progressive era apush q?

Please help! It's only because I'm SO stuck :(

Which of the following best illustrates the progressivism of Franklin Roosevelt’s administration?

A) 21st Amendment was ratified

B) Conscription Act revolutionized war preparation

C) Alice Paul’s Equal Rights Amendment was finally ratified in Congress

D) The two term tradition finally ended

E) Francis Perkins was nominated to the Presidential Cabinet

The reason why I don't think it is C is because I don't think the ERA was ever actually ratified. I know that some states have versions of it but I don't think it was ratified? Please confirm :(

Comments

  • This is a hard question, because FDR isn't usually seen as a Progressive (that's what Teddy was). But, you are right: The ERA never was ratified and actually post-dates FDR's time in the White House.

    There aren't any other good answers, so let's go through them all to find the best.

    The 21st Amendment repealed Prohibition, and while some would say that was progress, recall that the 18th Amendment (installing Prohibition) is claimed to be a Progressive measure. So, not A.

    The Conscription Act did revolutionize our war preparedness by instituting a peace-time draft; but, this was a reaction to Hitler's adventurism in Europe and Japan's militarism in the Pacific (not a Progressive measure).

    The ERA never was ratified by the States and joins a long list of constitutional amendment wannabes that met similar fates.

    The two-term tradition was ended -- but not for long, since the 22nd Amendment promptly restored it. Most consider this more a power grab by Roosevelt than a Progressive idea (and recall that Teddy had refused to run a second time, in 1908, because he considered the three years he got from William McKinley equal enough to a full term).

    That leaves E: Frances Perkins not only was nominated to serve in the President's cabinet but was confirmed and did serve as Secretary of Labor. In that position, she became the first woman to hold a cabinet post, and that certainly is consistent with the Progressive Era of a generation earlier, when women finally received the right to vote.

  • With a vested faith of their Christian concepts and interior the advantages of modernity, expertise, and technological progression, the Progressives campaigned for a chain of reforms they believed would stave off social revolution via permitting social progression for many electorate. They derived a feeling of purpose from keeping their concept of yank identity and custom against the onslaught of variations that engulfed them, from the upward thrust of massive company to the demands of prepared hard artwork and the inflow of foreign places immigrants. From Shmoop

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