Progressivism ch 17

Quiz Chapter 16

1. Landmark case that stated ‘’separate but equal” 2. An architecture who was known as the “Father of the

Skyscraper”3. Name the brothers who invented airplane 4. Name two voting restriction in the south6. Name the person who invented the kodak camera 7. Who manufactured bicycle 8. Who developed coca cola 9. A former slave who believed education is the key to

success 10. Laws that segregated blacks in the South

Progressivism- to correct injustices in

American life

• three areas of reform: – Protecting

social welfare– Promote moral

improvement– Create

economic reform

Hull House – a settlement house set up by Jane Addams (community center in slum neighborhoods, provides assistance, especially immigrants)

• Salvation Army- to aid poor and needy

YMCA• Young Men's Christian

Association• To help young adult use time wisely • Offered libraries, classes, sports

Ida Tarbell

• Exposed the corrupt Standard Oil Company and its owner, John D. Rockefeller

• Appealed to middle class scared by large business power

Muckrakers• Journalists exposes corruption

NAACP• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

• activists to fight for the rights of African Americans

Florence Kelley• helped push legislature to prohibit child labor

and to limit women’s working hours.

Prohibition• called for a ban on making, selling, and

distributing alcoholic beverages.

• Progressives wanted fairer elections and to make politicians more accountable to voters.

– direct primary, an election in which voters choose candidates to run in a general election

Initiative

allows citizens to propose new laws

Referendum

allows citizens to vote on a proposed or existing law

Recall

allows voters to remove an elected official from office

Seventeenth Amendment

• Voters has the power to elect their U.S. senators.

Susan B. Anthony• Helped passed the 19th amendment

– Gave women the right to vote• Suffrage

– Right to vote