Muckrackers
These people helped bring reform issues to the attention of the public.
What is a Muckraker?
This amendment was the focal point of the Jim Crow Laws involving minorities right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment? OR The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
This court case was argued that separate but equal violated what amendment?
What is the 14th. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States
Where did progressives live originally?
Urban cities
What is a direct primary?
allows voters to select candidates to run for political office
Corruption and Injustice
This tested a voters ability to read and write before being allowed to vote.
What is a literacy test?
What is Louisiana?
Who were Progressives?
Educated Professionals- (doctor, lawyer, social worker, clergy, teachers)
What is a secret ballot?
prevents party officials from knowing how people vote
What was the MAJOR accomplishment of muckraking?
The passing and creation of the Pure Food and Drug Act or the FDA
This clause allowed someone to vote if they had an ancestor in the United States prior to 1866.
Grandfather Clause
The result of this court case legalized .....
separate but equal
Name one target of their reform.
Political Machines, City Slums, Harsh Working Conditions, Big Business and Trusts, Suffrage for Women)
What is a referendum?
voters decide whether a given bill or constitutional amendment should be passed
This muckraker used photography as his method of exposing unsanitary living conditions in New York City.
What is Jacob Riis?
This tax required people to pay a small fee for ability to cast a vote.
BONUS QUESTION (200 Points): Explain how this item targeted minorities?
Poll Tax
Bonus Question: Most freed slaves were stuck in the sharecropping system of debt.
Booker T. Washington argued for this over Social Equality.
What is Economic Equality?
Who was America's first middle class?
Progressives
What is the historical significance of progressives in government?
increased citizen participation in government
This author wrote the book The Jungle about the meat packing industry in Chicago.
This term means to take away someone's right to vote.
What is Disenfranchising
W. E. B. Du Bois argued for which types of equality?
Economic and social
What big business did Ida Tarbell try to expose for ruthless practices?
Standard Oil
FINAL JEOPARDY
WHAT ORGINZATION DID SUSAN B. ANTHONY AND ELIZABETH CADY STANTON FORM?