1. it was a period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States of America that spanned the 1890s to the 1920s. ... The movement primarily targeted political machines and their bosses.
2. The Social Gospel movement emerged among Protestant Christians to improve the economic, moral and social conditions of the urban working class. It was a social movement within Protestantism that applied Christian ethics to social problems, especially issues of social justice such as economic inequality, poverty, alcoholism ETC
3. The temperance movement is a social movement against the consumption of alcoholic beverages.
4. Muckrakers were journalists and novelists of the Progressive Era who sought to expose corruption in big business and government.
5. a disputant who advocates reform. crusader, meliorist, reformer, reformist. controversialist, disputant, eristic - a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy. in other words, A reform movement is a type of social movement that aims to bring a social or political system closer to the community's ideal.
6. dealt with an increase in direct democracy or the immediate interaction of citizens with the government. 1. Robert La Follette's proposal that political party members vote in a primary election. 2. Referendum 3. Initiative 4. lowering of taxes 5. two additional amendments.
7. National Woman Suffrage Association led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, women gained the vote through the 19th amendment. temperance movement sought to ban the production of sale of alcoholic beverages and succeeded with the passing of the 18th amendment.
8. Federal Reserve Act and granted women the vote. Theodore Roosevelt did much to control trusts and monopolies, regulate railroads, legislate improvements for consumers, and established the National Park System.
9. the progressive goals of democracy, social welfare, and economic reform. Two of the major progressive achievements under President Taft were constitutional amendments. The Sixteenth Amendment was passed in 1909 and ratified in 1913.
10. The Progressive Party was a third party in the United States formed in 1912 by former president Theodore Roosevelt after he lost the presidential nomination of the Republican Party to his former protégé and conservative rival, incumbent president William Howard Taft.
11. Wilson argued vehemently for the League of Nations to protect the world from another horrific war. Wilson believed in free trade and a nation's right to self-governance. Wilson received a Nobel Prize for his efforts to promote peace. Wilson created the Federal Reserve and the Federal Trade Commission.
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