PROGRESSIVISM – ABC-CLIO ACTIVITY US HISTORY – CORNWELL GO TO the Northeast Media Center Home Page and CLICK on Databases CLICK on ABC-CLIO American History (and again…) CLICK on Research Lists on the left hand side. CLICK on Progressivism: Mr. Cornwell Follow the directions and answer the questions that follow each segment.

• Reforming Government: Related Entry: Progressive Era 1. What years did the Progressive Era cover? 2. Who were the Progressives? 3. The source of societies problems was related to what TWO things? 4. The “most prominent Progressive reforms took place” in what FOUR areas?

• Reforming Government: Introduction: Of the People, by the People, for the People 5. According to the section “Of the People”, who and what did progressives stand for? 6. According to the section “By the People”, what FIVE measures did Progressives advocate? 7. What do “Direct Primaries” do? 8. According to the section “For the People”, what “long-time political traditions” did Progressives try to eliminate?

• Reforming Government: Related Entry: progressive movement 9. “Progressives, who included both ____________________ and ___________________, championed such

causes as _____ reform, ________ suffrage, political reform, ______________ regulation, the ______________

wage, the _______-hour work day, and workers' ___________________. The movement was aided by a breed

of journalists called __________________, who revealed corruption and societal ills, and preachers of the

___________ Gospel, who advocated ____________________ principles as the solution to those ills.”

10. What event ended the Progressive Era?

• Social Gospel movement

11. The Social Gospel movement combined a social welfare agenda with what? 12. “The Federal Council of Churches of America issued a statement called the Social Creed of the Churches.

The document called for a living __________, improved working conditions for _________, and an end to

__________ labor.”

• Regulating Business: Related Entry: muckraker movement 13. What did the ‘muckraker movement use to promote the Progressive Era? 14. What two related areas of concern did the muckrakers focus on? 15. Who was the primary audience of the muckrakers? 16. What magazine promoted the muckraker movement?

• Regulating Business: Introduction: Into the Jungle 17. Read the Paragraph from “The Jungle”. Write a TWO sentence opinion and reaction in the space provided.

• Lincoln Steffens: The Shame of the Cities (1906)

18. What problems did Steffens focus on in his books?

• Moral Reform: Related Entry: Jane Addams 19. What was the name of Addams’ settlement house? 20. Besides Settlement houses, what THREE other prominent social issues was Addams involved with?

• Reforming Government: Related Entry: child labor 21. At one point, child labor was considered so important in America that WHAT was designed around the work schedule? 22. What law was passed in 1916 discouraging child labor and made hiring children under 14 illegal?

• Seventeenth Amendment 23. The 17th Amendment allowed for the direct election of what national officials?

• Reforming Government: Illustration 24. What were the FOUR workplace reforms instituted in Wisconsin during the Progressive Era?

• Theodore Roosevelt: Controlling the Trusts speech (1901) 25. What did Roosevelt propose for in dealing with the trusts?

• Regulating Business: Related Entry: conservation movement 26. Scroll down to the section that covers from 1875-1907.

What were the goals of the “preservationists”? What were the goals of the “conservationists”? • Reforming Government: Related Entry: Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)

27. Why was the Pure Food and Drug Act passed in 1906?

• Regulating Business: Illustration 28. What measure was taken in 1982? 29. What is the most recent item to be targeted by the Food and Drug Administration according to this chart?

• Sixteenth Amendment 30. What did the 16th Amendment legalize?

• Moral Reform: Related Entry: Carry Nation 31. What ‘weapon’ did Carry Nation use to advance the cause of Prohibition?

• Eighteenth Amendment 32. What did the 18th Amendment do? Be specific.

• Reforming Government: Related Entry: Progressive Party 33. What was the nickname of the Progressive Party? 34. What candidate won the election of 1912?

• Theodore Roosevelt: New Nationalism speech (1910) 35. Click on the glossary terms. What was “New Nationalism” mean in 1910?

• Reforming Government: Related Entry: Clayton Antitrust Act (1914) 36. What previous Act did the Clayton Act strengthen? 37. In addition to imposing even more restrictions on monopolies, what did the law ‘declare’?

• Reforming Government: Related Entry: Federal Trade Commission Act (1914) 38. What is the FTC an example of Congress doing?

• New Women: Illustration 39. In what city and state did the modern women’s rights/suffrage movement “officially” begin? 40. In what year was the women’s suffrage amendment passed? 41. In what year was the women’s suffrage amendment ratified by the states?

• New Women: Related Entry: woman suffrage movement 42. Name 5 of the women mentioned in the article.

• New Women: Related Entry: Women's Suffrage by State, 1915 43. According to the map, which state was the first to have full women’s suffrage?

• New Women: Related Entry: Nineteenth Amendment 44. What was the official date the 19th Amendment was ratified?