What were the byproducts of industrialization that led to progressivism?
Immigration
Organization
Rise of corporate power
______ was the founder of pragmatism, considered to be the first truly American philosophy.
William James
What were the electoral reforms brought about by progressives?
Initiative
Referendum
Recall
17 million immigrants arrived in the US between 1900 and 1917. Most came from _____
southern and eastern Europe.
The most crucial problem facing African Americans during the post-reconstruction and progressive eras was ______.
lynching
The _____________ was an organization founded in 1909 by WEB Dubois and others. It called for vigorous activism to achieve full equality for African-Americans.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Which region of the United States was the leader in granting women's suffrage in the late 1800s and early 1900s?
West
The _____ was founded in 1913 by Alice Paul. Rather than trying to achieve women's suffrage on a state-by-state basis, this organization worked for a national law or constitutional amendment granting a women's suffrage.
Congressional Union
______ was a feminist who fought for women's rights to information about and access to birth control. She founded the Birth Control Journal in 1918.
Margaret Sanger
The Socialist Party of American gained its biggest electoral success during the Progressive Era. Its leader, ______, ran for president five times between 1900 and 1920, gaining over 900,000 votes in 1912.
Eugene Debbs
What was the President Theodore Roosevelt's approach to solving labor unrest?
He stayed neutral and encouraged both sides to use arbitration.
The BIGGEST SUCCESS of the Roosevelt Administration's "trust-busting" came with the court-ordered breakup of _____. Muckraker Ida Tarbell had written a book and articles that exposed the abuses of this trust.
Standard Oil Company
Theodore Roosevelt supported the passage of the ______ (1906), which outlawed the sale of adulterated foods or drugs and required accurate ingredient labels.
Pure Food and Drug Act
The one blot on President Theodore Roosevelt's race relations was _______
the Brownsville Incident.
Founded by John Muir, the _____ became the nation's premier environmental group.
Sierra Club
One of Theodore' Roosevelt's key appointments was that of ______ to head the US Forest Service. He stressed conservation, not preservation.
Gifford Pinchot
The _______ (1902) designated money from public-land sales to finance water management in the arid West, setup the Reclamation Service, and constructed dams and irrigation projects throughout the West.
National Reclamation Act
The _____ Amendment established the federal income tax.
Sixteenth
The _____ Amendment established women's suffrage. It was the last major reform of the Progressive Era.
Nineteenth
In what area was national progressivism a failure?
Race relations