President James ____________ was assassinated by Charles Guiteau in 1888.
Garfield
100
Most city political positions were run by men called _______ which controlled every aspect of city improvement.
Bosses
100
William McKinley chose a man they called “TR,” or ___________ _____________ as his running mate in 1900.
Theodore Roosevelt
100
__________ was the first state to give women the right to vote. “We will join the Union with our women.”
Wyoming
100
In the 1890s, over 1,000 blacks were killed by _________, which was illegal hanging.
Lynching
200
Guiteau was upset at the spoils system. Giving job to loyal supporters is called ___________. It was at every level.
Patronage
200
Jacob Riis was a photographer who showed the horrors of slum life, he was one of many ______________, people who exposed the corruption and dishonesty.
Muckrakers
200
TR ran for president in 1904 and promised everybody a __________ __________.
Square Deal
200
A female supporter of giving women the right to vote was called a _____________.
Suffragette or suffragist
200
With the _______Act, Natives were given 160 acres of land. They were swindled out of millions of acres of land.
Dawes
300
Rutherford B. Hayes tried to stop the system, Garfield too called for reform of the ______ ___________ (post office, traffic cop, firefighters, city officials).
civil services
300
A man named Upton Sinclair wrote a book called The ________ which revealed the muck of the meat industry.
The book showed that rats and poison went into sausage. “I aimed at the public’s heart and by accident, I hit in the stomach." was a quote from Sinclair about the uproar.
Jungle
300
TR had read The Jungle and heard about the drug companies false claims. He passed the ¬_________ ________ and __________ Act in 1906 which required all ingredients to be listed and inspected.
Pure Food and Drug
300
In 1877, Boston University granted the first _______ to a woman.
Ph. D.
300
The Mexicans created their own neighborhoods called _________. Their culture and language remained.
Barrios
400
This also set up the _____________ ______________ ____________ (ICC) which was to oversee the railroads.
Interstate Commerce Commission
400
Among the leading Progressives was “Battling Bob” Robert __ ______, governor of Wisconsin.
La Folette
400
The Democrats nominated a southern Progressive named _________ __________. He won the election of 1912.
Woodrow Wilson
400
One temperance crusader was Frances Willard, another Carry _________swung her hatchet in bars and saloons.
Nation
400
Another African American, George ____________ ________, invented peanut butter!
Washington Carver
500
It was in 1890 when President Benjamin Harrison signed the ____________ _______-______ Act. Progress was being made.
Sherman Anti-Trust
500
The government gave the ________ more powers in the form of the primary, initiative, referendum, and recall.
Voters
500
TR beat JP Morgan's trust, Northern Securities, and also won against Standard Oil and American Tobacco Company. He became known as the ______________.
Trustbuster
500
In 1874, a group of women founded the Women’s Christian ________ Union which campaigned against alcohol.
Temperance
500
With the Chinese excluded, Americans turned to Filipinos and ___________workers. Most were farmers.