Western Frontier
The new animal introduced by the Spanish that revolutionized the lives of the Plains Indians?
What is the Goddog or horse?
The leader who first called the Progressive journalists and investigative reporters "muckrakers" because he/she believed they were too focused on the dirt or the misdeeds of politicians and businesses.
Who is Teddy Roosevelt
Before they became a political movement, they began as a social club.
The Grange or Grangers.
Gave freed slaves the right to vote?
15th Amendment
He was the first US president to begin actively regulating business with the Sherman Anti-trust Act and Hepburn Act.
Who is Teddy Roosevelt
The thesis/theory that suggested that most of America's values had come out of its frontier experience and that after mastering new European colonist, the wilderness was transformed by the colonists who were gradually Americanized in the process.
Frederick Jackson Turner's Frontier Thesis
This activist wrote syndicated articles in McClures Magazine that ultimately brought John D. Rockefeller's unfair business practices to public light and increasing government scrutiny.
Who is Ida Tarbell?
When Granges were organized at the state level and began to enact legislation regulating railroad companies they were called?
Farmers' Alliances
Prohibited the sale and manufacture of alcohol
18th Amendment
The economic model preferred by the post-Civil War and Reconstruction generation who thought the Federal Government had become too powerful.
What is Laissez-faire Capitalism
The land incentive that encouraged Illinois farmers to start moving West to set up their own farms in the Plains region.
What is the 1862 Homestead Act
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle was responsible for bringing this piece of legislation into being.
What is the Meat Inspection Act OR Pure Food and Drug Act...
As a Democrat who embraced their party, William Jennings Bryan supported many of this former party's policies, including Free Silver.
The People's Party or Populist Party
Gave women the right to vote
19th Amendment
When a captain of industry buys up all the competing companies in his industry that make the same good or service, thus creating a monopoly over that industry.
What is horizontal integration
The true champion or groups that ultimately helped win or settle the West? (2)
Big business and the Federal government
The Muckraker who brought down Boss Tweed's urban machine in New York City.
Who is Thomas Nast?
The three tools of direct democracy introduced by progressives to help ensure that the interests of individual voters were being represented by their state legislatures.
What were the referendum, the initiative, and the recall.
Initiated a graduated income tax.
16th
The original purpose of both the Interstate Commerce Commission and Sherman Anti-trust Act?
Ban unfair competition, like rebates and drawbacks, in the railroad business.
The last U.S. policy introduced to help resolve "the North American Indian problem" that divided up the reservations into smaller plots of land and kidnapped young natives from their tribes to be Americanized in government boarding schools.
The Dawes-Severalty Act OR Dawes Plan.
This was the most successful Progressive social reform.
What is Jane Adam's Settlement House Movement?
The Progressive who introduced the state regulatory agencies or "Wisconsin idea" to help state governments successfully curb the excessive power of large railroad, insurance and banking corporations within their states by ensuring their official and citizens received the best possible education.
Who is Bob LaFollette?
Gave the people the power to directly elect their national senators.
17th Amendment
The Republican Senator and chairman of the Republican national committee who served as the campaign manager for Republican nominee William McKinley's presidential campaign and raised over $16 million for the race?
Who is Mark Hanna?