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AMH 2020 Exam 2Why did educated women play a prominent role in the American settlement house movement? - correct
answer ✔✔Addams Part of a new generation of college-educated, independent women that historians
have called "New Women," she sought to put her education to greater use. In 1889, Addams and Starr
founded Hull House in Chicago's poor, industrial west side, the first settlement house in the United
States. The goal was for educated women to share all kinds of knowledge, from basic skills to arts and
literature with poorer people in the neighborhood. They also envisioned women living in the community
center, among the people they served. Gave college educated women eager to use their knowledge a
place to put their talents to work in the service of society and 2 champion progressive reform
What was the Supreme Court's decision in the 1908 Mueller v. Oregon case, and why was it significant? -
correct answer ✔✔upheld an Oregon law limiting the workday for female wage earners to ten hours.
The case established a precedent in 1908 to expand the reach of state activity into the realm of
protective labor legislation. Ruling set a precedent that separated the well-being of women workers from
men by arguing that women's reproductive role justified special treatment. The case established a
precedent in 1908 to expand the reach of state activity into the realm of protective labor legislation.
What kinds of reforms did the early 20th-century progressive governors Robert M. La Follette and Hiram
Johnson of California enact? - correct answer ✔✔La Follette Lowered Railroad rates, raised railroad
taxes, improved education, preached conservation, establish factory regulation and Worker's
Compensation, instituted the first direct primary in the country, and inaugurated the first state income
tax. Hiram Johnson Kicked the southern pacific railroad out of politics, returned government to the
people, adopted the direct primary, supported initiative referendum and recall, strengthen the states
railroad commission, and enacted and employers liability law
How did President Theodore Roosevelt's actions in the Northern Securities case and the anthracite coal
strike mark a departure from previous administrations? - correct answer ✔✔Roosevelt ordered attorney
general to begin a secret antitrust investigation of the Northern securities company which monopolized
railroad traffic in the Northwest. The Supreme Court called for dissolution of Northern Securities.
Roosevelt threaten to seize the minds and run them with federal troops until the minors won a reduction
in hours and wage increase. Roosevelt was willing to use the government as a weapon to curb business
excesses and demonstrated the government intended to act as a countervailing force to the power of big
corporations.
In the 1912 presidential election, what were the differences between Progressive Party nominee
Theodore Roosevelt's New Nationalism and Democratic nominee Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom? -
,correct answer ✔✔New Nationalism: Reflected his commitment to federal planning and regulation,
wanted to use the federal government to act as a steward of the people to regulate giant corporations,
went further, promising federal regulation of business and social welfare legislation. New Freedom:
Reflected his belief in limited government and states rights, promised to use antitrust legislation to
eliminate big corporations and to improve opportunities for small businesses and farmers, pledging to
end monopoly, restore free competition, and the right of labor to bargain collectively for its welfare.
Jane Addams - correct answer ✔✔Founder of Hull House, which ultimately leads to the creation of a
new profession - Social Worker. A progressive social reformer and activist, Jane Addams was on the
frontline of the settlement house movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. she was
instrumental in successfully lobbying for the establishment of a juvenile court system, better urban
sanitation and factory laws, protective labor legislation for women, and more playgrounds and
kindergartens throughout Chicago. In 1907, Addams was a founding member of the National Child Labor
Committee, which played a significant role in passage of a Federal Child Labor Law in 1916. Addams led
an initiative to establish a School of Social Work at the University of Chicago, creating institutional
support for a new profession for women. Addams also served as president of the National Conference of
Charities and Corrections from 1909-1915, the first woman to hold that title, and became active in the
women's suffrage movement as an officer in the National American Women's Suffrage Association and
pro-suffrage columnist. She was also among the founders of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
Hull House - correct answer ✔✔the Hull House team provided an array of vital services to thousands of
people each week: they established a kindergarten and day-care for working mothers; provided job
training; English language, cooking, and acculturation classes for immigrants; established a job-
placement bureau, community center, gymnasium, and art gallery.
Jacob Riis - correct answer ✔✔New York City crime reporter, familiar with the evils of the city prompted
him to write How the Other Half Lives, Riis relied on photos not just words to motivate people to get
involved with reform.
Margaret Sanger - correct answer ✔✔Crusading pioneer for contraception during the progressive era.
Promoted birth control movement : In 1915 advocates hoped that contraception would alter social and
political power relationships by having fewer babies the working class could constrict the size of the
workforce thus making possible higher wages and at the same time refuse to provide soldiers for the
worlds armies. Used paper to promote BC which was illegal, and opened first BC clinic in nation. Was
arrested but got out. Courted conservative American medical Association and linked birth control with
eugenics movement which advocated limiting the reproduction among undesirable groups, she made
contraception a respectable subject for discussion.
,Mueller v. Oregon - correct answer ✔✔Do US Supreme Court reversed its previous ruling's and upheld in
Oregon law that limited to 10 the number of hours women could work in a day.
