Amendments
The amendment that gave women the constitutional right to vote.
What is the Nineteenth Amendment?
Famous for his rimmed spectacles, bushy mustache, and his love for sports, and known as a "Trust-Buster"
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This reform allowed citizens to propose laws without government interference.
What is the initiative?
These types of laws prevented children from working in dangerous conditions or overworked/underpaid.
What are child labor laws?
This policy was initiated by Roosevelt and promised equality for all.
What is the Square Deal?
The amendment that established Prohibition by banning the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol.
What is the Eighteenth Amendment?
This President was on the rise as a Progressive leader, but was shot down during his second term.
Who was William McKinley?
This type of election allowed citizens to vote directly for their candidates of choice.
What is the Direct Primary?
These word means to fight against or to limit alcohol.
What is temperance?
This type of media coverage was sensational and tried to attract its readers with exaggerated headlines.
What is Yellow Journalism?
This was the amendment that allowed citizens to vote directly for their Senators.
What is the 17th Amendment?
This President was rather hefty and never quite wanted to be President, always feeling that he was "stuck".
Who was William Howard Taft?
This type of reform required candidates to take an exam before being hired for a job, as opposed to patronage.
What is Civil Service?
After seeing the state of the food industry, Pres. Roosevelt passed this law, outlawing the sale of spoiled or mislabeled food and drugs.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
This term means to refuse a service or product in protest.
What is a boycott?
This amendment replaced the 18th Amendment and Prohibition.
What is the 21st Amendment?
Ran for President three times, but never won for his ticket, the Populist Party.
Who was William Jennings Bryan?
This type of ballot allowed voters to cast their vote without pressure from party bosses.
What is the secret ballot?
Roosevelt was a huge fan of this, using it to create National Parks and protect resources.
What is conservation?
African Americans and Women were denied this right for many years.
What is suffrage?
This amendment created the progressive income tax.
What is the 16th Amendment?
In a three-way race, this President managed to win the 1912 election.
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
Before the reforms, political candidates used this system to reward their supporters.
What is patronage?
This group lead the charge against alcohol, in addition to Christian values and equal rights for women.
Who is the Women's Christian Temperance Union?
This was a movement aimed at fixing social, political, and economic problems
What is Progressivism?