Progressive Reform 1
Explain how a primary changed how people voted?
Voters select their party candidate
What is an initiative?
Voters can propose bills to the legislature
What is a referendum?
Voters can vote on bills directly.
What is a recall?
a process by which people may vote to remove an elected official from office.
What time period was the gilded age?
1870's-1890's
Reformers in the Gilded Age criticized the spoils system because it
spread corruption.
Members of the temperance movement wanted to outlaw
alcohol
Who fought prejudice against Jewish people?
the Anti-Defamation League
Which African American journalist campaigned against mob violence aimed at African Americans?
Ida B. Wells
Who was neither a government official or business leader who preached patience with achieving equality for African Americans?
Booker T. Washington
Theodore Roosevelt’s nickname for reform journalists and novelists was
“muckrakers.”
What were 3 examples of new opportunities for women in the late 1800s?
Women formed organizations that promoted reforms.
Women entered the new profession of social work.
Women became lawyers and doctors.
Mexican Americans formed self-help groups known as
mutualistas.
describes how women won the right to vote?
About sixty years of effort by suffragists secured approval of the Nineteenth Amendment
Both the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 and the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890
were early government attempts to regulate businesses.
An action by Congress that sought to tame business excesses was the
passage of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
Why were most national parks located in the West?
The West had more open space and less urbanization.
What event contributed to a spike in lynching after 1893?
The nation went through an economic depression.
DAILY DOUBLE
Which president sided with what workers when they went on strike for better pay and shorter workdays?
A person who works to break up powerful combinations of businesses
Trustbusters
Who provided readers with shocking image's and stories of slum life in the tenements?
Jacob Riis
What did this President promise to voters they should receive in America, where no matter who they are they have the same opportunity to succeed.
a square deal
How did Woodrow Wilson win the presidential election?
Taft and Roosevelt split their party vote
What is the method of taxation that taxes people at different rates depending on income?
Graduated income tax
Which 4 states did women gain the right to vote in the 1800's?
Wyoming, Utah, Colorado and Idaho