He believed African Americans should earn equality with white people.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
100
Giving jobs to people because they supported you politically or donated money to your campaign.
What is patronage?
100
Roosevelt's nickname, because he tried to break up monopolies.
What is 'trust buster'?
100
Term for a journalist who writes with the purpose of exposing problems within society.
What is a muckraker?
100
Name for people fighting for womens suffrage.
Who were suffragists (or suffragettes)?
200
He believed that African Americans deserved equality with white people, and should get it immediately without having to prove themselves.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
200
Allowing the people to vote for which candidate they want to represent the party, rather than letting party leaders choose.
What is a primary?
200
Law that established the federal government's right to supervise railroad activities.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
200
Book written about the meat packing industry.
What is The Jungle?
200
The right to vote.
What is suffrage?
300
He proposed the "Square Deal" with the American people.
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
300
Allowing voters to propose laws.
What is an initiative?
300
5 person committee who supervise the actions of railroads and tried to rid railroads of some of their unsavory business practices.
What is the Interstate Commerce Commission?
300
Author of "The Jungle".
Who is Upton Sinclair?
300
Hispanic neighborhood. (Spanish word for neighborhood)
What is a barrio?
400
He was the president that led after Roosevelt, who did such a bad job that Roosevelt came back from safari and tried to run for president again.
Who is William Howard Taft?
400
Allowing voters to vote for a law, rather than having Congress decide.
What is a referendum?
400
Law intended to prevent the creation of monopolies by making it illegal to establish trusts that interfered with free trade?
What is Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
400
Name of the (female) author who wrote a book about John D. Rockefeller's oil monopoly.
Who is Ida Tarbell?
400
Section of land protected by the federal government.
What is a National Park?
500
He won the election of 1912 because of the split in the Republican party.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
500
The ability to remove a politician from office if they aren't doing a good job.
What is recall?
500
Watchdog agency that investigated regulatory violations, required periodic reports from corporations, and ended unfair business practices. Started during Wilson presidency.
What is the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)?
500
Name of Ida Tarbell's book about Rockefeller's oil company.
What is "History of the Standard Oil Company"?
500
Mutual aid groups formed by Mexicans in response to nativist actions.