1. Leading into the Progressive Era

2. Transportation needs in the cities
Trolleys and Subway companies help create suburbs
New Railroad lines
Elevators in tall buildings

3. Increased people in the cities
City and state Governments Moves to provide residents with services and safe living conditions
Water
Sanitation
Police force
Fire fighters

4. What were some problems in the cities in the late 1800’s?
Poor water quality
Poor sanitation
Lack of police and fire fighters
All of the above

5. Child Labor a problem
National Child Labor Committee gathers pictures and stats. Help push for child labor laws.
Florence Kelley helped slow Child Labor

6. Farm Machines Replace labor
McCormick Reaper and the steel plow
More people move north
Specifically African Americans

7. Which machine led to a migration of people, specifically blacks, from country living to the city?
The reaper
More farms
Fires in the city
Poop disposal

8. Unskilled jobs available in the cities
Immigrants move to the cities. Irish especially.
Mills and factory owners need labor

9. More and more immigrants come to America
Nativism
Federal government creates Immigration restrictions
Chinese Exclusion Act
Gentlemen’s Agreement
literacy tests

10. What is the term used to describe favoring people born in this country over those foreign born for jobs?
Nativism
Eugenics
Melting pot
Plurality

11. More immigrants coming to the cities
Americanization movement to assimilate people into the “American culture
Schools teach & Speak English and know about America

12. Loss of Southern Farms and jobs for African Americans
200,000 African Americans move north to escape prejudice and violence.

13. Lack of Jobs and increasing amounts of poor people
Settlement Houses
Social Gospel Movement
Hull House
Jane Addams and others research problems in the communities

14. Which of the following people, organizations, or movements helped the urban poor?
Jane Addams
Social Gospel movement
Settlement houses
All of the above

15. Lack of Police
YMCA opens libraries, classes, pools and courts. Salvation Army provides food and instructs immigrants about hard work

16. Poor Housing
NYC passes laws for minimum standards for plumbing and ventilation in apartments

17. Sewer lines and sanitation departments created in cities.
“When a horse died, its carcass would be left to rot until it had disintegrated enough for someone to pick up the pieces. Children would play with dead horses lying on the streets. “
Sewer lines and sanitation departments created in cities

18. Political Corruption in Government
Direct election of senators (17th amend.)
Secret ballot elections
Initiative
Referendum
Recall
Federal, state, and local government

19. Which of the following was/were designed to stop corruption in politics?
Initiative
Secret ballot
Recall
All of the above

20. Black inequality W.E.B. Dubois helped develop the NAACP.
Booker T. Washington helped put together the Tuskegee Institute for training and educating black people

21. BUST THE TRUSTS!!! President Teddy Roosevelt busted up trusts.
President William Howard Taft busted up more.

22. Middle class grows Less work hours, more recreation time
Amusement parks
Spectator Sports
Newspapers & magazines

23. Spectator sports, bicycles, amusement parks all became a lot more popular because of the growth of …
The Lower class
The Middle class
No class
Mr. Socha’s class

24. Struggle against lynching
Ida B. Wells wrote about the struggle against lynching and battle for Civil Rights

25. This women wrote and lectured about lynching in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Ida B. Wells
Ida B. Bored
Ida One Passing
Ida Tarbell

26. Poor Food Preparation Congress passed the Pure food and drug act 1906
Roosvelt passed the Meat Inspection Act of 1906

27. Inefficiency in the workplace
Henry Ford- Used the assembly line to speed up production

28. Corrupt Business practices
“Muckrakers” wrote about the corrupt side of business in magazines and newspapers.
Ida Tarbell- Standard oil
Ida B. Wells- Lynching
Eugene V. Debs- Capitalism
Upton Sinclair- Treatment of immigrants and meat industry “The Jungle”

29. What book did Muckraker Upton Sinclair write that dealt with the horrors of the meatpacking industry and immigrants?
The suburbs
The Jungle
The Mountains
The classroom

30. Nationwide Child abuse and Alcohol abuse
NCLC-National Child Labor Committee helped with pictures and investigations
Florence Kelley-advocate for children and women in the workplace
Cary Nation and WCTU- worked for Prohibition

31. Lack of Education State laws require attendance Help teach immigrants
Growth of High schools
Colleges gain more students

32. Lack of Women’s Rights Susan B. Anthony Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Start NAWSA-National Women Suffrage Association
Men feared change in Society
Women’s suffrage the goal (voting)

33. The main goal of women in the early 20th century was…
Cool hair
Suffrage (voting)
Political office
To be a teacher