Questions and Answers 2025-2026
Updated.
Rise of Professions - Answer Young, educated men and women
experts, smart jobs
new middle class
Six characteristics of Progressivism - Answer - Acted out of concern of industrialization
effects & conditions
- Believe in progress & peoples' ability to recognize & solve problems
- Believed they had right to intervene in people’s lives (coercion)
- Turned to gov. @ all levels to effect reforms
- Evangelical protestantism and natural & social sciences inform it
- Very popular & persuasive; mass base; drew support from across society
American Medical Association (AMA) - Answer The national professional membership
organization for physicians
Distributes scientific information to its members and the public, informs members of legislation
related to health and medicine, and represents the medical profession's interests in national
legislative matters
Maintains and publishes the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) coding system
Social Justice Movement - Answer better conditions
More child labor regulations
pressured government for: parks, daycares, and schools
18th Amendment - Answer Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic
beverages
Mann Act - Answer almost every state banned brothels
, Congressional Union - Answer Alice Paul and Lucy Burns
More military tactics
Interrupt meetings
National focus
19th century - Answer = natural right to vote
20th century - Answer = more close to moral issues, so better suited to vote
19th Amendment (1920) - Answer No discrimination on sex to vote
Gave women the right to vote
Reform in the Cities - Answer Urban planning
National Municipal League
Utility regulations, clean political machines, civil service
Hired engineers
Reform in the states - Answer Power in hands of people
Referendum
Initiative
Recall
Referendum - Answer Voters pass or reject laws
Initiative - Answer Voters can propose new laws
Recall - Answer Voters can recall elected officials mid term
17th Amendment - Answer Direct election of senators
Teddy Roosevelt - Answer Progressive president