Amendments
Which constitutional amendment allowed women to vote?
Nineteenth Amendment
What was the book that Upton Sinclair wrote called, and what industry did it expose?
The Jungle, the meatpacking industry.
What was the law passed to protect the food and medicines Americans consumed?
Pure Food and Drug Act
The first Progressive president, he passed laws improving the meat industry and went after monopolies.
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt
Two part: A business that controls every aspect of an industry. AND a group of businesses under a board that controls every aspect of an industry.
Monopoly, trust.
US citizens paying income taxes at varying rates based on level of income would be which amendment?
Sixteenth
Thomas Nast, a cartoonist for Harper's Weekly, exposed what sorts of people?
Corrupt politicians. (Leading to the start of the Civil Service Commission).
The __________ anti trust act was an attempt to break up monopolies and trusts but the language was too vague to enforce.
Sherman
Name the president after Theodore Roosevelt.
William Howard Taft
Jane Addams started settlement houses in Chicago with the Hull House, what was the primary purpose of these settlement houses?
To assimilate and help poor immigrants.
What did the eighteenth amendment do?
Which muckraker exposed the overcrowded and unsanitary living conditions at the time?
Jacob Riis (He got laws passed to set maximum occupancy and clean the street regularly).
What did reform leader Susan B. Anthony want to happen in the United States?
She wanted women to gain suffrage (the right to vote).
What policy was used by President William Howard Taft to use US economic power to negotiate instead of military force.
Dollar Diplomacy
The political party that primarily represented farmers and laborers.
Populist Party
What did the fifteenth amendment do?
Prohibited states from denying the right to vote based on "race, color, or previous condition of servitude".
What method did Lewis Hine use to expose child labor and lead to reform banning it?
What did the civil service commission do?
Required that government jobs be given out based on merit (an exam).
Teddy Roosevelt's policy for negotiating peacefully but keeping a strong military was called ______ __________ diplomacy.
Big Stick
The African American leader who wanted immediate equality and started the NAACP.
WEB DuBois
Two Part: The ______________ amendment established the direct election of senators. Prior to this amendment, senators were chosen by the __________ ____________________.
Seventeenth, state legislatures.
What trust did Ida Tarbell, a journalist for McClure's magazine, break up? Which Law did she use to do that (hint: this law had been relatively ineffective up to now)?
Standard Oil, the Sherman Antitrust Act.
What are the THREE reforms that allowed citizens to propose and pass a law themselves, approve or reject laws themselves, and vote out government officials they voted in?
Initiative, reform, recall.
President Teddy Roosevelt's 3 major goals was called the ____________ deal (hint: it benefitted four different groups of people).
Square
Name two major geographical obstacles to the construction of the Panama Canal.
Mountains, hills, jungles, forests, elevation change, mosquitoes, disease, etc.