Progressive Spirit of Reform

What did political machines do in the late 19th century?

• Create trusts and monopolies

• Control and corrupt local politics

• Maintain a robot voting colony on Mars

• Segregate black and white Americans

The National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) did what?

• denied African Americans the right to vote

• set out to keep wealth inequality high in America

• pushed for women to get the right to vote

• stirred up trouble in newspapers

Anti Suffragists thought that women...

• were needed to run the country

• needed to work outside of the home

• should not have suffrage

• were physically strong enough to vote

Ida B. Wells wrote about

• Jim Crow laws

• the conservation of our natural resources

• gross meats being sold

• the cowardice of lynching

What law affected the labeling and sale of rotten food products in America?

• The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906

• The Federal Reserve Act

• The 15th Amendment

• The 18th Amendment

Gilding something means that it....

• Is solid gold

• is legendary

• is rare

• is golden on the surface, but is actually worthless

Licoln Steffens wrote about.....

• African American suffrage

• Universal suffrage

• Political corruption in cities

• Primogeniture

Progressivism is the idea that....

• honest government and new ideas can bring about social justice

• we just need to keep moving

• trusts and monopolies are great ideas for running the government

• presidents should be able to stay in office forever

The NAACP advocated for what?

• equality for African Americans through direct and violent demonstration and protests

• No equality for African Americans

• equality for women in the political process

• equality for African Americans through the political process

Muckrakers...

• hid the problems of the large corporations

• wrote short books of poetry

• exposed the filth and dirt of society

• tried to get alcohol banned in America