Progressive Era and Amendments and Acts
Amendment that gave the right to vote (suffrage) to Women
What is the 19th Amendment
Susan B. Anthony fought for ___________
What women's suffrage (19th Amendment)
This reform allowed voters to remove an elected official from office
What is Recall
We were known as The Progressive President
Who are Teddy Roosevelt, William H. Taft. Woodrow Wilson
What vocabulary term describes reformers who worked to fix problems caused by industrialization, corruption, and urbanization?
What is Progressives
This Amendment banned the distribution, manufacture, and sale of alcohol.
What is the 18th Amendment
Who wrote the Jungle?
Who is Upton Sinclair
Citizens could introduce a bill to be voted on in the state legislature.
What is Initiative
Which 2 Progressive Presidents created national parks and protected millions of acres of land as part of his conservation policy?
Who are Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson
Reform that prohibited children under the age of 16 from working.
What is the Child Labor Act (1916)
What is the first federal law in the United States designed to protect consumers by making it illegal to sell contaminated food or falsely labeled medicines
What is the Food and Drug Act of 1906
Jane Addams provided help to immigrants, women, and children in centers called__________________?
What is Settlement House
Voters cold make legislators place a bill on the ballot for approval
What is Referendum
What is this an Anti-Trust legislation (Trust Busting) set by Theodore Roosevelt
What is the Sherman Anti Trust Act
A Muckraker is a...
What is an investigative journalists who exposed corruption in business, politics, and society?
The 17th Amendment
What is Direct election of Senators. To increase direct democracy (peoples voices in government) the 17th amendment allowed citizens to elect U.S. senators.
Ida. B Wells was known for advocating for what cause?
What is anti lynching
law that ended the spoils system and required government jobs to be awarded based on merit?
What is the Pendleton Act
Name of the legislation which created the National Park Service to unify and manage America's national parks and monuments (W.Wilson)
What is the National Park Service Organic Act
Nativism is
What is the belief that native‑born Americans are superior to immigrants, leading to discrimination, anti‑immigrant laws, and social tension during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.
What is the purpose of the 16th Amendment?
What is to create a national income tax (to make up for lost revenue from tariffs)
I am best known for my photographs of people living in New York Cities poorest slums. Who am I
Who is Jacob Riis
Referendum, Recall, and initiative accomplish what?
What is Direct democracy/ involving citizens in government
Which Progressive President passed major economic reforms like the Federal Reserve Act and Clayton Antitrust Act?
Who is Woodrow Wilson
What is a trust?
a large business arrangement where several companies join together to control an entire industry.
Trusts were used to limit/prevent competition and raise prices