Progressive Reforms
The name for the period from the 1870s to the 1890s, suggesting problems lurking under the glamorous surface of American society.
What is the Gilded Age?
This president was a early and strong supporter of conservationism; his efforts led to the creation of the National Forest Service and 5 national parks
Who is Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt?
Term for people who worked for women's right to vote.
He advised African Americans to learn trades and seek to move up gradually in society, until they had enough money and status to demand equality.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
Term for neighborhoods formed by Mexican immigrants in an effort to preserve their language and culture.
What are barrios?
Progressives wanted to end this system of rewarding supporters with government jobs; it was replaced by the Civil Service Commission.
What is the Spoils System?
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This constitutional amendment, ratified in 1920, gave women the right to vote in all elections.
What is the 19th Amendment?
Term for the mob murder commonly committed against African Americans; claimed more than 1000 victims in the South during the 1890s
What is lynching?
School founded by Booker T. Washington in 1881 to provide African Americans with training in industrial and agricultural skills.
What is the Tuskegee Institute?
Crusading journalists who wanted to expose corruption and other problems.
Who are muckrakers?
President who lost Progressive support after he signed a bill raising tariffs and modified conservation policies.
Who is William Howard Taft?
Women played a leading role in the Temperance Movement, leading to the 18th Amendment and the enforcement of this in 1920.
What is prohibition?
First African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard; argued that blacks should fight discrimination rather than patiently submit to it.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
Election in which people may vote to remove an elected official from office.
What is a recall?
A type of election where voters select their party's candidate for the general election.
What is a primary?
Woodrow Wilson signed this act to regulate banking, creating a system of federal banks to control interest rates and the money supply
What is the Federal Reserve Act?
Very prominent figure in the early women's rights movement; along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, she formed the National Woman Suffrage Association.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
What is the Gentlemen's Agreement of 1907?
Method of taxation that taxes people at different rates depending in their income.
What is a graduated income tax?
1890 law prohibiting businesses from trying to limit or destroy competition; later used by the progressive presidents to break up monopolies like Standard Oil
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
Predecessor to the Progressive presidents; his assassination elevated Vice President Theodore Roosevelt to the presidency
Who is William McKinley?
Four states where women were allowed to vote in the late 1800s.
What are Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, and Idaho?
This organization was formed in 1909 to work for equal rights for African Americans.
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?
African American scientist who discovered hundreds of new uses for peanuts and other crops grown in the South.
Who is George Washington Carver?