Progressive Era
Term for members of the press who exposed corruption.
What is muckraker(s)?
Gave women the right to vote in 1920
What is the Nineteenth (19th) Amendment?
The three Progressive Presidents.
Who are Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson?
The winner of the 1912 Presidential Election; promoted a series of economic reforms that still influence American life.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
The term used to discuss women's right to vote.
What is suffrage?
Author of The Jungle who exposed bad practices in the meatpacking industry.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
Created in part due to Upton Sinclair (two answers).
What are the Meat Inspection Act (1906) and the Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)?
Roosevelt's slogan in the 1904 election everyone deserves this type of deal.
What is "A Square Deal"?
The U.S. supported a rebellion in Panama to gain the rights to this massive waterway.
What is the Panama Canal?
A ban on the making and selling of alcohol, was later repealed by the 21st Amendment.
What is prohibition (the 18th Amendment)?
The richest man alive- owned Standard Oil.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This act allowed federal inspection of food and medicine across state lines.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
These were formed to organize workers and bargain for more rights and pay.
What are unions?
A policy that stated the U.S. would trade with Chinese territories on the same terms as European countries.
What is the Open Door Policy?
Political Party that wanted to change the system and increase government involvement to improve lives.
What is the Progressive Party?
Known for Dollar Diplomacy and being the true Trustbuster.
Who was William Howard Taft
This allows the people to vote yes or no in a regular election to determine whether a law should be enacted or rejected.
What is Referendum?
President Roosevelt loved to hunt, so he encouraged the creation of what.
What are the National Parks?
An armed conflict between the U.S. and Spain; resulted in the U.S. acquiring territories in the Caribbean and Pacific.
What is the Spanish American War?
Started by Jane Addams to support immigrant families in need.
What is a Hull House?
A U.S. battleship that exploded off the coast of Havana Harbor in Cuba; strained relations between the U.S. and Spain.
What is USS MAINE?
Formed by Du Bois in 1909 to fight discrimination and fight legal battles on behalf of blacks.
What is the NAACP-National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
Legalized a federal income tax, which provided revenue by taxing individual earnings and corporate profits.
What is the Sixteenth Amendment?
The catalog sold everything at the turn of the century.
What is Sears and Robuck?
Teddy Roosevelt's name for the Navy vessels he sent around the world to show off American power.
What is the Great White Fleet?