This person is known for creating the Hull House, a settlement house that provided immigrants with resources to help them assimilate into American Society
Who is Jane Addams?
African-American leader who promoted immediate equality and confounded the NAACP.
W.E.B Dubois
The right to vote.
Suffrage
Journalists who exposed corruption in cities during the Progressive Era
Muckrakers
What is my rule about the bathroom.
Do not ask unless it is an EMERGENCY
What kind of pets do I have?
Cats
This government reform allows citizens of a state to propose and pass a law without involving their state legislature?
What is the initiative?
This person wrote the book "History of Standard Oil" which exposed the bad business practices of Rockefeller. This would eventually lead to the company being broken apart.
Who is Ida Tarbell?
During the Progressive Era, did the role of the federal government get bigger or smaller?
Bigger
This person was a Populist, famous for his "Cross of Gold Speech".
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
He worked as undercover muckraker in a meat-packing plant and wrote the book The Jungle.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
The Sherman Antitrust Act and the Clayton Antitrust Act were passed in an effort to
Maintain competition in business
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 act provided 160 acres of public land to citizens who lived on and improved the land for five years. It encouraged western migration and settlement.
The Homestead Act (1862)
When a business controls every aspect of an industry. This causes a lack of competition and raises prices for consumers.
Monopolies
Famous early 20th Century Activist that did the following: Led the American Railway Union, Ran for U.S. president five times as the Socialist Party nominee, and cofounded the IWW - the industrial works of the world.
Eugene Debs
This person was known for his work 'How the Other Half Lives', a series of photos that captured the suffering of the working class during the Gilded Age.
Who is Jacob Riis?
The _____ anti trust act was an attempt to break up monopolies but the language was too vague to inforce.
Sherman
This amendment created a national income tax.
What is the 16th Amendment?
This act dissolved tribal lands into individual plots for Native Americans, aiming to assimilate them into white American culture by promoting farming and private ownership.
Dawes Act
Serves as a democratic mechanism that allows individuals to have a voice in choosing who represents their respective political parties BEFORE the general elections.
Direct Primary
Federal Reserve
Name the President after Teddy Roosevelt.
Howard Taft
This businessman was involved in shipping and railroads. He helped build a University in Nashville TN
Cornelius Vanderbilt
This is the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.
What is nativism?
What law does this image refer to?
Chinese Exclusion Act
The 1st Progressive president. As president he passed laws improving the meat industry and went after monopolies.
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt
Initiatives, referendums, and recall elections were supported by the Progressives as ways to increase citizen participation in the
political process.
The Grange movement eventually grew into this political party?
Populist Party
This established a merit-based system for government employees, ending corrupt appointments. Applicants were required to pass civil service exams in order to qualify for jobs within the government.
The Pendleton Act
This person was the most famous political boss of the Gilded Age.
Who is Boss Tweed?
Law passed to protect the food and medicines Americans consumed.
The Pure Food and Drug Act
The urban, Christian movement said people had a moral duty to help solve society's problems and to help people who are struggling.
Social Gospel Movement
The manufacture, sale, and consumption of this became officially illegal in 1920.
What is alcohol?