People
He wrote On the Origin of Species.
Who is Charles Darwin?
The Square Deal
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
Exposed evils of meatpacking industry
Who is Upton Sinclair?
Name that describes people who say we cannot know whether there is a God
Who are agnostics?
The state that reformed so many parts of its government during the Progressive Era that its name was used to describe a whole package of such reform
What is Oregon?
Corrupt New York City political "boss"
Who is William Tweed?
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
Term that denotes journalists who exposed society's ills, including political corruption, personal misconduct by public officials, and poor working conditions.
What are muckrakers?
Piece of legislation that regulated both the additives in meat and other foods and the use of narcotics
What is Pure Food and Drug Act?
The legislative innovations that made state governments more democratic were initiative, referendum, and this.
What is recall?
Founder of Tuskegee Institute
Who is Booker T Washington?
Idealistic Democrat who became President
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
Name for the twelve district banks and their controlling organization that serve as bankers' banks.
What is the Federal Reserve System?
This term means the movement of people from rural areas to cities.
What is urbanization?
Progressives who looked for help in solving the problems of society generally turned to this.
What is government?
Scientist who found many new uses for peanuts
Who is George Washington Carver?
Ran as the 1908 Republican Presidential candidate when TR declined to run
Who is William Howard Taft?
Term for a wealthy person who donates large sums of money to charitable causes.
What is philanthropist?
The most popular American writer of the day
Who is Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain)?
Progressive Era amendments to the Constitution dealt with income tax, women's suffrage, and this.
What is prohibition?
Famous agnostic
Who is Robert Ingersoll?
Underwood Tariff
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
Appointed to help preserve America's forest resources
Who is Gifford Pinchot?
This law was passed to close some loopholes of the earlier Sherman Anti-trust Act.
What is the Clayton Anti-trust Act?
Three educational trends occurring in the United States near the turn of the century
What are larger numbers of free secondary schools, schools established for African-Americans, and colleges and universities founded with the support of philanthropists?