Booker T. Washington - correct answer ✔✔was born a slave in Virginia in 1856. Washington and his
family worked in the salt and coal mines of West Virginia after the Civil War. Ambitious and flushed with
the postwar enthusiasm for advancement that gripped freedmen, he worked his way through Hampton
Normal and Agricultural Institute, the premier black educational institution in the South at the time. In
1881, he founded the Tuskegee Institute for black students in rural Alabama. By learning industrial skills,
Washington maintained, black people could secure self-respect and economic independence. Tuskegee
emphasized vocational skills training over the liberal arts. At an Atlanta exposition in 1895, Washington
argued that African Americans should accommodate themselves to segregation and lack of voting rights
until they could prove their economic worth to American society. In exchange, white people should help
provide black people with the education and job training they would need to gain their independence.
This position was known as the Atlanta Compromise. Despite his conciliatory public stance, Washington
secretly helped finance legal challenges to segregation and disfranchisement.
Ida B. Wells - correct answer ✔✔In 1892 Ida B. Wells, a black journalist, launched what became an
international anti-lynching movement with a series of impassioned articles after the lynching of three of
her friends in Memphis, Tennessee. The movement gradually gathered strength in the early years of the
20th century, attracting substantial support from whites in both North and South (particularly from white
women). Its goal was a federal anti-lynching law, which would allow the federal government to do what
state and local governments in the South were generally unwilling to do: punish those responsible for
lynchings. But substantial white opposition in the South stood as an exception to the general white
support for suppression of African Americans. the federal government never passed any anti-lynching
laws.
W.E.B. Du Bois - correct answer ✔✔W.E.B. DuBois, unlike Washington, had never known slavery. Born in
Massachusetts, educated at Fisk University in Nashville and at Harvard, he grew to adulthood with a
more expansive view than Washington of the goals of his race and the responsibilities of white society to
eliminate prejudice and injustice. DuBois launched an open attack on the philosophy of the Atlanta
Compromise, accusing Washington of encouraging white efforts to impose segregation and limiting the
aspirations of blacks. Rather than content themselves with education at the trade and agricultural
schools, DuBois advocated, talented blacks should accept nothing less than a full university education.
They should aspire to the professions. They should, above all, fight for the immediate restoration of their
civil rights, not simply wait for them to be granted as a reward for their patience.
Niagara Movement - correct answer ✔✔African American leaders grew increasingly impatient with this
kind of treatment, and in 1905 a group of them, led by sociologist W.E.B. DuBois, met near Niagara Falls,
New York. They met on the Canadian side of the Falls since no hotels on the American side would take
them. There they pledged action in the matters of voting, equal access to economic opportunity,
, integration, and equality before the law. Rejecting Booker T. Washington gradualist approach, the
Niagara Movement claimed for African Americans "every single right that belongs to a freeborn
American, political, civil, and social; and until we get these rights we will never cease to protest."
The Niagara Movement focused on equal rights and education of African American youth, of whom it
said, "They have the right to know, to think, to aspire." Keeping alive a program of militant action, it
spawned later civil rights movements. DuBois was its inspiration. In The Souls of Black Folk (1903) and
other works, he called eloquently for justice and equality. "By every civilized and peaceful method, we
must strive for the right which the world accords to man."
NAACP - correct answer ✔✔Race riots broke out in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1906 and in Springfield, Illinois,
in 1908, Unlike the riots of the 1960s, white mobs invaded black neighborhoods, burning, looting, and
killing. Outrage was voiced by William E. Walling, a wealthy southerner and settlement house worker;
Mary Ovington, a white anthropology student; and Oswald Garrison Villard, grandson of the famous
abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison. Along with other reformers, black and white (among them Jane
Addams and John Dewey), they issued a call for the conference that organized the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People, which swiftly became the most important civil rights
organization in the country. Created in 1910, within four years the NAACP grew to fifty branches and
more than 6,000 members. Walling headed it, and DuBois, the only African American among the top
officers, directed publicity and edited The Crisis, the publication of the organization. Despite this
organization, African Americans continued to experience a lack of voting rights, poor job opportunities,
and segregation.
Atlanta Compromise - correct answer ✔✔At an Atlanta exposition in 1895, Washington argued that
African Americans should accommodate themselves to segregation and lack of voting rights until they
could prove their economic worth to American society. In exchange, white people should help provide
black people with the education and job training they would need to gain their independence.
Constitutional Amendments - correct answer ✔✔16th Amendment - Income tax - Aimed at the wealthy
to redistribute the wealth - 1% tax on incomes all the way up to 6% on income of $100,000
17th Amendment - Direct election of senators - The people elect senators instead of state legislature
appointing them, cut down on political corruption
18th Amendment - Prohibition - Banned the production, sale, and consumption of alcohol. This
amendment caused more problems than it was worth
19th Amendment - Votes for Women - When Woodrow Wilson first entered office he was against the
vote for women. However, thanks to the war effort by women during WW I, Wilson threw his support
behind this amendment
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