Presidents
What was Taft's nickname?
Trust buster
He wrote The Jungle, which meant to focus attention on the plight of workers. But instead it disgusted the public with the description of the meat. Led to the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act.
Upton Sinclair
What year did women get suffrage?
1920
What was the Hetch Hetchy Valley Controversy?
Conservation vs preservation
Nickname of the populist party
The people's party
Name all three progressive presidents with presidential term years.
Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909)
William Howard Taft (1909-1913)
Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921)
American social worker, sociologist, philosopher and reformer. She was the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, founder of the US Settlement House Movement
Jane Adams
The populist party rose from this alliance
Farmers Alliance
What were 16, 17, 18, and 19 amendments?
16: Graduated income tax
17: direct election of senators
18: prohibition
19: women's suffrage
What was the Pullman Strike?
Bonus points if you include the year and person
it was a large strike organized by Eugene Debs. It was started because a railroad car company was cutting the pay of their workers after being hit by the depression.
What president led to the split of the republican party during the 1912 election, costing them the election.
William Howard Taft
Prominent black American, born into slavery, who believed that racism would end once blacks acquired useful labor skills and proved their economic value to society, was the head of the Tuskegee Institute.
Booker T. Washington
No civil rights reforms, immigrants and African Americans discouraged from voting, and prohibition raised crime levels
Define referendum, initiative, recall, and Australian ballot
Initiative: allowed petitioning to have law on ballot
Referendum: laws on ballot for final public approval
Recall: voters can remove elected officials
Australian ballot: private ballots
The reason for the creation of the farmers alliance
The mechanization of agriculture led to many family farms being consolidated because they could not afford the machines
What was the Square Deal under Roosevelt?
Consumer protections, Corporate regulation, Conservation of natural resources.
Name as many muckrakers as you can. Whoever has the most gets the most points
Jacob Riis, Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, Ida B. Wells
What was the first state to pass legislation that created a state-run workers' compensation program, providing financial protection to workers who were injured on the job?
Wisconsin
What precedents did Muller v. Oregon set?
SCOTUS accepted laws protecting women workers by presenting the harmful effects of factory labor on women's bodies
What was the grandfather clause?
What event was Roosevelt's large controversy?
Brownsville Affair
Advocated for improving lives of women and children. Chief inspector of factories in Illinois. Got the passage of the Illinois Factory Act in 1893, prohibiting child labor and limited women's working hours.
Florence Kelley
What is the difference between conservation and preservation? Include the main activists for each side.
preservation: don't touch it (John Muir)
conservation: use it and replace it (Roosevelt/Pinchot)
What was the Clayton Anti-trust Act?
What happened at the Homestead Strike?
Steelworkers protested over pay cuts. officials sent in 300 armed detectives to squash the strike. Only ended when strikers put down their weapons. 10 dead, 60 injured