The Drive For Reform
The social problem did Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle describe?
What are unclean working environments in meat processing facilities?
The term that means the right to vote.
What is Suffrage?
A group that denounced the idea of gradual racial progress and condemned the notion of teaching only trade skills.
What is the Niagara Movement?
______________ became President of the United States when William McKinley was assassinated.
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
gave Congress the power to create an income tax.
What is the 16th Amendment?
His loss in 1800 came about by a vote in the House of Representatives, not in the Electoral College.
Who is Aaron Burr?
If you don't vote in person on election day you voted via this type of ballot, whether by mail or early.
What is an Absentee Ballot?
The reform that resulted from the fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory.
What is Worker's Compensation?
The reform that the Nineteenth Amendment enacted.
What is Women's Suffrage?
W.E.B. Du Bois was an outspoken critic of this famous Black American.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
Theodore Roosevelt supported powerful corporations that did this.
What is fair business?
That party that Woodrow Wilson represented in the 1912 presidential election.
What is the Democrat Party?
In 1916, Woodrow Wilson could not take this Northeastern state for granted winning the election by only 56 votes, beating Charles Evans Hughes.
What is New Hampshire?
Many state officers can be removed by this type of election, the folks that wanted it in the constitution lost out.
What is a Recall?
This is the type of conditions Industrial workers often worked in.
What are unclean, unsafe, and long hour work conditions?
The woman who founded the National Association of Colored Women to help African American families and those who were less fortunate and personally battled against lynching.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
The event that led to the formation of the NAACP.
What is the 1908 Springfield Riot?
The concept of "rational use" suggested that . . .
What is forests should be preserved for public use?
Wilson tried to protect and help workers by . . .
What is lowering import tariffs and making products cheaper for everyone.
Coming up short by 537 votes ended the hope for winning the election for this 2000 candidate in Florida
Who is Al Gore?
The type of informal to test political sentiment may take it names from plant stalks tossed up to gauge wind direction?
What is a Straw Poll?
A (n) _________ is an election in which citizens vote to select nominees for upcoming elections.
What is a direct primary?
The NWP and NAWSA primarily differed on this particular topic.
What are strategies to obtain rights?
The group formed the Anti-Defamation League to defend itself against verbal attacks and false statements.
Who are Jewish Americans?
The National Reclamation Act directly affected the management of this natural resource.
What is water?
The main reason the United States banking system need to be reformed in the early 1900s.
What is they federal government had no central authority or right to supervise banks?
Vying for Reelection in the 80s, he did not treat his Minnesota opponent nicely beating him 525 to 13 in the electoral college.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
Abbreviated RCV, this type of vote allows the rating of candidates by graded preference to avoid run-off elections.
What is Ranked Choice Voting?
Many Progressive reformers targeted city officials who built corrupt organizations and government known as this.
What is a political machine?
The 1903 Muller v. Oregon decision upheld this decision.
What are limited work hours for women?
The 1913 California law forced Japanese Americans to.
What is sell their land?
Under President William Howard Taft, the federal government did this.
What is brought many lawsuits against corporations?
The main purpose of the Adamson act.
What is to prevent a nationwide railroad strike?
Andrew Jackson won the election's electoral vote in 1824 but failing to achieve 51% of the electoral vote ended in a corrupt bargain that made this man the next president of the United States.
Who is John Quincy Adams?
Formally the Progressive Party, it got 27% of the vote in 1912 and even won California by 174 votes rebranded itself to this.
What is the Bull-Moose Party?