Muckrakers & Teddy Roosevelt
This Muckrakers work "How the Other Half Lives" exposed Americans to the plight of the impoverished.
Jacob Riis
Jane Addams founded this establishment, the first of its kind, to offer baths, cheap food, child care, job training, and medical care to the poor.
Hull House
In an effort to prevent Black people from voting, states in the south made black people pay to vote. This is known as what?
Poll tax
Senators
Industrialists would argue for the need for imperialism for what two business reasons?
New markets, new sources of raw materials
Progressive reformers came about to try to expose/fix the corruption of what time period?
Gilded Age
Known as the "Hatchet Granny", Carrie A. Nation helped form the Women's Christian ______ Union, which fought for prohibition laws.
Temperance
In addition to having to pay to vote, Black voters would also need to pass an exam, known as what?
Literacy test
Name two of the first concessions Labor Unions were able to obtain.
Minimum wage, maximum working hours
Adherents to Social Darwinism believed that America needed to spread what three things, to "civilize" the "inferior races"?
technology, Christianity, Democracy
This Muckrakers novel, The Jungle, set out to show the exploitive conditions immigrant workers were facing, but ended up showing Americans the disgusting state of the meat packing industry
Upton Sinclair
This amendment, ratified in 1919, prohibited the production and sale of alcohol in the US. Spoiler alert; it did not work.
18th
This Supreme Court case ruled that "Separate but Equal" was constitutional.
Plessy v Ferguson
The Progressive Era saw worksite inspections for the first time to ensure what?
Health and Safety Measures.
American businessmen led a successful coup to depose the Queen of what nation in 1891, seizing power in the process?
Hawaii
One of T.R.s main objectives was to build a pathway for ships to cross through Central America; what was this called?
Panama Canal
In 1890, Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Stanton helped form the NAWSA to fight for Women's Suffrage: what does it stand for?
National American Woman Suffrage Association
WEB DuBois, and other Black leaders, started the Niagara Movement, demanding an end to segregation and discrimination, that resulted in what organization being formed to advocate for their rights?
NAACP
What type of laws came about during the Progressive Era that provided financial assistance for workers injured on the job?
Workers Compensation
This type of reporting in the US Newspapers, that cared more about sensational headlines to prove their point than any actual facts, is associated with backing Cuba in their revolution against Spain.
Yellow Journalism
TR added the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, which gave the US "Police Powers" where? And to fight what?
Latin America, European Imperialism
In 1920, the 19th amendment gave women the right to vote nationally. However, since the 1900's, women in what part of the country generally already had the right to vote?
Western US
This Black reformer argued that through hard work and education, White Americans would eventually be forced to grant rights to Black Americans.
Booker T Washington
R.I.R.
Recalls allowed citizens to vote to remove an elected official, Referendums allowed citizens to vote on tax increases for specific programs. What did Initiative do?
Citizens can put issues directly on to the state ballot to be voted for.
Which of these did the US seize from Spain after victory in the Spanish-American War (select three): Philippines, Cuba, Guam, Alaska, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands
Philippines, Guam, Puerto Rico