Political leaders who controlled elections through bribery and payoffs.
Who are bosses?
100
Group of reformers who began working to improve american society.
Who are the Progressives?
100
Led the progressive crusade against child labor.
Who is Florence Kelley?
100
40 percent of women in 1910 went to this.
What is College?
100
Founded the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
Who is booker T. Washington?
200
Organizations that guaranteed votes at election time through both leagal and illegal methods. (Tammany Hall)
What are political machines?
200
Reporters who began writing about corruption in business and politics.
Who are Muckrakers?
200
There was 1.75 million WHAT working in mines, mills and factories.
What is Children?
200
This organization united women from many different backgrounds in the fight against alcohol abuse.
What is the Woman's Christian Temperance Union?
200
Journalist who risked her life to expose the lynching problem in the south.
Who is Ida B. Wells-Barnett?
300
President involved with the Whiskey Ring.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
300
Allowed voters to choose candidates for public office directly rather than relying on party leaders.
What is direct primary?
300
Accident in which 146 workers lost their lives.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory?
300
Amendment that outlawed the manufacture, sale or transportation of alcoholic beverages in the United States.
What is the Eighteenth Amendment?
300
Group that demanded economic and education Equality, as well as an end to segregation and discrimination. (Founded by W. E. B. Du Bois)
What is The Niagara Movement?
400
Dissatisfied republicans who threw their support behind the Democratic nominee Grover Cleveland.
Who are the Mugwumps.
400
Allows voters to approve or disapprove legislation that has ALREADY been proposed or passed by state or local government.
What is a Referendum?
400
A system in which the government or the workers own and operate the nation's means of production.
What is Socialism?
400
Group that focused on getting women the right to vote. (5 words)
What is the National American Woman Suffrage Association?
400
Led by antilynching activist Mary Church Terrell, supported political reforms for African Americans. These reforms included women's suffrage and protecting the voting rights of black men in the south.
What is the National Association of Colored Women?
500
Scandal that damaged the careers of several Gilded Age politicains, including Schulyer Colfax, Grants vice president.
What is the Credit Mobilier scandal?
500
A Program of reforms to reduce the influence of political machines and to professionalize state government.
What is the Wisconsin Idea?
500
Founded the Industrial Workers of the World.
Who is William D. "Big Bill" Haywood?
500
Amendment that gave women in the United States the right to vote.
What is the Nineteenth Amendment?
500
Members of this Society Believed that the Dawes Act, which authorized the breakup of reservation system, was the best solution to Indians poverty and unemployment.