1. The Progressive Movement

2. What type of reforms were the 17th Amendment and anti-trust laws?
Progressive reforms on the national level.

3. What was the 17th Amendment?
Direct election of United States senators

4. What was the major weakness in the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
The wording was too vague.

5. What was the name of the early twentieth century social and political reform movement, which occurred on every level of government in the United States?
The Progressive Movement

6. Name a leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement.
Susan B. Anthony

7. At what level of government were child labor laws an example of a Progressive reform?
State government

8. Which Progressive president was known for offering the American people a “Square Deal”?
Theodore Roosevelt

9. What does anti-trust mean?
Anti-monopoly

10. What Progressive president was known for the New Freedom?
Woodrow Wilson

11. Which constitutional amendment gave women the right to vote?
19th Amendment

12. What did the term “trust” mean during the late 19th and early 20th centuries?
A business monopoly

13. What is another word for the right to vote?
Suffrage

14. What does the term monopoly mean?
Absence of Competition

15. Who were the Muckrakers?
Progressive writers who wrote about social and political evils in late 19th and early 20th century America.

16. What did the Clayton Anti-Trust Act do?
1) Outlawed price fixing;
2) Exempted unions from the Sherman Anti-Trust Act

17. Name 5 ways the Progressives tried to make government more democratic at the state level?

18. Referendum
Initiative
Recall
Secret Ballot
Primary Elections

19. By what process may citizens vote on laws passed by a legislative body?
Referendum

20. What process permits citizens to propose laws to their state or local governments?
Initiative

21. By what process may citizens vote to remove government officials from office before they have finished their terms?
Recall election

22. What does one call an election in which voters nominate a political party’s candidates for office?
Primary election

23. In what two ways did Progressives try to make local governments less corrupt, more efficient, and more responsive to the people?

24. Commission form of city gov’t.
Council/manager form of city gov’t.

25. How does the council/manager form of city gov’t. work?
Voters elect a city council
City council hires a preofessional manager to serve as the city’s administrator