What was the goal of the Progressive era?

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What was the goal of the Progressive era?
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To fix the problems caused by industrialization(
to make things better in America)
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What were some things that needed to be fixed
(reformed) in America?
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child laborlong working hourslow
wagesdiscriminationpoor living
conditionsunsafe working conditions
in factoriesunclean food conditions
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What is a reform?
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A change
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What is suffrage?
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The right to vote
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How did women win the right to vote?
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Marchesspeecheshunger strikes
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What famous women worked for the Suffrage
Movement?
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Susan B. AnthonyElizabeth Cady Stanton
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What did the 19th amendment do?
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Gave women the right to vote
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What was the goal of the Temperance Movement?
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To make alcohol illegal
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Why did many women believe Temperance was
important?
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Drinking caused too many problems
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Who was Cary Nation?
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Woman who used an ax to destroy bars
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What was prohibition?
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When it was illegal to make and sell alcohol
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What was the 18th amendment?
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Made selling and making alcohol illegal
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Why didnt prohibition work?
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Too difficult to control
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What did the 21st amendment do?
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repealed prohibition (alcohol no longer illegal)
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What was a muckraker?
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a person who shows or tells others about the bad
things that are happening in the cities
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What types of jobs may a muckraker have?
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photographercartoonistauthorjournalist
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Who wrote the book, The Jungle?
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Upton Sinclair
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What problem of industrialization does The Jungle
tell people about?
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unclean and unsafe conditions in the meatpacking
industry (in the meat factories)
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What were the outcomes of The Jungle?(When
people read The Jungle, what happened?
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The Pure Food Drug Act and theMeat Inspection
Actwere passed and made meat, other foods and
medicines more safe
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What problem did Jacob Riiss book, How the Other
Half Lives, tell readers?
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told people about the terrible living conditions
of the tenements
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Who was Boss Tweed?
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A political boss who stole 10 million of NYCs
tax money
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What happened to Boss Tweed?
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Thomas Nast drew a cartoon of Boss Tweed getting
fat off of tax payers moneypolice arrested Boss
Tweed
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What was the 17th amendment?
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Direct election of senators (you couldnt just
be given the job because you had a lot of money
or you were friends with someone)
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What was the Civil Service Commission?
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made it so you had to pass a test to get hired
for a federal job (postman, etc.)