Section 1
Powerful organizations that used legal and illegal methods to get their candidates elected.
Political machines
Ida B. Tarbell’s reporting was responsible for breaking up the monopoly of what company?
Standard Oil
What labor union did Bill Haywood lead?
Industrial Workers of the World
What significant event happened in 1911 in New York?
Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire
From 1870 to 1910, the percentage of women attending college went from 20% to ________.
40%
Which amendment outlawed alcohol?
A. 17
B. 18
C. 19
D. 20
B. 18
Who assassinated William McKinley?
A. Leon Cslozgoz
B. Charles Guiteau
C. John Wilkes Booth
D. Lee Harvey Oswald
A. Leon Cslozgoz
Which amendment allowed for the government to impose an income tax?
A. 13
B. 14
C. 15
D. 16
D. 16
Who was the leader of Tammany Hall?
William Marcy Tweed
What is the goal of a recall vote?
Remove the elected official before their term is up
Paid workers a portion of lost wages due to injuries sustained while working.
Workers compensation
In 1900, how many people died in industrial accidents?
A. 10,000
B. 35,000
C. 55,000
D. 60,000
B. 35,000
How did Carlos Montezuma and Charles Eastman believe that Native American poverty could be ended?
Integration into white society
What amendment gave women the right to vote?
A. 17
B. 18
C. 19
D. 20
C. 19
After the death of McKinley, who becomes president?
Theodore Roosevelt
Why did Woodrow Wilson win the 1912 presidential election so easily?
Taft and Roosevelt split the Republican vote
What was the Union Pacific Railway receiving in exchange for bribing members of Congress?
Government funds
Which amendment made senate elections direct elections by the citizens?
A. 16
B. 17
C. 18
D. 19
B. 17
An economic system where private businesses run most industries and competition determines the price of goods
Capitalism
What did the WCTU seek to stop?
Sale of alcohol
Name at least two states where women could vote prior to the amendment that allowed them to vote in all states.
Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho
Theodore Roosevelt believed the interests of what three groups of people should be balanced.
Business people, laborers, consumers
Who killed President Garfield?
A. Leon Cslozgoz
B. Charles Guiteau
C. John Wilkes Booth
D. Lee Harvey Oswald
B. Charles Guiteau
Where did the first kindergarten open?
St. Louis
Economic system, the government owns and operates a country’s means of production
Socialism
When the NAACP won the court case of Guin v. United States, what became illegal?
Grandfather clauses
Who wins the 1908 election?
William Taft
What were journalists called who "exposed the muck and filth of society" called?
Muckrakers
Who was the journalist who wrote articles in McClure’s Magazine exposing corruption in city government?
A. Ida B. Tarbell
B. Matt La Follette
C. Lincoln Steffens
D. Joseph Pulitzer
C. Lincoln Steffens
What state passed the first worker’s compensation law?
Maryland
From 1885 - 1915, how many African Americans were lynched?
3,000
What party does Roosevelt run with during the 1912 election?
Progressive
Bull Moose