History

1. Primary focus of late-19th and early 20th-century Progressivism: eliminating inefficiency and corruption in government
2. Period immediately after the civil war: reconstruction, because the US congress wanted to completely overhaul the economies, governments, social structures, and laws of the defeated southern states and punish the Southern loyalist for treason.
3. An American cowboy wasmore likely to be: African American or Latino man who was unable to find opportunities in more settle areas of the US or a young man in search of adventure, quick money, and/or an escape form the law or other obligations in Eastern US.
4. Examples of successful Progressive era programs in legislation: women’s suffrage, improved worker’s safety and child labor laws, wider access to education,assimilation education for immigrants, and emergency, short-term housing in settlement houses.
5. Prior to the American Civil War, most Americans lived: Agrarian lives
6. William Randolph Hearst is an example of: an early 20th century magnate, a member of the nouveau riche, and a war-monger
7. Who found American west to be an attractive option: prostitutes, Latter-Day-Saints, small merchants, youngfamilies wanting to start on free land
8. Progressives believed: that specific principles could and should be applied to every area of life and by doing so, social problems such as poverty, corruption, and unhappiness could be eliminated in America
9. Progressives also believed that: it was the government’s responsibility to provide money to citizens who had fallen on hard times.
10. TheodoreRoosevelt was: a big game hunter, New York city police commissioner, head of the US Civil Service Commission, environmentalist cowboy, war hero, and media icon.
11. Political party associated with late 19th and early 20th century progressivism: republicans
12. 13th amendment: declare slavery to be illegal in the US
13. Urbanization and industrialization are: independent movements which are thehallmarks of the modern world
14. Problems not associated with increased urbanization: drought, blight, pestilence, and plummeting land values
15. Patriarchy: women prevented from voting, serving on juries, or pursuing the same rights and privileges as men under this system
16. Patriarchal system dictates: white men are responsible for protecting and providing for others
17. Assimilation:immigrants to the US were expected to become successful
18. The Nouveau Riche: were most likely expected to indulge in conspicuous consumption
19. Victories of the US progressives in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: women’s suffrage, civil service laws, child labor laws, drug safety, and national parks
20. Abraham Lincoln’s plan for dealing with the confederate leaders after the civil war:offer them amnesty
21. 14th amendment: provides that ALL people born in the USA are citizens
22. 15th amendment: (all males can vote) was frequently circumvented by the implementation of literacy test, poll taxes, and even illegal intimidation of voters in southern states.
23. Teddy Roosevelt first 2 government positions (director of US Civil service commission and a Commissioner of the New YorkCity police Department): show his commitment to progressive ideals
24. Sharecropping: not much different from slavery for African Americans
25. Example of muckraking: books “The Jungle” and “How The Other Half Lives”
26. Indian schools want “to kill the Indian boy” because: they believed that Indian customs and languages prevented native children from being successful in American society
27.Progressives support 18th amendment because: they believed alcohol was a major factor in keeping poor people poor and lazy as well as causing men to abandon their families
28. Black codes: post-Civil War laws in southern states making it illegal for African Americans to vote, own land or learn to read.
29. Debt peonage: a system by which African Americans and poor whites were kept in positions...