Progressive Era 1
Progressive Era 2
Progressive Era 3
Progressive Era 4
Progressive Era 5
Progressive Era 6
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The era that brought many changes and reforms to American society
progressive era
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Name the President after Teddy Roosevelt.
Howard Taft
100
This commission regulated the railroads, telephones, and, telegraph companies
Interstate Commerce Commission
100
These journalists exposed corruption in cities during the Progressive Era ("they stayed digging up dirt")
Muckrakers
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Jane Addams founded a Settlement House named the Hull House in Chicago. What was one of the social services that she provided for immigrants and the needy?
a place to live ,find a job, or learn english
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Name the President after TAFT.
Woodrow Wilson
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It was a "Triangle" of horror as, doors were bolted shut, the sprinkler system failed, and the fire escape was faulty. This event claimed the lives of 146 people and forced companies to make working conditions safer.
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
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The 1st Progressive president. As president he passed laws improving the meat industry and went after monopolies.
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt
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During the Progressive Era, did the role of the federal government get bigger or smaller?
Bigger
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Teddy Roosevelt's policy for relationships with other nations was to "speak softly and carry a Big _________"
Stick
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He worked undercover in a meat-packing plant and wrote the book The Jungle
Upton Sinclair
200
America joined WW1 shortly after receiving what?
Zimmerman Telegram/Note
300
Sacco and Vanzetti were anarchist immigrants from what original country?
Italy
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The Amendment that gave women the right to vote.
19th Amendment
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President Teddy Roosevelt's 3 major goals for America was called ______ deal.
Square
300
Daily Double(x2)
This amendment banned alcohol in the U.S.
18th
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The name of the new Political Party, formed before the election of 1912
The Bull Moose Party
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W.E.B. DuBois co-founded a national organization for the advancement of African American citizens. What was that organization called.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
(N.A.A.C.P)
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Alice Paul and Carrie Chapman Catt were instrumental in passing what?
19th Amendment
Women's Suffrage Movement.
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African-American leader who promoted immediate equality through the formation of the NAACP.
W.E.B Dubois
400
Supreme Court Case, Plessy v. Ferguson established what standard practice in America?
"Separate but Equal" (facilities for whites and blacks)
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Susan B. Anthony is most associated with which movement?
Women's Suffrage
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Civil Rights leader that argued that African Americans should achieve their rights through focusing on education.
Who is Booker T Washington?
400
The Federal Reserve Commission protected who against unfair business practices?
The Consumer
500
What was the cause of the Great Migration?
factory jobs being vacant while men were away, fighting in the war
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This act gave the federal government power to regulate unfair business practices.
Clayton Antitrust act
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Which president's economic reform was called "New Freedom"
Woodrow Wilson
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The 17th amendment allowed for what?
direct election of senators
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The 16th amendment allowed for what?
a federal income tax
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The creation of initiatives, referendums, and recall procedures during the progressive era resulted in what for citizens?
The expansion of citizens' direct participation in the democratic process
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What is the name of Jacob Riis' book that exposed the filth of cities?
"How The Other Half Lives"
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In 1903 President Roosevelt visited Yosemite Park. Following the advise of naturalist, John Muir, Roosevelt, a champion of CONSERVATION, did this?
Designated additional land for national parks
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* Direct Election of Senators & Regulation of railroad shipping charges
* A graduated income tax & secret ballot
* Free and unlimited coinage
These demands most reflected the concerns of---
Small Farmers
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Law passed to protect the food and medicines Americans consumed.
The Pure Food and Drug Act
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The movement that said people had a moral duty to help solve society's problems and to help people who are struggling.
Social Gospel Movement
600
Daily Double(x2)
Name the 3 (of out the 4) presidents that were assassinated
:Abraham Lincoln (1865, by John Wilkes Booth), James A. Garfield (1881, by Charles J. Guiteau), William McKinley (1901, by Leon Czolgosz), and John F. Kennedy (1963, by Lee Harvey Oswald)