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American History II Unit 3A The Progressive Movement

Factual content from the 1st half of Unit 3: Progressive Movement

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Which event drew attention to the issue of unsafe working conditions in sweatshops during the early 1900s?Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
What were the journalists who supported progressive causes called?muckrakers
What was exposed by Jacob Riis's photographs and stories in "How the Other Half Lives"?urban poverty (in NYC tenements)
What issue did Upton Sinclair draw attention to in "The Jungle"?meatpacking industry/sanitation
Which progressive movement emphasized providing charity to the poor?Social Gospel
The establishment of Hull House is an example of the Social Gospel movement promoted by which individual?Jane Addams
Which amendment resulted in the direct election of U.S. Senators?Seventeenth Amendment
What progressive reforms were used to reduce the power of political machines?primary elections, direct election of U.S. Senators, secret ballot
Which new forms of city government were developed during the progressive movement of the early 1900s?council-manager and commission forms
List an economic reform supported by the Progressive movementregulating big business, lower tariffs, anti-trust laws ("trustbusting")
Which progressive cause became the law under the Eighteenth Amendment was ratified?prohibition of alcohol (temperance)


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Grimsley High School
NC

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