Exam 18: Creating a Democratic Paradise: The Progressive Era, 1895-1915

As a result of journalist David Graham Phillips's investigative article entitled "The Treason of the Senate," President Theodore Roosevelt began to call such journalists .

What Progressive message did artist and eyewitness Victor Gatto convey in his painting Triangle Fire: March 25, 1911?

-What do these budgets reveal about lifestyles for urban laborers and professionals in the 1890s?

Why did many labor unions oppose the use of child labor in the workplace?

How did Woodrow Wilson's "New Freedom" differ from Theodore Roosevelt's "New Nationalism" program?

What did Progressives mean when they referred to "municipal housekeeping"?

How did the 1914 Ludlow Massacre that ended with the deaths of 13 women and children after Colorado state troops set fire to their camp reveal about the shortcomings of the Progressive movement?

What ultimately resulted in a decline in child labor?

What preferred method did labor leaders use to try to ensure that health and family benefits offered by employers not be eliminated during times of economic downturn?

What does the term Progressivism best describe?

What was black journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett referring to when she declared that "a Winchester rifle should have a place of honour in every black home, and it should be used for the protection which the law refuses to give"?

When Booker T. Washington stated in his 1895 "Atlanta Exposition Address" that "the opportunity [for blacks] to earn a dollar in a factory just now is worth infinitely more than the opportunity to spend a dollar in an opera house," he believed that race relations would improve if

Progressive reforms during the early twentieth century were led mostly by members of the

What did W. E. B. Du Bois mean by the "Talented Tenth"?

What did the Federal Reserve Act, Clayton Anti-Trust Act, and the Federal Trade Commission have in common?

President Wilson offset the lost revenues resulting from his cut to the tariff by relying on

How did laundry owner Curt Muller, who argued that current law deprived his workers of the right to control their own labor, react to the Supreme Court's decision in Muller v. Oregon?

-What type of emotion might saloonkeepers and their clients have felt when they saw prohibitionist Carry A. Nation in costume and with hatchet as she would march into saloons?

-What was the immediate Progressive reaction to this 1912 photograph depicting a stand-off between the state militia and striking textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts?

-How does this photograph of a carpentering class at the Hampton Institute reflect Booker T. Washington's ideas of how African Americans should achieve success?