Muckrakers
What term refers to journalists who exposed social injustices during the Progressive Era?
Muckrakers
This president is known as the TRUSTBUSTER.
Teddy Roosevelt
These laws made it legal to segregate and discriminate against African Americans mostly in the South.
Jim Crow Laws
The Populist Party was formed to help who? And where are they located?
farmers
Midwest/Great Plains
What do the stripes on the American flag represent?
13 original colonies
Muckraker who wrote The Jungle, also what did it expose?
Upton Sinclair, meatpacking industry
Roosevelt created this third party to rival the sitting Republican candidate in 1912.
Bull Moose Party
This was a secret organization the used scare tactics against non natives, Jews, Catholics, and African Americans.
Ku Klux Klan
Amendment that was pushed by the Populists that allowed for the direct election of US Senators.
17th Amendment
The United States bought Alaska from which country?
Russia
Muckraker who was responsible for publishing tenement life in "How the Other Half Lives."
Jacob Riis
Roosevelt, along with John Muir, wanted to conserve land, what are at least two ways the president completed this.
National Forests
National Parks
Game Preserves
Bird Preserves
This Amendment was pushed by women to achieve equal suffrage as men.
19th Amendment
16th Amendment
If it is 8 a. m. in California, what time is it in Missouri?
10 AM
Who was the muckraker that pushed to end child labor?
Lewis Hine
What happened to the votes during the election of 1912? (who was split/who won the election)
Republican Party votes were split
Democrat W. Wilson won
This women helped create the National Women's Suffrage Association and pushed to get an amendment passed for suffrage.
Susan B. Anthony
What are three problems that faced farmers during this time period?
drought, shipping costs, animal/crop disease, falling prices, overproduction, high tariffs
From 2000 to 2008, U.S. "golden" dollar coins were minted with an image of what Shoshone woman who guided the Lewis and Clark expedition?
Sacagawea
Wrote a book called the History of the Standard Oil Company, exposed the corruption and vicious tactics of the Standard Oil Company.
Ida Tarbell
What piece of legislation was passed to break up monopolies and trusts?
Sherman Anti-Trust Act or Clayton Anti-Trust Act
This muckraker pushed for equality in the south by exposing the horrors of lynching and segreagation.
Ida B. Wells
What standard did farmers want to use in order to raise crop prices?
Bimetallic Standard
Bimetallism
What year was Taylor Swift born?
1989
What were community centers established in urban areas to provide social services and education to immigrants and the poor?
This piece of legislation was passed to ensure labeling of products, and protect consumers from poisonous and diseased food.
Pure Food and Drug Act
This organization was started to help end racial issues throughout the US, founded by W. E. B. Dubois.
NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
Who was the Democratic Presidential nominee that picked up many of the Populist platform?
William Jennings Bryan
Houston is home to what four major men’s sports franchises?
Astros, Texans, Rockets, and Dynamo
The Jungle resulted in what two things getting passed?
Federal Meat Inspection Act
Pure Food and Drug Act
What legislation was passed to eliminate high shipping costs of the railroads?
Interstate Commerce Act
This activist believed that equality needed to be achieved gradually and through job training at his Tuskegee Institute.
Booker T. Washington
What did the farmers hope to create by the "free coinage of silver," or bimetallic standard?
inflation - rising crop prices
What year was the first iPhone released?
2007
Co-founder of Hull House, Helped immigrant men and women with finding jobs, education, to become productive citizens.
Jane Addams
What does the impact of initiative, referendum, and recall have on politics?
gives more responsibility to voters
more power to citizens/more accountable
expands democracy
This activist believed that equality needed to be achieved immediately and needed to fight against segregation.
W. E. B. Dubois
What ultimately happened to the Populist Party?
dissolved or broke up, many issues were picked up by other major parties
What year was Facebook created?
2004
Lewis Hine exposed child labor and eventually it led to children doing what -
What is initiative, referendum, and recall?
proposing a bill to become a law
citizens vote on that bill
remove a official from office
This group was instrumental in pushing the narrative of urban immorality and the dangers of alcohol in cities.
Women's Christian Temperance Movement
Who was the president the ultimately won the election of 1896 for the Republican Party?
William McKinley
Who was named Time magazines “Man of the Year” in 1938?
Adolf Hitler
assimilation/Americanization
English, Christianity, jobs, child care, health care, clothing, food, etc.
What did Woodrow Wilson create that was meant to regulate the money supply in the US?
Federal Reserve System (Banks)
This movement was popularized in the Progressive Era and claimed that if you were a Christian it was your duty to help fix social issues in cities.
Social Gospel Movement
Give me four goals of the Populist Party platform that they wanted to pass?
inflation, bimetallic standard, 8 hour workday, 16th Amendment, 17th Amendment, regulate rr's
What is the only king in a deck of cards without a moustache?
King of Hearts