Terms to Know

1. Terms to Know • Questions? *Square deal- Roosevelt’s domestic (public) policy, pushed for equality *Roosevelt Corollary- U.S. had the right to intervene in Latin America to prevent “wrong doing” *Yellow journalism- sensationalized to sell stories (make money) *Muckrakers- report on corruption or unsafe conditions *Spanish-American War: made the U.S. a colonial power

2. Immigration and Migration 1. What were the primary reasons people emigrated from Europe to America? • Famine • War • Poverty • High Rent and High Cost of Living, • freedom of religion

3. Immigration and Migration 2. What were the primary reasons why people emigrated from Asia to America? • Over Population • War • Unemployment • freedom from government

4. Immigration and Migration 3. What were the primary reasons why people migrated West in America? • Gold Rush • Homestead Act • Low Cost of Living

5. Immigration and Migration 4. Why did African Americans move out of South Carolina? Where did they go? • Better jobs/working conditions • Jim Crow Laws/Racism • They went to the Midwest and mainly up North (Great Migration)

6. The Progressive Era 5. What was the Progressive Movement? What first started this movement? • The Progressive movement came about from the book How the Other Half Lived by Jacob Riis. • Theodore Roosevelt and his Square Deal also started this movement. • This movement was directed at improving conditions and government in the United States. Ultimately, the goal was to make the government more responsible to the citizens of the United States.

7. The Progressive Era 6. What problems in America did the Progressive Movement address (in the workplace, at home, politically, socially)? • The workplace: working conditions for ordinary citizens were terrible. The conditions were dangerous, unsanitary, and workers had to work long hours. • At home: women were asking for better social, economic, and political treatment. They wanted gender equality above all. • Politically: Women could not vote or hold many offices, corruption in government, and monopolies • Socially: There was a great division between the rich and the poor, and between blacks and whites.

8. The Progressive Era 7. What is child labor? How young were some of the children that we talked about who worked in the mills? What were some of the dangers the children faced? • Child labor consisted of hiring young children from (4-14), paying them low wages, and subjecting them to dangerous working conditions. • Children faced many dangers working in the mills from being crushed to having limbs amputated by the loom.

9. The Progressive Era 8. Why is the Progressive Era also called the Era of the Amendments? Make sure you explain what Amendments were passed and how each Amendment affected the United States (socially, politically) • The 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th Amendment were passed during the Progressive Era. • 16th – income tax, 17th – Direct election of Senators, 18th – Prohibition, 19th – women’s suffrage

10. The Progressive Era 9. What is Prohibition? Why does the Progressive Movement cause politicians to pass laws in favor of Prohibition? (How is alcohol seen from the eyes of a Progressive Era politician?) How does the temperance movement fit into Prohibition? • Prohibition is the banning of sale, manufacturing, and transportation of alcohol. • Many of these politicians that wanted to ban alcohol responded to religious pressure to ban selling spirits. • The temperance movement is the early form of prohibition. The temperance movement wanted to reduce society’s dependence on morally corrupting influences like alcohol and smoking

11. The Progressive Era 10. Yellow journalism= sensationalizing to sell the story • Pulitzer and Hearst

12. The Progressive Era 11. Lynching= the execution of a person outside of the law by a mob Example: African Americans and the KKK

13. The Progressive Era 12. What is the Pure Food and Drug Act? • Legislation enacted by Roosevelt where all food was subject for inspection and mislabeling food/tampering/contaminating food was subject to imprisonment and a fine. It ensured that food produced in the US was fit to be consumed.

14. The Progressive Era 13. Who is Theodore Roosevelt? Why is he considered the first Progressive President? How does the Roosevelt Corollary change American policy towards European nations? • TR was the first Progressive president because he immediately began to change the US government to make it more responsible and accountable to the United States citizens. • The Roosevelt Corollary was an idea that the Western Hemisphere was controlled by the United States and any attempt by Europeans to colonize or become involved in the affairs of Latin or South American countries would be met by military force of the United States.

15. The Progressive Era 14. Name two of South Carolina’s governors that we talked about in the Progressive Era graphic organizer. • Manning – raised minimum wage, build highways, improved school system. • Cooper- public education (collected taxes and passed legislation for a longer school year) • Blease- not progressive