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100
He tried to end the spoils system by investigating the custom house to find officials getting paid without doing any work. They were dismissed from office.
What important things did Rutherford B. Hayes do?
100
Patronage
Giving jobs to followers...
100
The right for all women to vote
What right did the Nineteenth Amendment guarantee?
100
Federal Trade Commission, they had the power to investigate companies and order them to stop using unfair practices to destroy competitors.
What does (FTC) stand for? What did they do?
100
Ida Tarbell
Name one Muckraker?
200
He wrote The Jungle He exposed the meat industry and how they were putting sick animals into the meat that people were eating.
What book did Upton Sinclair write? What was he trying to expose to the public?
200
Suffragists
People who worked for women’s right to vote...
200
Instead of being bribed by the officials, jobs were given to workers on a basis of merit, you had to pass the Civil service exam to be elected into the office or into the military.
What were the Civil Service exams and how did they change the job outcomes?
200
They worked for a constitutional amendment to give women the right to vote.
What did the National Women Suffrage Association work for?
200
Teddy Roosevelt
Who ,under the government, set aside about 194,000 acres for national parks?
300
He raised tariffs, fired important officials,and blocked conservation efforts.
Why did many people oppose Taft?
300
Mutualistas
Mutual aid groups who worked for the rights of Mexican Americans...
300
It was a deal made by Theodore Roosevelt. It was a deal that promised everybody from farmers to business owners to have the opportunity to succeed.
What was the Square Deal?
300
The National Association of Colored Women
What Association battled to end lynching and racial separation and worked for suffrage and other reforms ?
300
Robert La Follette
Name one Progressive?
400
She founded the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), she spoke against the use of alcohol,and worked to ban the sale of liquor and close saloons.
What did Frances Willard do for the women suffrage movement?
400
Trustbusters
A person who wanted to destroy all trusts...
400
It was a law that required food and drug makers to list ingredient lists on their products; it also tried to end false advertising and the use of impure ingredients.
What was The Pure Food and Drug Act?
400
They were many native american groups who tried to educate white americans about Indian life.
Who were the Society of American Indians and what did they do?
400
Set up the FTC Lowered tariffs Regulated banking Encouraged Competition
What was one of Woodrow Wilson’s Accomplishments?
500
He founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) which helped give higher paying jobs to African Americans and for equal rights.
What organization did W.E.B. Du Bois start and what was his goal for African Americans?
500
Recall
Allowed voters to remove an elected official from office
500
Roosevelt. Japan would stop anymore workers from going to the United States.The U.S, in exchange, would allow Japanese women to join their husbands who were already in the country.
Who reached a Gentlemen's Agreement with Japan? What was the agreement ?
500
They were a group of Roosevelt’s supporters who used to be Progressive republicans.
What was the Bull Moose Party?
500
Lynched.
In the 1890’s more than 1,000 African Americans were........?