Progressive Movement Review

What was the Progressive Movement?

• A focus on a safer and cleaner life

• A focus on scientific solutions to mathematical equations

• A focus on amending the state constitution

• A focus on artistic expression among Native Tribes

What is suffrage?

• The right to protest your government

• The right to vote

• The right to bear arms

• The right to free speech

Which amendment allowed women to vote?

• 14th

• 15th

• 19th

• 13th

What formed as a result of hazardous conditions?

• Labor Unions

• Teacher Unions

• Suffrage Unions

• Government Unions

Many labor unions bargained with managers for:

• freedom of education

• more job positions nationwide

• more pay and safer conditions

• public transportation

What caused the Scofield Mine Disaster?

• Young children were goofing around and hit a live wire

• It is unknown how this explosion started

• Build up of papers too close to a fire

• Build up of coal dust caught fire and exploded

What is an example of fighting for conservation laws:

• Equal pay

• National forests

• the right to vote

• government assistance

What was created to prevent water shortages?

• limiting water use to twice a week

• educational posters

• dams

• irrigation ditches

Why would a mining company hire young children to work for them?

• Children were small enough to fit in the mine

• There were no schools around such a small town

• Children wanted to make their own money

• Children sought adventure and found it in the mines

How many people were killed at the Scofield Mine Explosion?

• 500

• 20

• 200-250

• 100-150