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Chapter 15 Notetaking Study Guide
Now you are ready to answer the Chapter 15 Focus Question: How did society and
politics change during the Progressive Era?
Complete the following chart to help you answer this question. Use the notes that you
took for each section.
Change in the Progressive Era
The Gilded Age and Progressive Reform
• ___________________,
or dishonesty in government was widespread.
corruption
• Critics said a key part of the problem was the ___________________.
spoils system
Efforts to Control Big Business
• Interstate Commerce Act
• Interstate Commerce Commission
• Sherman Antitrust Act
Political Reforms
• Wisconsin Idea
• Pendleton Act
• Seventeenth Amendment
Progressive Presidents
Theodore Roosevelt
• In 1904, he campaigned on the promise of a ___________________
for all Americans.
"Square Deal"
• He also pressed for ____________________,
or the protection of natural resources .
conservation
He had thousands of acres set aside to become ______________.
national parks
Rights of Women
Two Significant Suffragist Leaders:
The _____________________________
Nineteenth Amendment
_______________
and _______________.
women
the right
to vote.
Carrie Chapmen Catt
Alice Paul (or Elizabethguaranteed
Cady Stanton
and Susan
B. Anthony
Struggles for Justice
Booker T. Washington
• founded: ________________________
Tuskeegee Institute
• believed: _________________________
learn trade and earn money
________________________________
then demand equality
W.E.B. Du Bois
• help found: ______________________
NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
• believed: ________________________
urged blacks to fight
________________________________
discrimination rather than submit to it
Mexican Americans
• Barrio: __________________________
ethnic Mexican neighborhoods
________________________________
to preserve language and culture
Asian Americans
• Gentlemen’s agreement: ___________
Japanese
________________________________
stop workers from entering the U.S. & U.S. allows Japanese women to join their husban
Two religious minorities who faced discrimination: _________________
and
Catholics
______________________
Jews
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William H. Taft
Woodrow Wilson
• reputation: _______________________
• reputation: _______________________
quiet and cautious, wary of power
rigid, reformer
• Despite strong Progressive policy record, • Acts of New Freedom program: to
he lost Progressive support.
restore free competition among American corporations
Unit 6 Chapter 15 Notetaking Study Guide