The Americans Chapter 17 Assessment Answers

1. The progressive movement aimed to restore economic opportunities and correct injustices in American life.

2. A muckraker was a journalist or a writer that writes or shows the corrupt side of business or empire and public life in mass circulation magazines for the people to read.

3. Suffrage is the right to vote. Many women reformers strived to make the right for women to vote legal and right.

4. Susan B. Anthony was one of the women reformers who tried to get equal rights for women. She led the reformers for the suffrage or women.

5. Theodore Roosevelt was elected in 1900 to become president of the United States. Roosevelt had a tendency to persuade and influence the media to go his way in the government issues. Roosevelt came up with the Square Deal which  businesses were weakened.

6. The NAACP stood for the National Association for the Colored People. It had 6,000 members and aimed for equality regardless of skin color.

7. Gifford Pinchot was the head of the US Forest Service under President Roosevelt. Pinchot believed that the wilderness can be scientifically managed to yield public enjoyment while allowing private development.

8. Woodrow Wilson was a part of the 1912 presidential election. Wilson’s name was put forward by the Democrats.

9. The Clayton Antitrust Act sought to strengthen the Sherman Antitrust Act, which the Clayton Act prohibited corporations from acquiring the stock of another.

10. The Federal Reserve was created by Woodrow Wilson and today is still used as the basis of the nation’s banking system in America.

1. The four goals of the progressive movement were protecting the social welfare, promoting moral improvement, creating economic reform, and fostering efficiency.

2. New state laws came up as workers began to ask for better working conditions. A new law that was brought into play was the new 10 hour workday for men, which allowed them to get some rest. Also the businesses were forced to ban child labor.

3. The government changed drastically during this Progressive Movement. The Seventeenth Amendment was created, which created direct election of senators. This government reform was to make Americans more of a voice in the society.

4. Uneducated women could work many jobs in or outside of the city. Women could raise livestock, harvest crops, working in the garment trade area, and being maids.

5. Two women reform associations were NACW and NAWSA. NACW stands for National Association of Colored Women. This group strived for education for the African American women and wanted equal rights as men. The National American Women Suffrage Association strived for voting rights for women. They faced serious opposition to receive equal voting rights.

6. Upton Sinclair revealed the labor of men and women for profits. Sinclair showed how unsanitary it was for the workers to work in these dangerous situations in the meat packing industry. President Roosevelt and the American Public were disgusted by the gruesome details of Sinclair’s experience. Congress allowed for better working conditions and a shutdown of the meat industry with unsafe and unsanitary food.

7. Roosevelt created the Square Deal, which began to destroy trusts. Roosevelt curbed actions of the trusts that hurt the public interest.

8. Taft began to make new reforms during the progressive movement, rather than improve on Roosevelt’s own reforms that would help the people. Taft was a cautious president who thought before he acted.

9. The Republican party split during Taft’s administration because there were differences in the party. The Conservatives didn’t want change in America, and the progressives did want change in the country.

10. The Clayton Antitrust Act helped the labor workers by making the big businesses much weaker. The businesses were prohibited to acquire stock of another corporation.

11. Woodrow Wilson opposed federal antilynching legislation. Wilson opposed this because he believed that crimes would fall under state jurisdiction. He also opposed civil rights for African Americans. He went against African equal rights.

1. Square Deal- Equal Opportunities  for all workers to succeed or prosper in America

Both- Limit Unfair Business Practices and create competiton

New Freedom- Limits the monopoly of big businesses

2. Social trends during the progressive movement skyrocketed, because many women fought for equal voting rights. The Eighteenth Amendment bans alcoholic beverages for the people. The Economic trends were the Square Deal, a new tax system, and Theodore Roosevelt became a trustbuster. Finally political trends were elections being reformed and citizens given the greater voice with the Seventeenth Amendment.

1. A

2. F.

3. A