Progressive Problems
Muckrakers
Progressive Legislation and ideas
Progressive
Amendments
Racial Divide
100

•What is the principle that society should interfere with business and competition as little as possible.

What is a social Darwinism

100

This author went undercover in a meat packing District in Chicago and wrote the book called "The Jungle."

Who is Upton Sinclair

100

This progressive idea permits voters to remove public officials from office before the next election.

What is recall.

100

This amendment guaranteed the right for women to vote.

What is the nineteenth amendment.

100

• These were statutes in the 1890s that required segregation of public services by race.

What were the Jim Crow Laws

200

•What is the complete control of a product or service.

What is a  monopoly

200

Who is the newspaper columnist who wrote about the horros of Lynching in the South

Who is Ida B Wells

200

The progressive idea allowed citizens to put a new proposed law on the ballot with a petition.

What is the initiative.

200

This amendment prohibited alcohol.

What is the eighteenth amendment.

200

• These were laws restricting voting privileges to anybody unless your ancestors had them.

What is Grandfather Clauses

300

•What is a loose association of businesses that make the same product.

What are cartels

300

He said that African Americans needed to seek equality immediately and he went on to start the NAACP

Who is W.E.B. Dubois

300

This Progressive Era process allowed citizens to approve or reject a law passed by the government.

What is a referendum.

300

This amendment established a federal income tax.

What is the sixteenth amendment.

300

This act prohibited Chinese labors from entering the country.

What is the Chinese Exculsion Act

400

Corrupt politicians frequently gave government jobs to friends and supporters.

What is patronage or spoil system

400

This person led the "Back to Africa" movement but was later arrested and deported back to Jamaica

Who is Marcus Garvey

400

This Act set up standards to ensure quality foods and medicines. They came in reaction to the Jungle

What is the Pure Food and Drug Act.

400

This amendment repealed Prohibition

What is the 21st amendment.

400

•This Act reversed the Dawes Act’s policy of Assimilation.

What is the Indian Reorganization Act

500

•This Act divided reservation land into individual plots.

What is the Dawes Act

500

This book called "How The Other Half Lives", complete with photos, detailed the lives of the immigrant poor in cities across America.

Who is Jacob Riis

500

These Were presidential policies made by Theo. Roosevelt using unspoken military strength with negotiations.

What is Big Stick Diplomacy

500

This Amendment gave citizens the right to vote

What is the fifteenth amendment.

500

This is an 1896 supreme court case stating separate but equal accommodations were legal

What is Plessey vs Ferguson

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