Transcript Chapter 10 Test review

Chapter 10 Test review
THE PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT
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 Roosevelt’s 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
Terms to know
Clayton Antitrust Act
Strengthened the Sherman Antitrust Act by spelling
out specific things businesses couldn’t do
WCTU
Women’s Christian Temperance Movement; group of
women who worked to end sales, distribution,
production of alcohol
NAWSA
National American Woman Suffrage Association;
worked for women’s 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
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
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 country’s 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
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;
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
Concepts
Why were hundreds of members of the National Women’s
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
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)