Homework Check 6.1

Match the following

• direct

• To counter Senate corruption, progressives called for the ____________________ election of senators by all state voters rather than election by state legislatures.

• women

• On August 26, 1920, after three fourths of the states had voted to ratify it, the Nineteenth Amendment guaranteeing ____________________ the right to vote went into effect.

• science

• Progressives supported proposals to reform city government, including a commission plan that put city departments under an ____________________ commissioner's control.

• expert

• Progressives joined union leaders to pressure states for workers' ____________________ laws that would establish insurance funds for injured workers.

• compensation

• One reason progressives believed people could improve society was because they had a strong faith in _____________________ and technology.

Progressivism was partly a reaction against  _____________________  economics, which emphasized an unregulated free market.

• Social Darwinist

• free trade

• conservative

• laissez-faire

Alice Paul was arrested after picketing the White House, an example of her attempts to

• use violence to force suffrage.

• start a women-only political party.

• use protests to force suffrage.

• support Woodrow WIlson.

What did progressives think needed to play a more active role involving society's problems?

• big business

• the churches

• social welfare organizations

• the government

Wisconsin became a model of political reform under the leadership of

• Robert M. La Follette.

• Jacob Riis.

• Frederick W. Taylor.

• Charles Edward Russell.

Which progressive government reform allowed voters to demand a special election to remove an elected official from office before his or her term had expired?

• recall

• initiative

• direct primary

• referendum