USH PPT. Unit 2 Review

1. Unit 2: Test Review

2. WRITE DOWN WHAT YOU READ
THIS WILL HELP YOU ON THE TEST
WRITE DOWN WHAT YOU READ
DON’T BE LAZY
WRITE DOWN WHAT YOU READ

3. Populists and Progressives
Populists
◦ Grassroots political movement started by southern and western farmers around the US to fight banks,
railroads, and large corporations and other “elites”
Progressives
◦ Progressivism is the term applied to a variety of responses to the economic and social problems rapid
industrialization introduced to America. Progressivism began as a social movement and grew into a
political movement. The early progressives rejected Social Darwinism.
BOTH SHARED A GOAL FOR GREATER CONTROL OF THE GOVERNMENT BY THE PEOPLE

4. Hawaii
Annexed
Protectorate of the United States after its
monarchy was overthrown
1899
Naval Base
Colonialism  Agriculture
Sphere of Influence

5. Jane Addams
Hull House
Archetype for modern welfare center
Helped assimilate immigrants

6. Roosevelt
Rough Riders—San Juan Hill 1898 Spanish
American War
President– Big Stick Diplomacy
Corollary to Monroe Doctrine
◦ 1904
◦ Panama Canal

7. Panama Canal
Started in 1904
Had public support because of the long sea-faring journey
around South America
Ended 1914
48 miles long

8. Initiative, Referendum, Recall
Initiative: Voters campaign to get something on the ballot
Referendum: Voters democratically vote for a law
Recall: Voters vote to remove someone from office
This is all shows the expansion of citizens’ direct participation in the democratic process
In the Early 1900s the Progressive Era reformers sought to increase public participation in the
government by supporting the direct election of US senators

9. Political Machines– Robber
Barons + Government
Manipulate voter turnout
Advocated the use of poll taxes
Corruption
Nepotism
Spoils system
During the Gilded Age there was notable increased support for—
the growth of big business
The Bosses of urban political machines often accepted bribes in
return for favors

10. Upton Sinclair: The Jungle
Meat Packing Industry Expose
Muckraker
1910
Government regulations began to require the inspection of
foods after this novel gained influence
During the Progressive Era, public demands for direct
consumer protection resulted in the Pure Food and Drug Act

11. Spanish
American War
1898
Vacuum exacerbated by Cuban
independence
US Monroe Doctrine
USS Maine Sinks in Havana—Major
Turning Point in the War and
Americans enter the war happens in
1898
The Acquisition of new territories
allowed for the expansion of US
commercial trade

12. W.E.B. DuBois
African American
Niagara Movement
Muckraker
Helped Found the NAACP
◦ The NAACP was organized to help secure the full
legal equality for minority citizens

13. 19th Amendment–
Progressive Era Amendment
Women's Suffrage
Women get right to vote
It gave women a greater opportunity to influence government
This was the achieved goal that was set during a women’s
conference in Seneca Falls in 1848.

14. Progressive Amendments
16th – Income Tax
17th – Direct Election of Senators
18th – Prohibition of Alcohol
19th– Women’s Suffrage

15. Dawes Act
1887
President broke up land of Native Americans and
allotted it for sale
Attempted to assimilate Native Americans into
mainstream American culture

16. Ida B. Wells
Muckraker
African American Journalist
Anti-Lynching Advocate

17. Problems with
Urbanization
Muckrakers—against the
unintended side-effects of the
Gilded Age and Second Industrial
Revolution
The Octopus (Frank Norris), How
the Other Half Lives (Jacob Riis) and
Jungle (Upton Sinclair)
Showed the problems of rapid
industrialization and how this
affected both social urban issues
and economic disparity issues