This event claimed the lives of 146 people and forced companies to make working conditions safer.
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
African-American leader who promoted immediate equality and helped found the NAACP
W.E.B Dubois
The right to vote.
Suffrage
Journalists who exposed corruption in cities during the Progressive Era
Muckrakers
This was the practice of giving government jobs to people who supported you
Spoils System
What message is being conveyed by this cartoon?
The wealthy were dependent on the labor of the working class.
This government reform allows citizens of a state to propose and pass a law without involving their state legislature?
What is the initiative?
Civil Rights who believed whites and blacks should live separate social lives to achieve equality
Booker T Washington
During the Progressive Era, did the role of the federal government get bigger or smaller?
Bigger
This amendment allowed citizens to directly vote for their US Senator
17th
This amendment gave US women the right to vote
19th
This allowed unhappy voters to remove an official from office before the end of their term
Recall
Name the President after TAFT.
Woodrow Wilson
The era that brought many changes and reforms to American society
progressive era
President Teddy Roosevelt's 3 major goals for America was called ______ deal.
Square
This amendment banned alcohol in the U.S.
18th
What is the belief in private businesses running most industries and competition determines the price of goods
Capitalism
What state was the first to pass minimum wage laws?
What was the name of NYC's political machine?
What is the Tammany Hall?
What was a system in which the government owns and operates a country's means of production
Socialism
The Amendment that gave women the right to vote.
19th Amendment
The Supreme Court ruled that women could only work 10 hour days.
What is Mueller v. Oregon?
What were some examples of election fraud?
Stuffing ballots, voting twice, bribing or intimidating voters
Elizabeth Cady and Susan B Anthony founded the...
National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
Name the President after Teddy Roosevelt.
Howard Taft
What guaranteed a portion of lost wages of workers injured on the job?
Workers Compensation Laws
What were the 3 C's of Roosevelt's Presidency?
Control corporations
Consumer protection
Conservation
Upton Sinclair The Jungle focused on exposing what?
The horrible conditions of meat packing industry
What were the 3 new professions that helped improve society?
City planners, civil engineers, sanitation engineers
This permitted voters to approve or reject a law that had already been proposed or passed
This amendment of the US Constitution imposed a direct tax on citizens' income
16th
Muckrackers reported on the muck or filth of society. the 4 examples given in class were...
1. Child labor
2. Discrimination
3. Living Conditions
4. Political corruption
What led to Woodrow Wilson becoming president in 1912?
Law passed to protect the food and medicines Americans consumed.
The Pure Food and Drug Act
When a federal child labor law was passed that banned products being traded from one state to another was deemed unconstitutional because it infringed on the national government's power in...
Interstate Commerce
She wrote articles about unfair treatment of African Americans and anti-lynching
Ida Wells