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100
The assassination of President McKinley amid his second term brought this spirited, progressive vice president into office. This man soon became known as the Progressive's president as he worked on issues ranging from labor disputes to land conservation.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
100
This group, which was established in 1905 following a meeting led by W.E.B. Du Bois in Niagara Falls, joined forces with other concerned African Americans and whites to form the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) on February 12, 1908.
What is the Niagara movement?
100
This book, written by Upton Sinclair, was considered by President Roosevelt as a prime example of muckraking. The book, which was written to expose the filthy conditions in which several meatpacking plants were churning out their products, had the nation in a virtual panic.
What is The Jungle?
100
This is the term, originally used by Theodore Roosevelt, for authors and journalists who wrote articles, essays, and books aimed at exposing scandal, corruption, and injustice. Despite the negative name, these writers were successful in gaining an audience and stirring up concerns among their readers. Magazines such as McClure's and Collier's were the first weapons of these writers.
What are muckrakers?
100
This amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1913, authorized the federal government to collect income tax.
What is the Sixteenth Amendment?
200
This woman founded Hull House, a settlement house, in Chicago in 1889. She became active through volunteerism because she could not become involved in the political process.
Who is Jane Addams?
200
This act, passed by Congress in 1913, created the Federal Reserve System.
What is the Federal Reserve Act?
200
This is teh most famous of all the settlement houses. The goal of its founder, Jane Addams, was to invite the immigrants and the poor to live among college-educated people to teach them how to manage city life.
What is Hull House?
200
This was the name of Theodore Roosevelt's volunteer force of college students, cowboys, and adventurers who were able to take San Juan Hill in Cuba with the heavy assistance of the Fourteenth Regiment Colored Calvary.
What are the Rough Riders?
200
This factory was housed in the top floors of the Asch building in New York City, where women, some as young as 15 years old, were crammed in to work. One nigh in 1911, just before closing, a fire broke out on the ninth floor. With no way to escape, many of the young women died in the building while other jumped from windows to the pavement below.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory?
300
This photojournalist showed the conditions of New York's tenements in Hell's Kitchen. He also shocked the nation with his book How the Other Half Lives, published in 1890.
Who is Jacob Riis?
300
This act of 1906 allowed the Interstate Commerce Commission to regulate the price level of shipping rates railroad lines could charge, ending the long-haul/short-haul price gouging that had been the bane of farmers.
What is Hepburn Act?
300
This act replaced the old Sherman Act of 1890 as the nation's basic antitrust law. It exempted unions from being construed as illegal combinations in restraint of trade, and it forbade federal courts form issuing injunctions against strikers.
What is the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914?
300
This time frame began with the swearing in of Theodore Roosevelt in 1901 and lasted until the beginning of U.S. involvement in the Great War in 1917. The group that dominated this time frame were largely white, middle-class Protestants who hoped to better society and preserve the lifestyle they were accustomed to living.
What is the Progressive Era?
300
This group was formed by the Niagara Movement and other concerned African Americans and whites on February 12, 1908. Originally called the National Negro Committee, founding members W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida Wells-Barnett, Henry Moscowitz, Mary White Ovington, Oswald Garrison Villiard and William English Walling answered what they deemed the "call" to end all racial discrimination, segregation, and disenfranchisement.
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?
400
This man was governor of Wisconsin and later became a U.S. Senator. Under his leadership, Wisconsin became the model for increased voter power at the ballot box.
Who is Robert La Follette?
400
In response to Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, which exposed the filthy conditions in which several meatpacking plants were churning out their products, President Roosevelt worked to get this act and the Meat Inspection Act passed in 1906.
What is the Food and Drug Act?
400
This amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1913, meant that voters, not that state legislature, elected U.S. senators.
What is the Seventeenth Amendment?
400
This view, promoted by Booker T. Washington, meant that blacks needed to make themselves successful economically before they could hope to become equal to whites.
What is accommodation?
400
This commission was a government agency established in 1914 to provide regulatory oversight of business activity.
What is Federal Trade Commission (FTC)?
500
This man rose to prominence during the late 1890s and argued that African Americans needed the skills necessary to work within the white world. In essence, he claimed that blacks needed to make themselves successful economically before they could hope to become equal whites.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
500
President Roosevelt worked to get this act and the Food and Drug Act passed in 1906.
What is the Meat Inspection Act?
500
This was the ban on the production, sale, and consumption of liquor, achieved temporarily through state laws and the Eighteenth Amendment.
What is prohibition?
500
These things were meant to increase the power of the voter in state and local politics. The first allowed voters to propose a law without the legislature; the second was the way in which voter-proposed laws were placed on the ballot; and the last allowed voters to remove an elected official from office through the ballot box.
What is initiative, referendum, and recall?
500
This was Woodrow Wilson's program, established in 1912, for government intervention in the economy to restore competition by curtailing the restrictive influences of trusts and protective tariffs, thereby providing opportunities for individual achievement.
What is New Freedom?