Amendments
Progressive Era Presidents
Goals/Reasons for Progressivism
Vocabulary
African Americans Challenge Discrimination
100

This amendment gave women the right to vote

19th

100

This president focused on Conservation, Control of Companies, and Consumer Protection—The 3 Cs

Theodore Roosevelt

100

This goal of Progressivism sought to improve working and living conditions.

Social Welfare reform

100

An increase in the percentage and in the number of people living in urban settlements.

urbanization

100

I was born into slavery and believed learning a trade was more important than a formal education

Booker T. Washington

200

This is another word for the right to vote

Suffrage

200

He was hand picked by Roosevelt to become the next president…it didn’t work out how he planned.

Taft

200

This Progressive Era goal sought to encourage religion and temperance.

Moral Improvement reform

200

to bring back to rightness, order, or morality

reform

200

W.E.B. DuBois created this association that is still active today.

N.A.A.C.P.


For a lollypop: what do the initials stand for? (What is the official name of this organization?)

300

Prohibition

18th

300

This is Roosevelt's plan to take the interests of businesses, laborers, and consumers into account.

The Square Deal

300

Creating new trade laws, the addition of the Income Tax, and managing tariffs were a part of this Progressive Era goal.

Economic Reform

300

These people wrote newspaper articles and political cartoons in order to expose the wrongs of society.

Muckrakers

300

I was the first black man to earn a PhD from Harvard.

W.E.B. DuBois

400

Corrupt government and political machines created the need for this amendment

17th

400

When I was president I added 4 amendments to the Constitution, focused on banking reform, and created the Federal Trade Commision to investigate unfair trade deals.

Woodrow Wilson
400

Eliminating political machines and the addition of the 17th amendment were a part of this Progressive Era goal.

Government Reform

400

The term used for a person/group of people who controlled local government in order to push their own agendas.

Political boss/political machines

400

I spoke at a conference in Atlanta and earned support from leaders in Big Business such as Rockefeller and Carnegie.

Booker T. Washington

500

This amendment created the income tax

For a lollypop: The creation and use of income tax by the government paved the way for which movement?

16th


Bonus: Temperance/Prohibition

500

Roosevelt created this party in order to run against his former friend Taft because he could not run as a Republican.

For a lollypop: This nickname was the first of this still-current political party

Bull-Moose Party


Progressive Party

500

Henry Ford’s assembly line helped push this Progressive Era goal.

Fostering Business Efficiency

500

The process that permits voters to put legislative measures directly on the ballot

initiative

500

The relocation of many African Americans from the South to the North and West.

The Great Migration

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