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Chapter 5, Section 1: The Roots of Progressivism! Read Section 1 on pages 326-335 and answer the following!
1. What is the Progressive Era? What did the Progressives general believe?!

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2. Who are the muckrakers? Who was Jacob Riis and Ida Tarbell?!

3. What were the goals of efciency progressives?!

4. What reform was introduced by Robert La Follette? !

5. What three reforms were introduced in many states? Explain each.!

6. What was the 17th Amendment? Why was there a need for it?!

7. How did the Progressive movement inuence the womens movement?!

8. Who is Alice Paul? What tactics did she use?!

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9. What is the 19th Amendment? When was it ratied?!

10. Why did the amount of child laborers decline by the early 1900s?!

11. What happened at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory? How did New York City respond?!

12. Why did many Progressives dislike alcohol? What movement grew out of that idea?!

13. What is prohibition? Which groups led to movement?!

14. What was the Sherman Antitrust Act and the Interstate Commerce Commission?!

15. What is socialism? Who ran in 1912 as the American Socialist Party candidate?