Video Worksheet: The Progressive Movement

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Women take the Lead

1) Name the woman who started Hull House, a Chicago settlement house where rich and poor, immigrant and native could find a home.

Jane Addams

2) Name one good example of the kinds of problems Progressivism tried to fix during the early 20th century.

Child Labor

A Clash of Cultures

3) Progressive leaders hoped education reform would do what to the large numbers of immigrants coming into American society

Americanization

4) Which symbol of alcohol did Progressive reformers try to remove even though it was a central meeting place for immigrant workers?

The Saloon

Muckrakers and Bosses

5) Name one of the best-known muckrakers who exposed the waste and greed of the modern United States.

Lincoln Steffens

6) What institution was investigated by Steffens and other writers, giving rise to Roosevelt's term "muckrakers?"

The US Senate

7) What did the Progressives believe was true about the bosses that ran the large American cities and handed out favors in return for votes and power?

The bosses were corrupt.

8) Which election reform prevented the Boss from knowing how people voted, and in turn, who to reward or punish?

The secret ballot

Fighting The Trusts

9) What did Cornelius Vanderbilt say when asked if his railroad  benefited the public interest?

"The public be damned."

10) What power did the large trusts have over the economy, and eventually led to their break-up?

The trusts could raise prices.

11) The actions of which trust was exposed by Ida Tarbell, who criticized its founder, John D. Rockefeller?

Standard Oil Company

12) Which industry was described in the 1906 book The Jungle, written by Upton Sinclair?

The Meatpacking industry

13) Which term means that a worker will receive money from the government or from the corporation if injured on the job?

Worker's Compensation

14) Name the Progressive president who was the youngest man to ever hold the nation's highest office.

Theodore Roosevelt

15) Which law did Roosevelt sign as a result of the public pressure caused by Sinclair's The Jungle?

The Meat Inspection Act

16) Name the law that controlled medicines and banned false labeling on packages.

The Pure Food & Drug Act

Teddy & the Professor

17) Which president took over in the role of "trust-buster" after Roosevelt left the White House in 1909?

William Taft

18) What was the name of the party Roosevelt led in the 1912 election after he broke with the Republicans?

The Progressive Party

19) Who won the election of 1912 as a result of Roosevelt's splitting the Republicans, promising to rid the nation of the trusts?

Woodrow Wilson

20) Which financial institution came under federal control with the passage of the Federal Reserve Act?

The Banks

Freedom? Whose Freedom?

21) Name the 1896 case that upheld the "separate but equal" laws of the segregated South.

Plessy vs. Ferguson

22) What is the term for a killing of someone, usually by hanging, because they belong to a race or other ethnic group?

Lynching

23) Which black leader argued that patience, hard work, and black self help would bring about economic equality with whites?

Booker T. Washington

24) Which black leader demanded immediate equal rights in the education, housing and employment?

W. E. B. DuBois

25) Name the group that was often a target of persecution, and who believed that the workers, not the bosses, should own the nation's industries.

Socialists

26) Who was the 1912 presidential candidate who gained almost one million votes and who was later arrested for being against the US entry into World War I?

Eugene V. Debs

27) What was the nickname given to the members of the Industrial Workers of the World, who were often harassed or shot and killed during the early 20th century?

Women Suffragists

28) All too often, giving women the right to vote was expressed in what kind of negative terms?

In racist terms

29) What was made illegal after World War I with the passage of Prohibition?

Alcohol

30) Name two periods in American history when the spirit of progressivism would be revived in the believe that America could reshape the world?

The 1930s and 1960s

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