Terms
the movement of people to cities
urbanization
those who believe humans cannot know whether there is a God
agnostics
A popular preacher who attacked both liberalism and social problems while preaching the gospel of salvation was
Billy Sunday
The person who founded the Hull House in Chicago to aid the poor residents was
Jane Addams
The party of progressives who followed Roosevelt in the split of the Republican Party was nicknamed the _______________ Party.
Bull Moose
an exemption from a fee or exam to vote if a person, his father, or grandfather could vote before 1867
grandfather clause
gave women the right to vote
Nineteenth Amendment
A local New York politician who defrauded the city of millions of dollars before he was sent to prison was
William “Boss” Tweed
The author of The Jungle, which exposed the unsafe and unsanitary practices in the meatpacking industry, was
Upton Sinclair
Taft’s policy of influencing foreign affairs through the investment of American money in foreign countries was called ______________ diplomacy.
dollar
the separation of the races
segregation
provided for the direct election of senators
Seventeenth Amendment
The former slave who became leader of Tuskegee Institute was
Booker T. Washington
Theodore Roosevelt chose ______________ to be his successor as the Republican candidate for president in 1908.
William Howard Taft
The ___________ Act allowed federal inspectors to examine slaughterhouses and meat companies and regulated companies that manufactured medications.
Pure Food and Drug
laws that required the forced separation of the races in trains, schools, and other public accommodations
Jim Crow laws
created the federal income tax
Sixteenth Amendment
___________ taught at Tuskegee Institute and found hundreds of uses for peanuts.
George Washington Carver
The former president of Princeton University and governor of New Jersey who won the election of 1912 as a Democrat was
Woodrow Wilson
Reformers founded ____________ houses to provide food, clothing, medical care, childcare, recreation, and classes to help those living in tenements.
settlement
the movement to bring about political and social reform through education and direct action by the government
progressivism
prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages
Eighteenth Amendment
The founder of the NAACP, the first African American to receive a doctorate from Harvard, and an outspoken critic of discrimination was
W. E. B. DuBois
The Mexican bandit who murdered eighteen Americans in Mexico and seventeen more in New Mexico was
Pancho Villa
___________ were established to reach people in troubled neighborhoods by providing food, shelter, and spiritual guidance.
Rescue missions