7. The Progressive Era was a period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States that spanned the 1890s to the 1920s.
8. The most important political leaders during this time were Theodore Roosevelt, Robert M. La Follette Sr., Charles Evans Hughes, and Herbert Hoover. Some Democratic leaders included William Jennings Bryan, Woodrow Wilson, and Al Smith.
9. The main objectives of the Progressive movement were addressing problems caused by industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and political corruption.
10. The growing middle class’s dissatisfaction with the corruption and inefficiency of politics as usual, and the failure to deal with increasingly important urban and industrial problems, Progressive movement starting in the 1890s.
11. Jacob Riis was very concerned about the impact of poverty on the young, which was a persistent theme both in his writing and lectures. For the sequel to How the Other Half Lives, Riis focused on the plight of immigrant children and efforts to aid them.
12. A direct primary, which is now used in some form in all U.S. states, functions as a preliminary election whereby voters decide their party’s candidates. In an indirect primary, voters elect delegates who choose the party’s candidates at a nominating convention.
13. As the 19th century ended, Wisconsin was developing into an increasingly industrial and technological society. To a people born and raised mostly on farms, the explosive growth of cities, the rising importance of large-scale industry, and the overall speed of daily life brought uncertainty and confusion.
14. After a storm inundated the city in 1837, a local carpenter, Joseph Ehlinger, suggested rebuilding the destroyed customshouse on four-foot pilings to raise it above the flood level. After that time, many structures in Galveston, residences included, were built on stilts.
15. Local governments led by city managers are 57% less likely to have corruption, according to a study published in the last issue of Public Administration Review (July/August). The study, by Kimberly L. Nelson and Whitney B. Afonso of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, proclaims to be the first exhaustive study of corruption and connections to different forms of government.
16. The Progressive Era was a period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States that spanned the 1890s to the 1920s.
17. Should the need arise to replace the suction fittings or the pump, be sure that the .... your spa. Do not remove spa cabinet panels and attempt to make repairs.
18. The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) is a union of wage workers which was formed in Chicago in 1905 by militant unionists and their supporters due to anger over the conservatism, philosophy, and craft-based structure of the American Federation of Labor (AFL).
19. It was in this spirit that muckrakers, who were influential journalists,... ... Muckrakers condemned the exploitation of child labor and white slave traffic in women.
20. Robert M. La Follette, in full Robert Marion La Follette, (born June 14, 1855, Primrose, Wisconsin, U.S.—died June 18, 1925, Washington, D.C.), U.S. leader of the Progressive movement who, as governor of Wisconsin (1901–06) and U.S. senator (1906–25), was noted for his support of reform legislation.
21. The movement was fed by massive dissatisfaction caused by the dispossession of unlettered agricultural workers previously peasants in some ways protected by feudal lords and their recruitment as industrial workers paid a pittance to produce and live in crowded and unhealthy conditions.
22. Eugene V. Debs, Victor L. Berger
23. Many men and women, inspired in part by evangelical Christianity, undertook a host of "moral reform" movements intended to encourage self-control and cure such social ills as poverty, crime, and insanity. Temperance was one such reform movement.
24. Carrie Amelia Nation (forename sometimes spelled Carry; November 25, 1846 – June 9, 1911) was an American woman who was a radical member of the temperance movement, which opposed alcohol before the advent of Prohibition.
25. the right to vote in political elections.
26. Traditional lobbying and petitioning were a mainstay members, but these activities were supplemented by other more public actions–including parades, pageants, street speaking.
27. Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902)
28. Women needed the vote, she concluded, so that they could make certain.
29. Was there ever a time when your voice wasn't being heard? ... African American women attended political conventions at their local ... Black women had to march separately from white women in suffrage parades.
30. Jane Addams (1860–1935) was a Progressive reformer and the most prominent advocate for the settlement house movement, which was dedicated to improving social conditions for immigrants other residents of urban slums.
31.What were the goals of the temperance movement?
