WWI
Muckrakers / Reformers
Progressive Legislation and Ideas
Progressive
Amendments
Amendments
Politics / Foreign Policy
100
These are the MAIN reasons for WWI
What is Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism & Nationalism?
100
This author wrote the "The Jungle" in response to his findings of corruption and unsanitary conditions in the Meat Industry.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
100
This progressive idea allows the public to hold a special election to remove elected officials who are not doing a good job.
What is recall.
100
This amendment guaranteed the right for women to vote.
What is the nineteenth amendment.
100
This person was the Democratic Candidate in the 1912 election.
Who is Woodrow Wilson.
200
This was the note that Germany sent to Mexico that was intercepted by the British but caused the U.S. to enter WWI
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
200
Muckrakers would use this primarily to influence society.
What is publishing articles and books.
200
The progressive idea allows average citizens to introduce legislation directly.
What is the initiative.
200
This amendment prohibited alcohol.
What is the eighteenth amendment.
200
This person was backed by former President Teddy Roosevelt but when he was elected he could not reach Roosevelts expectations
Who is William Howard Taft?
300
This is the ship that was sunk in the Atlantic by the Germans that killed 128 American lives prompting the US to enter WWI
What is the Lusitania?
300
Reformer who wrote newspaper columns leading a campaign against lynching.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
300
Progressives believed in more democracy to help fix America's problems. This reform allows the people to vote on a proposal.
What is a referendum.
300
This amendment established a federal income tax.
What is the sixteenth amendment.
300
Double Jeopardy:
1. What is Isolationism?
2. What US President was an Isolationist?
1. Remaining apart from other nations or remaining neutral in times of war.
2. Who is President Woodrow Wilson.
400
This is the Progressive President that led America into WWI
Who is President Woodrow Wilson?
400
This person was the founder of Hull House.
Who is Jane Addams
400
This legislation set up standards to ensure quality foods and medicines.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act.
400
This amendment established the direct election of U.S. Senators.
What is the seventeenth amendment.
400
F - The United States acquired Spanish territories in the Caribbean and the Pacific.
500
Double Jeopardy:
1. This is the form of warfare fought during WWI.
2. Name two innovative weapons introduced during WWI.
1. Trench Warfare
2. TANKS, Machine Guns, Poison Gas/Mustard Gas
500
Double Jeopardy:
1. This immigrant used pictures to show society the living conditions inside New York Tenements.
2. This muckrakers book, complete with photos, detailed the lives of the immigrant poor.
1. Who is Jacob Riis
2. What is How the Other Half Lives
500
This act, inspired by the Jungle, mandated regulation of the meat packing industry.
What is the Meat Inspection Act.
500
Double Jeopardy:
1. Progressive Presidents Wilson and Roosevelt both heavily supported this amendment.
2. What did this amendment do?
1. What is the sixteenth amendment.
2. Income tax
500
C - The United States gained direct access to additional natural resources and overseas markets.