Jim Crow laws passed in the South during the late 1800s were designed to
create a system of legal segregation
African-American leader who promoted immediate equality. Advocated for higher education so African Americans can become leaders
W.E.B Dubois
Reformers of the Progressive Era sought to reduce corruption in government by adopting the 17th Amendment, providing for
direct election of senators
The term muckraker was used during the Progressive Era to describe
investigative journalists who exposed societal problems
DAILY DOUBLE
Which progressive president had mostly financial reforms?
President Woodrow Wilson
What convention was held at the beginning of the women's suffrage movement?
The Seneca Falls Convention
DAILY DOUBLE
This government reform allows citizens of a state to propose and pass a law without involving their state legislature?
What is the initiative?
Civil Rights leader to started Tuskegee Institute. Taught students to Labor skills
Booker T Washington
During the Progressive Era, did the role of the federal government get bigger or smaller?
Bigger
The Progressive Movement occurred in the early 1900’s as a response to what?
urbanization and industrialization.
He worked as undercover muckraker in a meat-packing plant and wrote the book The Jungle.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
The Sherman Antitrust Act and the Clayton Antitrust Act were passed in an effort to
Maintain competition in business
Name the President after TAFT.
Woodrow Wilson
The era that brought many changes and reforms to American society
progressive era
President Teddy Roosevelt's 3 major goals for America was called ______ deal.
Square
Daily Double
This amendment banned alcohol in the U.S.
18th
When a business controls every aspect of an industry. This causes a lack of competition and raises prices for consumers.
Monopolies
What was the outcome of the Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)?
racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution as long as the facilities for people of color were equal in quality to those of white people. "Separate but equal
This is the section of the country where advances in suffrage took hold first.
What is the West?
The _____ anti trust act was an attempt to break up monopolies but the language was too vague to inforce.
Sherman
The Amendment that gave women the right to vote.
19th Amendment
As a result of the Progressive Movement, did the government either INCREASE or DECREASE its regulation of business practices?
What is INCREASE
19th amendment?
Women's suffrage or women rights to vote
Which company did Ida Tarbell expose?
The Standard Oil Company John D Rockefeller
Name the President after Teddy Roosevelt.
Howard Taft
In the early 1900s, Progressives succeeded in strengthening federal control over the money supply by
creating the Federal Reserve System
Which movement's primary goal was the ratification of a constitutional amendment authorizing Prohibition of alcohol?
temperance
What are the 3 C’s of the Square Deal.
Control corporations, consumer protection, Conservation
The 1st Progressive president. As president he passed laws improving the meat industry and went after monopolies.
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt
Initiatives, referendums, and recall elections were supported by the Progressives as ways to increase citizen participation in the
political process.
Which argument was used by Progressive Era reformers to support the use of a graduated income tax?
People who make the most money should be taxed the most compared to people who make less money
In his book How the Other Half Lives, Jacob Riis focused attention on the living conditions of
residents of urban slums in New York City
Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois agreed that African Americans should
use education to gain opportunities
Law passed to protect the food and medicines Americans consumed.
The Pure Food and Drug Act
18th amendment?
Prohibiting the sale of alcohol
The manufacture, sale, and consumption of this became officially illegal in 1920.
What is alcohol?