The Progressive Movement

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Chapter 10 Test review

• The Progressive Movement

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Terms to know

• muckrakers
• Socially conscious writers who dramatized the
  need for reform revealed the poop of society
• settlement house
• community center that provided social services to
  the urban poor
• Square Deal
• Theodore Roosevelts plan to keep the wealthy
  from taking advantage of the poor he wanted fair
  government
• Federal Reserve Act
• A law that placed federal banks under the control
  of the Federal Reserve Board
• Naturalist Novel
• A novel that honestly portrays human misery and
  struggles of common people

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Terms to know

• Clayton Antitrust Act
• Strengthened the Sherman Antitrust Act by
  spelling out specific things businesses couldnt
  do
• WCTU
• Womens Christian Temperance Movement group of
  women who worked to end sales, distribution,
  production of alcohol
• NAWSA
• National American Woman Suffrage Association
  worked for womens suffrage by lobbying Congress
  and using the referendum process to change laws
• NAACP
• A group which helps obtain political and social
  justice for African Americans used the courts to
  challenge unfair laws

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Terms to know

• Urban League
• Aid poor African Americans in obtaining
  education, housing, clothes and food
• Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
• monitors business practices that could lead to a
  monopoly such as false advertising, and dishonest
  labeling
• NCL National Consumers League
• Labeled goods produced under fair, safe and
  healthy working conditions and urged women to
  buy them
• The Jungle
• Book written by Upton Sinclair about Chicago
  stockyards and meat packing factories and the
  immigrants who worked at them

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People to know

• Woodrow Wilson
• Progressive president who worked to make business
  practices fair in the US he attacked the triple
  wall of privilege (banks, trusts, tariffs)
• Margaret Sanger
• opened the countrys first birth control clinic
• W.E.B. Dubois
• Leader who urged African Americans to demand
  their rights opposed Booker T. Washington
• Walter Rauschenbusch
• formed the Social Gospel wrote Christianity and
  the Social Gospel

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People to know

• Gifford Pinchot
• Led the Division of Forestry under President
  Theodore Roosevelt
• Booker T. Washington
• Told African Americans to move slowly toward
  progress
• Jane Addams
• opened Hull House (a settlement house) in 1889

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Concepts

• In the 1902 coal miners strike, how did
  Roosevelt respond?
• Threatened to send federal troops and have the
  federal government take over the mines
• Which president(s) wanted to place strict
  government control on corporations?
• Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson
• What did Progressives think was causing the
  social and political problems of the time?
• urbanization and industrialization

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Concepts

• Why were hundreds of members of the National
  Womens Party arrested? (Alice Paul)
• Picketed and protested outside of the White House
• What ethnic group did the Anti-Defamation League
  work for?
• Jewish
• What caused the Republican Party to split during
  the election of 1912?
• A battle between Teddy Roosevelt and William Taft

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Concepts

• Under which act placed national banks under the
  control of the Federal Reserve Board?
• Federal Reserve Act
• What types of customs did the Progressives want
  new immigrants to follow which was the reason
  they promoted Americanization efforts?
• White, middle-class, Protestant ways of life
• What group of people was most affected by the
  Dawes Act? (section 3)