People of the Progressive Era
Created settlement houses like Hull House in order to house immigrants and the poor.
Who is Jane Adams?
Political process that allowed voters to remove an elected official from office.
(Initiative-referendum-recall)
What is recall?
Enacted through the 16th amendment.
What is income tax?
Type of economic system that led to further controls on the economy.
What is Laissez Faire (Hands-Off) economics?
Name of the practice that promoted the responsible, sustainable management of natural resources by setting aside thousands of acres, protected by the federal government? Hint: enacted by Theodore Roosevelt.
What is conservation?
Believed in protest for civil rights. Rejected accommodation for black Americans and favored inclusion.
Who is W.E.B Du Bois?
New reform that allowed for people’s identities to be anonymous.
What is the secret (Australian) ballot?
DAILY DOUBLE: Administration that was created in order to protect the public from unsafe, poisonous, or unsanitary products that were to be consumed by them.
What is the FDA? (Food and Drug Administration)
Muckraker that targeted Standard Oil and exposed its corrupt practices?
Who is Ida Tarbel?
Amendment that enacted the prohibition of alcohol.
What is the 18th amendment?
Created the book, “How the Other Half Lives”, depicting slums in New York City through photography.
Who is Jacob Riis?
DAILY DOUBLE: Amendment that created the direct election of senators.
What is the 17th amendment?
Act was passed as a way to place stricter sanitary standards on the meat packing industry.
What is the Meat Inspection Act?
Act that targeted trusts by promoting free-market trade and outlawing monopolies.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
Progressives that championed the League of Nations and created the "Fourteen Points"?
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
Believed that the key to equality and self-sufficiency was through labor, education, and economic opportunity. Through the Atlanta Compromise speech, argued that civil rights were to be earned, not given.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
Process that allowed citizens to propose laws or amendments through signatures.
(Initiative-referendum-recall)
What is initiative?
Organization was created with a focus on higher wages, shorter hours, and better working conditions.
What is the AFL? (American Federation of Labor)
Name the three 3 C’s of the Square Deal, enforced by Theodore Roosevelt. Targeted “bad” trusts while protecting the American people. (must name all three)
What is conservation, consumer protection, and corporate regulation?
DAILY DOUBLE: Name of the doctrine that argued that education should improve people’s lives outside of the classroom, primarily reinforced through volunteerism and help to the state.
What is the Wisconsin idea?
Created the book, “How the Other Half Lives”, depicting slums in New York City through photography.
Who is Jacob Riis?
Process that let voters approve or reject laws passed by legislatures.
(Initiative-referendum-recall)
What is referendum?
Disaster/tragedy occurred in New York that led to stricter laws in factory safety.
What was the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire?
“Triple wall of privilege” that Wilson aimed to combat. (must name all three to get points)
What are tariffs, banking, and trusts?
Break down the acronym, "NAACP". Hint: Civil Rights organization.
(Must get all letters right to get points)
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?