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Progressive Era
Progressives
Muckrakers
Ida Tarbell
Upton Sinclair
The Jungle
Jane Addams
Temperance Movement
18th Amendment
Women’s Suffrage Movement
Susan B Anthony
19th Amendment
Segregation
Plessy v. Ferguson
W.E.B. DuBois
NAACP
17th Amendment
Initiative
Recall
Referendum
16th Amendment
CH 7-2 Progressivism
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•Progressives-What did they support?
•What did they call for?
Progressive
Era
•Describe the two views of Progressives from modern historians.
1-Choose two of the additional regulations listed and for each one describe what historical reasons Progressives had for
wanting this ‘change’.
•What did the ‘muckrakers’ write about?
•Why did Roosevelt call them this nickname?
•What did Lincoln Steffens write about:
Muckrakers
•“ Ida Tarbell:
•“ Upton Sinclair:
2-Why do you think the ‘muckrakers’ wanted so much change in society? Provide two reasons.
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3- What measures did the Roosevelt
administration take to regulate
business and protect consumers?
4-What dangers to workers and to
food does Sinclair describe?
5-What does The Jungle suggest
about reasons workers formed
unions?
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•What does Jane Addams open in Chicago?
•Describe the purpose of a settlement house.
Women in the
Progressive
Movement
•What does a settlement house provide to many in the cities in the early 1900s?
6-How did the ‘social gospel’ movement contribute to the efforts of settlement houses?
What was the biggest obstacle
preventing the workers’ escape
from the fire?
Triangle Shirtwaist
Fire
What reforms were initiated
because of the fire?
(video and p.173)
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•Explain what the temperance movement wanted.
•How did Carrie Nation bring attention to the temperance cause?
Temperance
Movement
•Which amendment was passed in 1919?
•What did this amendment do specifically?
(& video)
7-Describe various reasons why you think so many (especially women) were against alcohol during this period.
•What is suffrage?
•When did the fight for women’s suffrage start and where?
•Identify the leaders of the women’s suffrage movement.
Women’s Suffrage
•What did the 19th Amendment do?
•Why do you think it took so long for women to achieve the right to vote?
8-Why do you think that women achieved voting rights in states before the entire nation?
9-What other segments of the US population had fought for voting rights, and won, before women? Which
amendments correspond?
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•What were segregation laws known as across the South?
•Define segregation.
•Provide examples of the segregation.
Progressive
Movement and
Race
•What happened in the court case of Plessy v. Ferguson?
10-How did the ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson affect segregation in the United States?
•Did all white progressives believe segregation was wrong? Explain your answer.
•Describe W.E.B. DuBois’ argument concerning segregation.
•What was the goal of DuBois’ Niagara Movement?
Segregation
•What was (and is) the goal of the NAACP?
11-What was the basis of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson?
12-How did DuBois’ arguments and beliefs about segregation differ from many progressives of the period?
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•How did many Americans view politicians and government at the end of the 1800s?
•How did the 17th Amendment change the way in which Senators were elected?
•Explain how the initiative works.
Political Reforms
•Explain how the recall works.
•Explain how the referendum works.
13-Why do you think the political reforms of the recall, initiative, and referendum were introduced?
14-Following the passage of the 17th Amendment, what is the difference between the Senate and House of
Representatives?
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Constitutional
Amendments in
the Progressive Era
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15-How did progressives feel about government regulation of society? How did many of them feel about segregation?
What were their reasons for these views?
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Food & Drink
Political
Economic
Race
Throughout the section, write in various of new
laws/regulations/standards/changes that accompany
each category during the Progressive Era.
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