OC - USH - Progressive Movement Key Terms

Who gave the Atlanta Compromise speech in 1895?

• Booker T. Washington

• W. E. B. Du Bois

• Florence Kelley

• Woodrow Wilson

What is the direct primary?

• A proposed law placed on the ballot by public petition

• A political reform that allowed for the nomination of candidates through a direct vote by party members

• A process that allows voters to counteract legislation by putting an existing law on the ballot

• To remove a public official from office by virtue of a petition and vote process

Who were the muckrakers?

• Investigative journalists and authors who wrote about social ills and urged the public to take action

• Civil rights activists who fought for equality for African Americans

• Progressive Republicans who were unhappy with Taft

• Radical Progressive group that desired an industrial union model of labor organization

What does NAACP stand for?

• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

• National Association for the Advancement of Civil Rights

• National Association for the Advancement of African Americans

• National Association for the Advancement of Progressive Causes

What was Woodrow Wilson's campaign platform for the 1912 election?

• A small federal government to protect public interests from the evils associated with bad businesses

• A powerful federal government to protect the American public

• Immediate political, social, and economic equality for African Americans

• Legal, scientific, managerial, and institutional solutions to the ills of urbanization, industrialization, and corruption

What was Theodore Roosevelt's campaign platform for the 1912 election?

• A small federal government to protect public interests from the evils associated with bad businesses

• A powerful federal government to protect the American public

• Immediate political, social, and economic equality for African Americans

• Legal, scientific, managerial, and institutional solutions to the ills of urbanization, industrialization, and corruption

Who led the Niagara Movement?

• Booker T. Washington

• W. E. B. Du Bois

• Florence Kelley

• Woodrow Wilson

Which political party was started by Roosevelt and other Progressive Republicans?

• Democratic Party

• Republican Party

• Progressive Party

• Industrial Workers of the World

What was the main focus of the Progressive movement?

• Legal, scientific, managerial, and institutional solutions to the ills of urbanization, industrialization, and corruption

• Immediate political, social, and economic equality for African Americans

• A small federal government to protect public interests from the evils associated with bad businesses

• A powerful federal government to protect the American public

What is the recall?

• A proposed law placed on the ballot by public petition

• A political reform that allowed for the nomination of candidates through a direct vote by party members

• To remove a public official from office by virtue of a petition and vote process

• A process that allows voters to counteract legislation by putting an existing law on the ballot