Progressive Era (5.1 & 5.3)

The Progressive Movement wanted to

• Fix problems that had arisen

• Protect big business interests

• Expand America's landholdings

• Encourage monopolies

The Progressive Movement had all of the following goals except:

• Protecting social welfare

• Promoting business monopolies

• Creating economic reform

• Fostering efficiency in the workplace

Fundamentally Progressives believed that government:

• Should stay out of people’s lives

• Should try to solve society's problems

• Should deal only with foreign policy issues

• Should only regulate interstate commerce

Journalist who exposed social, economic & political wrongs were known as:

• Schmucks

• Cowtippers

• Muckrakers

• Wobblies

According to temperance (prohibition) movements, drinking alcohol caused all of the following EXCEPT:

• Violence

• Social problems

• Family Unity

• Poverty

Which of the following was an idea of W.E.B. DuBois:

• He advocated job training for blacks

• He did not think blacks were ever capable of equality

• His ideas were celebrated by whites

• He demanded immediate equality with whites

Which of the following was an idea espoused by Booker T. Washington:

• He thought blacks should slowly earn respect by learning a trade

• He wanted immediate civil rights and equality

• He helped found the NAACP

• He did not think blacks were ever capable of equality

Progressivism

• is a reform movement that tried to alleviate many of the problems of industrialization

• believed that the government should play a minimal role in society

• is a belief that free market capitalism should be unrestrained by government

• is the belief that technology ultimately would solve the nations problems

The primary emphasis of the progressive movement was on:

• freeing individuals and corporations from Federal control

• utilizing all land for the sake of building cities

• improving the lives of people through the government

• organizing workers into a unified and class-conscious political party

Direct election of Senators

• 16th Amendment

• 17th Amendment

• 18th Amendment

• 19th Amendment