Progressive Era Review Game

EXPOSED!

100

The problems during this period encouraged Progressives to make changes (reforms)

What is the Great Transformation

200

Individuals who sought to expose problems

What are muckrackers

300

This individual sought to bring down Boss Tweed and his political machine through political cartoons

Who is Thomas Nast

400

Daily Double!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Paying taxes on the income (money) you make is a result of this.

What is the 16th amendment.

500

Both of these individuals used photography to expose problems

Lewis Hines and Jacob Riis

NO YOU DID NOT DO THAT

100

This individual was focused on the problem of lynching

Ida B. Wells

200

This individual wrote the Jungle

Who is Upton Sinclair

300

This individual believed that African Americans should focus on gaining respect through skilled labor rather than fight Jim Crow Laws.

Who is Booker T. Washington

400

These were the four reasons given for Prohibition based on our source material.

What is science, responsibility, patriotism, religion/heaven

500

This individual created the NAACP.  Name the person and what the NAACP stands for.  

WEB Du Bois and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. 

AS THE WIND BLOWS

100

This reform allowed voters to remove an elected official from office

What is Recall

200

The problems exposed in the book The Jungle led to these legislative acts.

What are the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act.

300

Women who fought for their right to vote referred to themselves as this

Suffragettes

400

In order to deal with monopolies and the problem of consumers being charged prices that were to high the government created this act.

Sherman and Clayton Anti-Trust Acts

500

What is the difference between a Referendum and Initiative?

A Referendum allowed voters to repeal a law while an Initiative gave voters the right to put a law on the ballot

MAKING AMENDS

100

This amendment gave me of color the right to vote.

What is the 15th

200

This amendment expanded the right to vote to women.

What is the 19th

300

This was the purpose of the 17th Amendment

What is giving voters the power to directly elect senators

400

Many Americans, especially women, believed that passing this amendment would end problems such as domestic abuse by banning alcohol. 

What is the 18th 

500

This was the number of amendments passed during Reconstruction and this was the number of amendments passed during the Progressive Era.

Three and Four

RANDOMNESS

100

To try to help with children living in poverty the government created this.

What is the Children's Bureau

200

Political machines would give voters money, jobs, citizenship, protections, housing in order to get them to vote for a particular candidate.  These favors are known as this. 

What is graft. 

300

Boss Tweed was an example of this in the political machine.

What is the city boss

400

Labor unions used these two methods to fight for better working conditions and wages

strikes and boycotts

500

The Declaration of Sentiments was constructed here.

What is the Seneca Falls Convention.