The Progressive Movement
Illegal payments, for example, a contractor would add to the amount of a bill for city work, then pay a percentage of that amount to corrupt politicians.
What is a kickback?
This state, in 1869, was the first state that allowed women to vote.
What is Wyoming?
This president, who succeeded Teddy, continued many of Roosevelt's policies.
Who is Taft?
This group, reborn in Georgia in 1915, wanted to restore white, Protestant America. They lashed out against Catholics, Jews, immigrants, and African-Americans.
Who is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
Settling a dispute by agreeing to accept the decision of a neutral outsider.
What is arbitration?
Prior to the passage of this amendment, state legislatures chose people to be senators.
What is the 17th Amendment?
Women and men who fought for a women's right to vote were called this.
What are suffragists?
Roosevelt ran for president in 1904 promising the people fair and equal treatment in a plan he called this.
What is a Square Deal?
Dr. Carlos Montezuma believed that these people should make their own way in white society.
Who are Native Americans?
Journalists who helped progressives by exposing injustices were called this.
What are muckrakers?
This 1883 law established the Civil Service Commission to give examinations for federal jobs.
What is the Pendleton Act?
Along with the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), this woman supported prohibition of alcohol.
Who was Frances Willard?
In the election of 1912, while Taft and Roosevelt split the Republican Party, this Democrat, a progressive reformer and former governor of New Jersey, gathered enough support to win the election.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This man helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
Who was W.E.B. DuBois?
This process allowed citizens to PLACE a measure or an issue on the ballot in a state election.
What is an initiative?
This act required railroads to charge and publish "reasonable and just rates."
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
She was the founder and first president of the National Association of Colored Women.
Who was Mary Church Terrell?
The 1914 act was one of the government's chief weapons used against trusts.
What is the Clayton Antitrust Act?
What is the Tuskegee Institute?
This allowed voters to remove unsatisfactory elected officials from their jobs.
What is a recall?
Robert LaFollette introduced the "Wisconsin idea," where candidates were chosen by voters instead of by party bosses in elections known as these, that are still used today.
What are primary elections?
Muckraker with McClure's Magazine who described the oil trust's unfair practices.
Who is Ida Tarbell?
This act regulated banking by creating 12 regional banks supervised by a central board in Washington D.C. One of the regional banks is located here in Chicago.
What is the Federal Reserve Act?
This landmark Supreme Court decision legalized segregation in 1896, recognizing 'separate but equal' facilities for blacks and whites.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This allowed voters to ACCEPT or REJECT measures that the state legislature enacted.
What is a referendum?