During the Gilded Age, the south most frequently voted for this political party.
What is the Democrats?
100
These people gained power in cities by taking advantage of the poor and immigrants.
Who are bosses?
100
He went from an asthmatic youth to an athletic, progressive president.
Who was Teddy Roosevelt?
100
The suffragist most responsible for the passage of the 19th amendment (the right of women to vote).
Who was Alice Paul?
100
This is the type of law that legalized segregation in the south.
What was Jim Crow?
200
Gilded Age Americans were concerned about many things but the power of this was probably at the top of the list.
What is the power of the rich?
200
This most famous muckraker aimed for the countries heart but hit its stomach instead in his famous work, The Jungle.
Who was Upton Sinclair?
200
TR's attack on these people was the reason he ended up on the Republican Presidential ticket in 1900.
Who were bosses?
200
Women picketing the White House in the 1910s were known as this.
What were silent sentinels?
200
African-American activist who was born a slave and ended up rubbing elbows with presidents like TR. He called for blacks and whites to work together in harmony.
Who was Booker T. Washington?
300
During the Gilded Age, people began to demand that civil servants be appoint on the basis of this. Which went a long way towards ending the spoils system.
What is talent or merit?
300
Robert La Follette was governor of this state what was the most progressive state. His ideas and the idea of the state set the tone for what progressives want to achieve.
What is Wisconsin?
300
This was the instrument that TR used to attack the Northern Securities Company in 1902.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
300
He was the president who eventually agreed to support the amendment for women to vote.
Who was Wilson?
300
W.E.B. Du Bois, Jane Addams, and Lincoln Steffens created this organization to promote rights for African-Americans.
What is the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)?
400
The Civil Service Commission created these for federal jobs. You had to pass in order to get a job with the government.
What are tests?
400
In 2003 California had a very progressive election. That saw many interesting people run for governor. But before that election, the people had to vote to throw the current governor out. This this the type of election that threw him out.
What is a recall election?
400
American had a bizarre election in 1912. These were the three people had a good chance to win.
Who were Teddy Roosevelt, William Taft, and Woodrow Wilson?
400
It was an issue since the 1840s but interest in it grew during the early 1900s. Eventually this movement gained enough support to get a Constitutional Amendment (#18) women like Carrie Nation were happy but the local bartender wasn't.
What is temperance?
400
This city was home to America's largest Bario in the 1910s and 20s.
What was Los Angeles?
500
The Interstate Commerce Commission attack this industry by making pools and rebates illegal.
What is the Railroad Industry?
500
One of two of the famous progressive amendments to the US Constitution. (Not their number, what they did)
What is Direct Election of Senators OR a Graduated Income Tax?
500
This was Wilson's plan to protect the Free Enterprise system in America.
What is the New Freedom?
500
This Boston college was the first to give a women a Ph.D in 1877.
What is BU?
500
In 1907 tension between American and this Asian nation had gotten so bad there was a war scare. It was settle with the Gentleman's Agreement.