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How did Jacob Riis and Lewis Hines expose conditions during the progressive era?
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They had made excerpts that made it to articles in newspapers. |
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What were issues with politics in the Progressive era? |
Political Corruption was a major target of the political reformers. |
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What were political machines? |
Political machines were a powerful organization that influenced city and county politics in the late 1800's. |
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What were the effects of the spoils system |
Unqualified people getting government jobs |
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How did Muckrakers help the progressive movement |
They helped get rid of most for society's big issues |
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How did city planners improve conditions for the urban poor in the Progressive era? |
They had made things that were recreational for kids and adults. They had made parks, settlement houses, etc. |
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What were settlement houses? |
Settlement houses were places that were built to help provided shelter other than the tenement houses. |
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What is and initiative vs. referendum? |
Initiative- A method of allowing voters to propose a new law if enough signatures are collected on a petition. Referendum- A procedure that allows voters to approve or reject a law already proposed or passed by government. |
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Why did employers hire child laborers? |
They had worked for little pay |
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Why did come families support child labor? |
It had make it possible for the children to work and make money for the family. |
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What was the EFFECT of Upton Sinclair's book The Jungle? |
It had led to a passage of legislation to protect the public from unsanitary food. |
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What event caused factory safety laws to be passed? |
The Triangle Shirtwaist fire |
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What is the difference between capitalism and socialism? |
Socialism was a system in which government owns and operates country's production as capitalism is an economic/political issue system in which country's trade are controlled by private owners. |
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What did Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony fight for? |
They fought for women suffrage |
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Who encouraged African americans to improve their opportunities as the best means of fighting discrimination? |
NAACP |
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NAACP brought attention to racial inequality by: |
A bunch of lawsuits |
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What did the Pure food and Drug act require? |
Prohibited the manufacture and transportation of mislabeled or contaminated food an medicine |
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What was the Square Deal? |
The Square Deal was President Roosevelt domestic program formed upon three basic ideas: Conservation, control of corporations and consumer protection |
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Who created the Square deal? |
Theodore Roosevelt |
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What did Roosevelt do to help the conservation movement? |
He had doubled the number of national parks and preserved 250 million acres of Land. |
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What was the goal of the IWW |
To help get jobs to all americans. |
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What was the main difference between W.E.B Du Bois and Booker T. Washington? |
Washington and W.E.B Du Bois goal the goal of complete integration and social equality |
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What did Ida B. Wells bring attention to? |
She had brought attention to Women Suffrage |
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What was the sixteenth amendment? |
The sixteenth amendment was Income Taxes |
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What was the seventeenth amendment? |
The seventeenth amendment was a constitutional amendment allowing american voters to directly elect U.S senators. |
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What was the eighteenth amendment? |
The eighteenth amendment was an amendment that outlawed the production and sale of alcoholic beverages in the U.S; repealed in 1933 |
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What was the nineteenth amendment? |
The nineteenth amendment was the amendment that gave women the right to vote. |
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What is a labor union |
A labor union is an organized association of workers formed to protect and further their rights and interests |
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What was the Oendletion Civil Servic act? |
It was a federal law that established in 1883 that stipulated that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit |
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What was the Temperance movement |
It was the movement urging the personal consumption of alcoholic beverages |
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What was the goal of Women's Christian Temperance Union? |
The goal was to get other people encouraged with the abstinence of alcoholic beverages |
