The Progressive Era
The Origins of
Progressivism
___________________________How old was Camella Teoli when she went to work in a textile
mill to support her family?
___________________________What happened to Camella Teolia soon after starting work?
___________________________List the four goals of Progressivism
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___________________________This organization opened libraries, sponsored classes, and built
swimming pools and handball courts?
___________________________This organization fed poor people in soup kitchens and cared
for children in nurseries?
___________________________She was an advocate for improving the lives of women and
children.
___________________________She won passage of the Illinois Factory act of 1893.
___________________________The banning of alcoholic beverages.
___________________________They feared that alcohol was undermining American morals.
___________________________This organization, founded in 1874, spearheaded the crusade
for prohibition.
___________________________This prompted some Americans to question the capitalist
economic system.
___________________________He helped organize the American Socialist Party in 1901.
___________________________Who often received favorable treatment from government
officials and politicians?
___________________________Journalist who wrote about the corruption in business and
public life.
___________________________She wrote History of the Standard Oil Company.
___________________________Lawyer who defended the 10 hour workday for women factory
and laundry workers.
___________________________The type of legal argument that focuses on data produced by
social scientists.
___________________________Studies to show just how quickly a task can be performed?
___________________________This innovation did speed up production, but required people to
work like machines and caused a high worker turnover.
___________________________To keep automobile workers happy and prevent strikes he
reduced the workday to 8 hours and paid workers $5 a day.
___________________________They rewarded their supporters with jobs and kickbacks, and
openly bought votes.
___________________________This city adopted the city commission form of government
after the 1900 hurricane.
___________________________The council-manager form of government was adopted in this
city after the flood of 1913.
___________________________This city pioneered the council-manager form of government.
___________________________Progressive reform mayor of
instituted a fairer tax structure.
___________________________ Progressive reform mayor of
converted utilities to publicly owned enterprises.
___________________________Progressive reform governor of
nicknamed “Fighting Bob”.
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Expanding Public
Education
___________________________By early 1900 how many students attended high school?
___________________________This group was mostly excluded from public education.
Why?_________________________________________________________________________
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___________________________This group was encouraged to attend public schools.
Why?_________________________________________________________________________
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___________________________What was the increase in college enrollment between 1880
and 1920?
___________________________He believed racism would end once blacks acquired labor skills
and proved their economic value to society.
___________________________He was born a slave and in 1881 headed the Tuskegee Institute
(now
___________________________He was the first African American to earn a doctorate from
Harvard (1895)
___________________________He founded the Niagara Movement which encouraged blacks
to seek a liberal arts education.
___________________________By the turn of the 20th century educational opportunities had
increased but what remained a thorn in the flesh of American
society?
Segregation and
Discrimination
___________________________She was born a slave, but later worked as a teacher and
newspaper editor
___________________________List two restrictions that prevented African Americans from
voting in the southern states after Reconstruction.
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___________________________What did many southern states add to their constitutions that
allowed ineligible white sharecroppers to vote?
___________________________name given to segregation laws that separated blacks and
whites in southern society.
___________________________The Supreme Court ruled in this 1896 case that separation of
the races was legal in public accommodations.
___________________________This Supreme Court case established the “separate but equal”
doctrine.
___________________________This Supreme Court case legalized racial segregation for
almost 60 years.
___________________________What was a common punishment for blacks who violated the
rules of a southern segregated society (peaked in the 1880’s
and 1890’s)?
___________________________Why did many blacks move to northern cities by 1900?
___________________________They were forced to live in segregated neighborhoods in
northern cities.
___________________________They were discouraged from joining labor unions.
___________________________They were the first to be fired by employers when northern
factories laid off workers.
___________________________a system that bound laborers into slavery in order to work off a
debt to the employer.
___________________________In 1882 Congress slammed the door on Chinese immigration
by passing this act.
___________________________By 1880 how many Chinese immigrants lived in the United
States?
The Dawn of Mass
Culture
___________________________They often built amusement parks on the outskirts of town to
attract riders.
___________________________She declared, “I think [bicycling] has done more to emancipate
women than anything else in the world…”
Why did she make the above statement?___________________________________________
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___________________________This sport that originated in
popular in
the
___________________________Chocolate bar first sold in 1900.
___________________________drink originally formulated by
an
for headaches in 1886.
___________________________Two popular spectator sports by the turn of the 20th century.
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___________________________He pioneered the large Sunday edition newspaper and
emphasized “sin, sex, and sensation” to outsell his competitor.
___________________________He owned the
newspapers with exaggerated tales of personal scandals,
cruelty, hypnotism, etc. to sell papers.
___________________________He wrote Huckleberry Finn.
___________________________America’s first department store
located in
___________________________Chain retail store that boasted 596 stores by 1911.
___________________________These two department stores, established in 1872 and 1886,
brought retail merchandise to rural towns through catalog sales.