Progressive Government
How can Third Parties effect the outcome of elections?
Taking votes from major parties
This amendment prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages.
18th
This journalist exposed lynching and racial violence in the United States.
Ida B. Wells
This term described journalists and writers who exposed corruption and dangerous social conditions.
Muckrakers
What was the Pendleton Civil Service Act's main goal?
To ensure merit based hiring.
To eliminate the spoils system/patronage.
To ensure fair hiring for federal jobs.
This reform allows citizens to propose a new law and place it directly on the ballot.
Initiative
This amendment established a federal income tax.
16th
This women’s-rights activist spent decades campaigning for women’s suffrage.
Susan B. Anthony
Upton Sinclair exposed unsanitary meatpacking practices in this novel.
The Jungle (Several questions on test)
This law was designed to break up business combinations that restricted competition.
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
This reform allows voters to approve or reject a proposed law.
Referendum
This amendment provided for the direct election of United States senators.
17th
This reformer expanded the temperance movement as a leader of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union.
Francis Willard (On your test)
Public outrage over contaminated and falsely labeled products contributed to the passage of this 1906 law.
Pure Food & Drug Act (On test)
This manufacturing process made steel faster and more affordable, helping the American steel industry expand.
Bessemer Process
This reform allows voters to remove an elected official before the official’s term ends.
Recall
The Seventeenth Amendment, Nineteenth Amendment, and direct party primaries all produced this political result.
Increased citizen participation in elections.
This conservationist’s writings and camping trip with Theodore Roosevelt encouraged the protection of public lands.
John Muir (On your test)
Requiring accurate labels on food and medicine is an example of the government acting to protect this group.
Consumers
The Dawes Severalty Act attempted to force American Indians to adopt mainstream American culture through this process.
Assimilation
Government officials responding to the needs of voters more readily. (straight from your test)
Susan B. Anthony’s activism helped lead to the passage of this amendment.
19th amendment
This African American leader helped establish the NAACP to fight for political, social, and economic equality.
WEB DuBois (On your test)
Sinclair intended to expose terrible working conditions, but the public reacted most strongly to this problem.
Unsanitary conditions of the meat packing industry
Theodore Roosevelt formed this third party for the 1912 presidential election.
Progressive Party / Bull Moose Party