Who was the muckraker and journalist who broke up the Standard Oil Trust?
Ida Tarbell
African-American leader who promoted immediate equality and started the NAACP.
W.E.B Dubois
The right to vote.
Suffrage
Journalists who exposed corruption in cities during the Progressive Era
Muckrakers
Which president used "Dollar Diplomacy" to deal with other nations?
Taft
What message is being conveyed by this cartoon?
The wealthy were dependent on the labor and exploitation of the working class.
This government reform allows citizens of a state to propose and pass a law without involving their state legislature?
What is the initiative?
Civil Rights leader to started Tuskegee Institute. Believed that African Americans would gain equality through vocational education.
Booker T Washington
During the Progressive Era, did the role of the federal government get bigger or smaller?
Bigger
Teddy Roosevelt's policy for relationships with other nations was called __________ diplomacy.
Big Stick
He worked as an undercover muckraker in a meat-packing plant and wrote the book The Jungle.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
What did the civil service commission do?
Required that government jobs be given out based on merit (an exam).
Name the President after Theodore Roosevelt.
William Howard Taft
The era that brought many changes and reforms to American society
progressive era
President Teddy Roosevelt's 3 major goals for America was called ______ deal (Hint: It benefitted four different groups of people).
Square
Which amendment started the income tax?
16th
When a business controls every aspect of an industry. This causes a lack of competition and raises prices for consumers.
Monopolies
Name two major geographical obstacles to the construction of the Panama Canal.
Mountains, hills, jungles/forests, elevation change, mosquitoes causing disease, etc.
What did referendum do?
Allowed voters to accept or reject laws based on a vote.
The _____ anti trust act was an attempt to break up monopolies but the language was too vague to inforce.
Sherman
The Amendment that gave women the right to vote.
19th Amendment
Who was the muckraker who photographed tenement living conditions and wrote How the Other Half Lives?
Jacob Riis
Serves as a democratic mechanism that allows individuals to have a voice in choosing who represents their respective political parties BEFORE the general elections.
Direct Primary
Which muckraker photographed child labor in action and encouraged the passage of laws banning the practice?
Lewis Hine
Name the President after Teddy Roosevelt.
Howard Taft
This businessman was involved in shipping and railroads. He helped build a University in Nashville TN
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Thomas Nast (He was helped by lawyer Samuel Tilden).
What law does this image refer to?
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
The 1st Progressive president. As president he passed laws improving the meat industry and went after monopolies.
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt
Initiatives, referendums, and recall elections were supported by the Progressives as ways to increase citizen participation in the
political process.
The political party that primarily represented farmers and laborers.
Populist Party
Reform leader Jane Addams started settlement houses in Chicago with the Hull House, what was the primary purpose of these settlement houses?
To assimilate and help poor immigrants.
What was the primary objective of reform leader Susan B Anthony?
To give women the right to vote (suffrage).
Law passed to protect the food and medicines Americans consumed.
The Pure Food and Drug Act
The urban, Christian movement said people had a moral duty to help solve society's problems and to help people who are struggling.
Social Gospel Movement
The manufacture, sale, and consumption of alcohol became officially illegal in 1920 with which amendment?
The 18th Amendment