A well-educated Progressive who felt that equality for African Americans was needed immediately
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
100
He cheated New York City out of $100 million. He was often shown in cartoons as a greedy giant or a vulture feeding on the city.
Who is "Boss" Tweed?
100
An election in which voters, rather than party leaders, choose their party's candidate
What is a primary?
100
A crusading journalist
What is a muckraker?
100
This piece of legislature gave women the right to vote
What is the 19th amendment?
200
She devised a detailed strategy to win suffrage state by state
Who is Carrie Chapman Catt?
200
The practice of rewarding political supporters with government jobs
What is the spoils system?
200
A process by which people may vote to remove an elected official from office
What is a recall?
200
A natural area protected and managed by the federal government
What is a national park?
200
A campaign against alcohol abuse in the 1820's
What is the temperance movement?
300
This Progressive founded the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama and wanted to move up gradually in society
Who is Booker T. Washington?
300
Forbade the practice of rebates as well as set up the Interstate Commerce Commission to oversee railroads
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
300
A method of taxation that taxes people at different rates depending on income
What is a graduated income tax?
300
A person working to destroy monopolies and trusts
What is a trustbuster?
300
Formed by Mexican immigrants, these groups pooled money to pay for insurance and legal advice
What are mutualistas?
400
This suffragist met with President Woodrow Wilson in 1913 and told him that suffragists had committed themselves to achieving a new amendment
Who is Alice Paul?
400
A system that includes most government jobs, except elected positions, the judiciary, and the military
What is the civil service?
400
A way for people to vote directly on a proposed new law
What is a referendum?
400
The protection of natural resources
What is conservation?
400
This pact required Japan to stop its workers from going to the U.S. In return, the U.S. allowed Japanese women to join their husbands, who were already in the country
What is the Gentleman's Agreement?
500
He was the youngest president to take office at the age of 42. He supported conservation and was also a trustbuster.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
500
Signed by President Benjamin Harrison in 1890, this piece of legislature prohibited businesses from trying to limit or destroy competition
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
500
A process that allows voters to put a bill before a state legislature
What is the initiative?
500
A ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol
What is prohibition?
500
Robert La Follette introduced various Progressive reforms that earned this nickname