Progressive Movement
What do you know?
Vocab to Know 1
Vocab to Know 2
Everything Else
100
Women's right to vote is called...
Suffrage
100
The names given to journalists in the 1900s who wrote about government corruption and social problems.
Muckrakers
100
What do we call money paid to someone to get them to do something against the law?
Bribe
100
A tax put on people's salary which was used to pay for government social programs.
Income Tax
100
the act of consciously and efficiently using land and/or its natural resources.
Conservation
200
A person who worked to help women gain the right to vote was called...
A Suffragist
200
This author who wrote the book "The Jungle" exposed the horrible conditions in the meatpacking industry.
Upton Sinclair
200
An illegal bar where alcohol was sold during Prohibition time.
Speakeasy
200
The process used to appoint jobs in government that require a person to take a test and be qualified for the job.
Civil Service
200
How well do you believe you will do on this test?
Add 100 points to your current score if you gave a positive answer and remove 100 points if you gave a negative answer.
300
What did women try to stop in the Temperance Movement?
The use of alcohol
300
The era that brought many changes and reforms to American society.
Progressive era
300
The name given to a person who sold alcohol illegally during Prohibition.
Bootlegger
300
The way in which politician were able to give their election supports government jobs. It was unfair and led to the Civil Service System.
Spoils System
300
Laws put in place to deal with the problems in the meat packing industry.
Meat Inspection Act
Pure Food and Drug Act
400
What did President Roosevelt do to the large Trusts (Monopolies)?
Broke them up or got rid of them if they were too powerful.
400
What was the name given to the time in history when wealthy people lived well and a spent a lot of money? (Hint: covered in Gold)
Gilded Age
400
What was President Roosevelt called because of his fight to reform the way monopolies functioned? (Hint: Trust)
Trustbuster
400
What do Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell and Lincoln Steffens all have in common?
They were all Muckrakers
400
What is this cartoon representing? Tell who it is and what he is doing.
President Roosevelt is investigating the Meat Packing Industry because of the Upton Sinclair novel "The Jungle's" exposure of the unsanitary conditions in them.
500
This president supported the idea of conserving over 170,000 acres of national parks.
President Theodore Roosevelt
500
What did they call a time when alcohol sale, making and transport was prohibited in the United States?
Prohibition
500
What is the name of those who wanted to improve the lives of people in society during the Progressive Era?
Progressives
500
What were the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Acts meant to do?
Protect consumers from harmful ingredients in the food they ate.
500
What is this cartoon representing? Tell who it is and what he is doing.
President Roosevelt is breaking up bad trusts and controlling good trusts so that the companies who had these monopolies do not remain so powerful.