Progressive Era
What amendment gave women the right to vote in 1920?
What is the Nineteenth (19th) Amendment?
The two most Progressive Presidents
Who are Theodore Roosevelt 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?
Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle", led to reform in what industry?
What is the meatpacking industry?
Roosevelt's slogan in 1904 election everyone deserves this type of deal
a Square Deal
the U.S. supported a Panamanian revolution against Columbia to gain the rights to this massive waterway
What is the Panama canal?
head of the American Socialist party; ran for president 6x
Eugene V. Debs
WEB Du Bois formed the NAACP in 1909 to fight discrimination on behalf of _______________.
Blacks (NAACP-National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
These were formed to organize workers and bargain for more rights and pay.
What are unions?
during this time an Open-Door policy was passed allowing the U.S. to trade with this Asian country.
What is China?
A minor political party at the time that wanted to change the system and increase government involvement to improve lives
What is the Progressive Party?
Teddy Roosevelt issued a corollary to what two-word foreign policy from the 1800s? He did this to use American power in Latin America.
This allows the people to vote yes or no in a regular election to determine whether a law should be enacted or rejected
Referendum
Teddy Roosevelt loved the outdoors, so he encouraged the creation of these.
National Parks
A direct primary is a run-off election between candidates from the same ________________.
What is a political party?
Supreme Court decision that legalized segregation in 1896.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
laws passed in the South to segregate African-Americans after the Civil War and were still in effect in the early 1900s.
"Jim Crow" Laws
this act allowed federal inspection of food and medicine across state lines
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
Legalized a federal income tax, which provided revenue by taxing individual earnings and corporate profits.
What is the Sixteenth Amendment?
a type of election whereby an elected official can be voted out of office
What is a recall election?
Teddy Roosevelt's name for the Navy vessels he sent around the world to show off American power.
What is the Great White Fleet