The Movement Begins
Senators serve this many years.
What is two years?
This woman developed the Hull House, a settlement house.
Who is Jane Addams?
The way Roosevelt become president.
What is McKinley was assassinated?
Unequal treatment because of a person’s race, religion, ethnic background, or place of birth.
What is discrimination?
Under this system, elected leaders gave government jobs and other favors to their political supporters.
What is the spoils system?
The purpose of this movement was to get people to stop drinking alcohol and, ultimately, to enact a legal ban on making or selling alcohol.
What is the temperance movement?
The party Roosevelt created when he lost the Republican primary.
What is the progressive party?
This group discriminated against non-whites, Catholics, Jews, and immigrants.
What is the KKK?
This act required people to demonstrate their skills on an exam, not just be appointed through political favor.
What is the Pendleton Act?
This Amendment granted women the right to vote in 1920.
What is the 19th amendment?
A process in which state voters directly select the nominees for the presidential election or indirectly through the choice of delegates to the presidential nominating convention.
What is a presidential primary?
Congress passed this Act in 1882 to prevent Chinese immigrants from coming to the United States.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This group of people believed that government should own major industries
What are socialists?
Men and women who fought for woman suffrage, or women’s right to vote.
Who are suffragists?
Establishes direct election of U.S. senators
What is the 17th amendment?
This Supreme Court Decision legalized segregation.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This amendment changed the way that senators were elected.
What is the 17th amendment.
This type of woman of the late 1800s had more free time and the opportunity for higher education and professional careers.
What is the “new women”?
Roosevelt was called this, because he made conservation an important public issue. He took steps to conserve the country’s forests, mineral deposits, and water resources.
What is the first environmental president?
Aid groups set up by Mexican Americans in the barrios to provide insurance and legal help.
What are Mutualistas?