Legal Discrimination
This type of tactic was used to keep people from voting. If they could read, sometimes the test was given in a different language.
What is a literacy test?
This period is marked by widespread social activism and political reform that was to address the challenges caused by rapid urbanization.
What is Progressivism?
This person, who was given credit for using the assembly line (even though he did not create it) produced the Model T and paid his workers $5 a day for 8 hour work days (big deal!)
Who is Henry Ford?
This is one thing that Upton Sinclair's book The Jungle uncovered.
What is unsanitary conditions, or exploitation of workers, poor working conditions, etc.
This woman was known for her drive to ban saloons of alcohol, some say she is buried with a hatchet...
Carrie Nation
This is an annual tax that had to be paid prior to voting.
What is a poll tax?
This is a ban on alcohol.
What is prohibition?
This woman was an advocate for imroving the lives of women and children, fighting for children's rights and minimum wage laws!
Who is Florence Kelley?
These are two outcomes of Upton Sinclair's book The Jungle.
What are the FDA, the Meat Inspection Act, the Pure food and drug act
Passed in 1920, the 19th amendment granted women this...
What is Suffrage?
This term refers to a concept that separates people, and also the result of the court case Plessy v. Ferguson
This term refers to an investigative journalist during the Progressive Era
What is a muckraker?
An African American reformer who believed to end discrimination, African Americans needed to improve their economic value to society - he also was leader of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute.
Booker T. Washington
These are the four goals of progressivism...
What are:
Protecting Social Wellfare
Moral Improvement
Economic Reform
Fostering Efficiency
This president was one of the first to work with strikers and business owners to settle a coal strike in 1902, inviting them to the White House to come to an agreement...
Who is Teddy Roosevelt.
These laws in the South enforced segregation.
What are Jim Crow laws?
This form of direct democracy allows citizens to propose new laws or amendments by collecting signatures.
What is initiative?
This African American reformer believed in immediate action to gain full civil rights for African Americans.
W.E.B. Du Bois
These three terms were also efforts to clean up government and enable voters to take direct action.
What are initiative, referendum, and recall.
These are two reasons Henry Ford established an education department in his plants..
What are to teach the English language, and to learn American ways.
This clause stated that even if a man failed the literacy test or could not afford the poll tax, he was still eligible to vote if his father or grandfather voted prior to 1867.
What is the Grandfather Clause?
This term refers to voting to remove officials from public office.
What is recall?
This man sat in a whites-only railway car in New Orleans to protest Louisiana's Separate Car Act, leading to a groundbreaking case that would legalize the idea of "separate but equal" and segregation
Who is Homer Plessy?
This is what happened to the Republican party during the election of 1912, paving the way for Woodrow Wilson's historic win!
It split --> republican and Bull Moose
This is one reason many women began to complete high school in the late 1800s...
What is to take jobs that required a high school education?