People
Vocuabulary
Government
Random Questions
Solutions
100
26th President- progressive, trustbuster, supported miners strike, conservationist, promised a "Square Deal"
What is Theodore Roosevelt
100
A crusading journalist- press, authors, photographers that expose corruption in government, industry and terrible living conditions (Tarbell, Riis and Sinclair)
What is a muckraker
100
An election in which voters, rather than party leaders, choose their party's candidate
What is a primary
100
A way for people to vote directly on a proposed new law
What is a referendum
100
Ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol
What is the Prohibition
200
28th President- New Freedom (program restored free competition between corporations), Federal Trade Commission, investigated companies to stop unfair business practices
What is Woodrow Wilson
200
A person who works for women's right to vote
What is a suffragist
200
System that includes most government jobs, except elected officials, judiciary and military Civil Service Commission-gave jobs based on merit
What is Civil Service
200
This suffragist created a detailed strategy to win suffrage, state by state
What is Carrie Chapman Catt
200
Prominent African American- founded Tuskegee Institute in Alabama - offered training in industrial and agricultural skills
What is Booker T. Washington
300
Suffragist- used forceful means to try to get women the right to vote...asked president Wilson for help
What is Alice Paul
300
A natural area protected and managed by the federal government
What is a National Park
300
Process by which people may vote to remove an elected official from office
What is a recall
300
Murder by a mob
What is lynching
300
First African American to earn a PhD (Doctorate Degree)
What is W.E.B. Dubois
400
27th President- Supported progressive causes, broke up more trusts than Theodore Roosevelt, favored graduated income tax, approved safety rules for mines, gave government workers 8 hour work day, controlled child labor
What is William Howard Taft
400
A person working to destroy monopolies and trusts
What is a trustbuster
400
Process that allows voters to put a bill before a state legislature
What is an initiative
400
A school sponsored by a church
What is a parochial school
400
Protection of natural resources
What is conservation
500
In charge of the Christian Woman's Temperance Union- fought to ban the sale of alcohol
What is Frances Willard
500
Protection of natural resources
What is conservation
500
method of taxation that taxes people at different rates depending on income (wealthy pay higher rate than middle class or poor)
What is Graduated Income Tax
500
Prejudice against Jewish people
What is anti-semitism
500
What is Mrs. Kollmeier's favorite color
What is blue
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