Progressive Era
What amendment gave women the right to vote in 1920?
What is the Nineteenth (19th) Amendment?
Name two of the three Progressive Era Presidents
Theodore Roosevelt, William Taft and Woodrow Wilson
This amendment says that you can not testify against yourself
What is the 5th
Before labor laws, most people worked ___ hour shifts
12
Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle", led to reform in what industry?
What is the meatpacking industry?
Roosevelt's slogan in 1904 election everyone deserves this type of deal
a Square Deal
How many amendments are there in the Constitution
27
This man created Standard Oil
JD Rockefeller
WEB Du Bois formed the NAACP in 1909 to fight discrimination on behalf of _______________.
Black Americans
These were formed to organize workers and bargain for more rights and pay.
What are unions?
This amendment says that you can not be tried for the same crime twice
5th Amendment
This two-word phrase means "let it be" or "allow to do" and refers to the practice of government not regulating American businesses
laissez-faire
This muckraker took on the big oil trust Standard Oil
Ida Tarbell
What did the 17th amendment allow voters to do?
Elect senators
Teddy Roosevelt loved the outdoors, so he encouraged the creation of these.
National Parks
Name the five freedoms contained in the 1st amendment.
Religion
Assembly
Press
Petition
Speech/Expression
This word is the name for one company or business owning all of one type of service/commodity (results in no completion and high prices for consumers)
Monopoly or trust
PREVIEW! These were laws passed in the South to segregate African-Americans after the Civil War and were still in effect in the early 1900s.
"Jim Crow" Laws
This act allowed federal inspection of food and medicine across state lines
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
Legalized a federal income tax, which provided revenue by taxing individual earnings and corporate profits.
What is the Sixteenth Amendment?
Mr. Oakes middle name
Wayne
This word refers to allowing voters to directly vote for the passage of a particular idea or measure on a ballot.
Referendum