Party and Congress and warned the new president to "go slow" |
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| What were 4 important areas of Roosevelt's administration? |
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business
labor
reform legislation
and conservation |
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| What three pieces of legislation were a part of the square deal? |
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The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1905
The Meat Inspection Act of 1906
The Hepburn Act of 1906 |
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| Who created the Forest Service in the Dept of Agriculture? Who was the chief? |
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| Roosevelt created, named Gifford Pinchot chief |
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| Who was sort of a "behind the scenes" president for William Howard Taft? |
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| What 2 constitutional amendments were ratified in 1913? |
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| what three issues alienated progressives from taft? |
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legislative reform
trade
conservation |
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| who created the natl progressive republican league in 1911? |
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| Robert La Follette and Hiram Johnson |
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| Because of Republican disunity, who claimed the white house for the democrats? |
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| what was wilson's slogan? |
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| Who did Wilson nominate to Supreme Court in 1916? |
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| What passenger ship did a German submarine ship sink in May 1915? |
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| What role did Wilson play in the European war in 1915-1916? |
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| Which country did Germany contact to ask for an alliance in the Zimmerman Telegram? |
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| Name two things that Wilson believed were necessary for Democratic political systems? |
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| open markets and capitalism |
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| Who did the US banks provide 2.5 billion in loans and 300 million in loans between 1914 and 1917? |
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| The allies and central powers |
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| Where did the US intervene in 1916 by sending 6000 troops under the command of General Pershing? |
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| What did contemporary critics label the new forms of art produced by artists like John Sloan and George Luks? |
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| Who assumed personal control of American foreign policy after McKinley was assassinated? |
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| How did Roosevelt display American strength in early 1905? |
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| by sending warships to Santo Domingo |
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| How did Roosevelt's attempt at a partnership with the Japanese end badly? |
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| American exporters were driven out of Manchuria (Standard Oil, Swift meatpacking and British American Tobacco) |
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| What conflict ignited the Russian Revolution in 1905 |
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| How did Taft want to show his power? |
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| created new powers that American bankers and industrialists could use in competing for credit and money in foreign money markets |
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| federal reserve banking act of 1913 |
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| allowed exporters to organize associations for the development of overseas trade |
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| the webb pomerene act of 1918 |
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| what was the key to restoring vitality and competition at home? |
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| exporting good political ideals and morality abroad |
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