Populists & Progressives

Unit 3 ReviewAmerican History

____________________ The Political cartoonist who brought down the Tweed Ring

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Could get nasty Thomas Nast

The following reforms were adopted during the Progressive era: regulation of _______ industry, stronger ________ laws, protection of national ________

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Not vegetable, monopoly, praires

meatpacking

Anti-trust forests

3rd Party organized by farmers who sought to end political corruption, make America more democratic, and change monetary policies

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Peoples Populists

a goal of the Populist movement was the free coinage of

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Not gold silver

Laws passed in the south to segregate African-Americans and prevent them from voting and equality

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Not Bill Bluejay Jim Crow

Progressive movement was middle-class reaction to problems of _______, _______, ______

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Citiesindustrializati

on

Urbanization Immigration

what amendment provided for a national income tax?

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sweet 16th

In 1911, 146 women burned to death in their workplace; led to creation of labor & safety laws

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Not Square Pant Blaze

Triangle Shirtwaist

Fire

Jane Addams was a turn-of-the-century activist most well-known for her work in

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Immigrant Cottages

Settlement Houses

Who said “You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.”

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Great Commoner

William Jennings

Bryan

Kansas Populist leader who said. “raise less corn and more hell” in the fight against railroad corruption and high mortgage rates was

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Marybeth Rent

Mary Elizabeth

Lease

The Supreme Court ruling in 1896 that upheld segregation as long as it was equal was

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Not Brown v Topeka

Plessy v Ferguson

Political machines such as Tweed Ring ran American cities at the turn of the century derived their strongest voter support from poor _____ and ethnic communities in inner _____

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Newcomerstowns

Immigrantscities

Popular American musical genre from 1895-1917, piano compositions based on the march with syncopation, began in St. Louis and New Orleans was

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syncopated Ragtime

Muckraking journalist and founding member of NAACP, led fight against frequent lynching of African American men in the south

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Not TarbellIda B. Wells

Barnett

In the elections of __________ and __________, the major campaign issue was the free and unlimited coinage of silver

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2 & 6 1892, 1896

wrote of government and business corruption, abuse, and mismanagement; led to widely supported public demands for effective reform

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Mold leaf pickers muckrakers

Progressive President from 1913-1921, his program New Freedom pushed through reforms like the Federal Reserve Board.

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President of Princeton

Woodrow Wilson

Published by Upton Sinclair in 1906, it exposed the lack of sanitation in the meat-packing industry.

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The Rainforest The Jungle

Led the final fight to achieve women’s suffrage

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Hunger striker Alice Paul

___of New York City headed a “ring” of politicians that cheated New York City of $100,000,000 through fraudulent city contracts and extortion

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BossWilliam Marcy

Tweed

Populist party had great economic and political impact on U.S. mainly due to the ____ platform that raised the issue of uncontrolled industrial capitalism

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Nebraska City Omaha

Progressive reformer who fought for women and children in the workplace and helped pass the Keating-Owen Act that banned child labor was

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F.K.Florence

Kelley

Founder of Tuskegee Institute and main African-American spokesperson of late 19th Century, who in Atlanta Exposition supported segregation in return for economic opportunities.

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Not GeorgeBooker T.

Washington

Theodore Roosevelt involved himself in ________ of labor disputes, ________-busting, and con____________

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Mediation, monopoly, environment

trust

arbitration

conservation

Comprehension questions over the documents studied during this unit such as:

Mr. Washington practically accepts the alleged inferiority of the Negro races. Mr. Washington withdraws many of the high demands of Negroes as men and American citizens. He asks that black people give up, at least for the present, three things— First, political power; Second, insistence on civil rights; Third, higher education of Negro youth,

No more millionaires, and no more paupers; no more gold kings, silver kings and oil kings, and no more little waifs of humanity starving for a crust of bread. We shall have the golden age of which Isaiah sang and the prophets have so long foretold; when the farmers shall be prosperous and happy, dwelling under their own vine and fig tree; when the laborer shall have that for which he toils. . . .When we shall have not a government of the people by capitalists, but a government of the people, by the people.

Essay questions: Compare and contrast the goals,

methods, and achievements of the Populist and Progressive Reform Movements.

Analyze the roles that women played in Progressive Era reforms from the 1880s through 1920. Use 3 women In at least two different reforms movements as examples.

Evaluate the effectiveness of Theodore Roosevelt’s Square Deal.

Comprehension Questions over Political Cartoons such as:

You should recognize: