Progressive Problems
This term describes separation of races in public places during the late 1800s and early 1900s.
A: What is segregation?
This African American leader believed in gradual equality through vocational training and founded Tuskegee Institute.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
This allowed citizens to remove an elected official before their term is over.
What is a recall?
Writers and journalists who exposed corruption and problems were known by this nickname.
Who are muckrakers?
This movement worked to give women the right to vote.
What is the women’s suffrage movement?
These laws in the South enforced segregation after Reconstruction.
What are Jim Crow laws?
This reformer fought to end lynching and promote civil rights.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
This reform lets voters choose candidates for office, rather than party bosses deciding.
What is a direct primary?
This muckraker exposed the meatpacking industry in The Jungle.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
This movement pushed for banning alcohol to reduce family and social problems.
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What is the Temperance Movement? (
This dangerous practice forced young boys and girls to work in mines, factories, and mills.
What is child labor?
This muckraker photographed slums in How the Other Half Lives.
Who is Jacob Riis?
This process allows citizens to propose new laws for the ballot.
What is an initiative?
This muckraker revealed how the Standard Oil Company acted as a monopoly.
Who is Ida Tarbell?
This U.S. government agency was created in 1905 to protect forests and natural resources.
What is the Forest Service?
Urban neighborhoods called this were overcrowded, dirty, and unsafe for families.
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What are tenements?
This reformer demanded immediate political, civil, and social rights for African Americans and helped form the NAACP.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
This reform lets voters approve or reject laws passed by the legislature.
What is a referendum?
These two laws were passed to protect consumers from unsafe or dishonest food and drugs.
What are the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act?
This amendment gave women the right to vote in 1920.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This economic problem occurred when a single company controlled an entire industry and eliminated competition.
What is a monopoly (or trust)?
This Progressive governor from Wisconsin promoted direct democracy and fought political corruption.
Who is Robert La Follette?
This amendment allowed voters—not state legislatures—to directly elect U.S. Senators.
What is the 17th Amendment?
This author’s photographs of crowded tenements pushed Americans to improve urban housing.
Who is Jacob Riis?
President Theodore Roosevelt was known for protecting nature and breaking up these large, unfair companies.
What are trusts (or monopolies)