Unit 5 - Flashcard 3-The Progressive Era

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During the Progressive Era, Jane Addams responded to urban conditions by working to establish
Settlement houses like Hull House that provided assistance to the poor,
Newspapers that helped to inform Americans about slum conditions,
Laws that restricted certain immigrant groups,
Free public schools located in inner-city neighborhoods

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Settlement houses like Hull House that provided assistance to the poor

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In Plessy v. Ferguson(1896), the Supreme Court ruled that:

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Racial segregation was constitutional

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Upton Sinclair and Ida Tarbell could both be described as: Nativists, Muckrakers, Yellow Journalists, Imperialists

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Muckrakers

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The initiative, the referendum, and the recall were adopted by several states during the Progressive Era as ways to:

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Reform government to give people more power

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“The Jungle” in 1906, the book that horrified readers as they read about the US meat packing industry, was written by:

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Upton Sinclair

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Common throughout the South, these laws required segregation:

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Jim Crow Laws

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This Civil Rights Leader was instrumental in creating the NAACP: George Washington Carver, Lewis Lattimer, W.E.B. BuBois, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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W.E.B. BuBois

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A Muckraker who wrote a series of articles for McClure’s Magazine that exposed the abuses of Standard Oil to create its monopoly of the oil industry:

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Ida Tarbell

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During this time a major concern was the use of public lands and the environment. President Theodore Roosevelt set aside millions of acres of public lands to build Yosemite and Yellowstone National Parks.

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Conservation Movement

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This picture represents an issue that was dealt with MOST successfully by which political movement?

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Progressive