Why Reform?
Muck & Mayhem
Power to the People
Presidential Prowess
Progresse for Whom?
Random Acts of Trivia
Final Jeopardy
100
Crowded city apartments with little light and no running water.
What are tenements? Whole families often shared one room.
100
His photographs of tenements shocked middle-class Americans.
Who is Jacob Riis? Muckrakers "raked the muck" to show the truth.
100
With this tool, citizens can propose a new law themselves by collecting signatures.
What is an initiative? Referendum: voters approve or reject a law the legislature passed.
100
TR's promise of fair treatment for business, workers, and consumers.
What is the Square Deal? In the 1902 coal strike, TR acted as a fair referee.
100
This journalist exposed lynchings that most white reformers ignored.
Who is Ida B. Wells? Progressive reform left many groups out.
100
This Nintendo plumber has a brother named Luigi.
Who is Mario?
200
The belief that hard work leads to a better life.
What is the American Dream? Progressives said the gap between the dream and real life proved reform was needed.
200
Upton Sinclair aimed at readers' hearts but hit this body part instead.
What is the stomach? Readers cared about food safety, so Congress passed the Meat Inspection Act (1906).
200
Voters use this to remove an elected official before the term ends.
What is a recall? These tools weakened political machines and bosses.
200
TR sued this railroad trust in 1902 for ending competition.
What is Northern Securities? He called it a "bad" trust. "Good" trusts like U.S. Steel were left alone.
200
Founded in 1909, this group fought segregation in court.
What is the NAACP? Its lawyer, Thurgood Marshall (eventually our first Black Supreme Court Justice), won Brown v. Board in 1954.
200
The only planet not named after a Greek or Roman god.
What is Earth?
300
The "Looking Backward" cartoon mocks this hostility toward immigrants.
What is nativism? The blockers' own shadows show immigrant roots. New Immigrants faced more of it.
300
She exposed Rockefeller's Standard Oil in a famous history of the company.
Who is Ida Tarbell? Tarbell went after monopolies. Steffens went after city bosses.
300
This 1913 amendment let voters, not state legislatures, choose senators.
What is the 17th Amendment? Mark Twain joked Congress was America's only "criminal class." Voters wanted more control.
300
This president brought more antitrust suits than TR, but Progressives still turned on him.
Who is William Howard Taft? He kept tariffs high and fired Gifford Pinchot.
300
In 1895, this leader said Black Americans should focus on work and education first.
Who is Booker T. Washington? Du Bois demanded full rights right away.
300
An octopus has this many hearts.
What is three?
300
The Latin word "plumbum" gave us the word "plumber" and this metal's symbol, Pb.
What is lead?
400
Mostly Asian immigrants were held here for weeks or months in San Francisco Bay.
What is Angel Island? Ellis Island took hours to days. Laws like the Chinese Exclusion Act made Angel Island harsher.
400
This muckraker wrote "The Shame of the Cities" about bribes and city bosses.
Who is Lincoln Steffens? He showed political machines and businesses working together.
400
She co-founded Hull House in Chicago in 1889.
Who is Jane Addams? Women's reform work helped prove they deserved the vote.
400
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In 1912, TR ran under this party and split the Republican vote.
What is the Progressive (“Bull Moose”) Party?
400
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Wilson passed major economic reforms, but in federal offices he allowed this to be done to Black workers, showing Progressivism’s limits. (Single word)
What is segregation? Wilson was progressive on business, not on race.
400
The first chapter of this 1997 book is titled “The Boy Who Lived.”
What is Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s (Philosopher’s) Stone?
500
This federal school forced Native children away from their families to "Americanize" them.
What is the Carlisle Indian Industrial School? Hull House was the opposite: adults chose to go. Both pushed assimilation.
500
In 1911, 146 workers died in this fire, many behind locked doors.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire? New York passed fire-safety laws. That is economic reform: protecting workers.
500
These suffragists were jailed for picketing the White House and force-fed during hunger strikes.
(There were two groups with different acronyms, I am asking about the more radical one)
What is the National Woman's Party? Guards brutalized jailed picketers, and public sympathy grew. The 19th Amendment passed in 1920.
500
This 1914 agency stops unfair business practices.
What is the Federal Trade Commission? It was part of Wilson's New Freedom: restore competition.
500
Muir wanted this California valley left wild. Pinchot wanted a dam for San Francisco's water.
What is Hetch Hetchy? Congress approved the dam in 1913.
500
This is the only letter of the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any U.S. state.
What is Q?