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100

Who was the muckraker and journalist who broke up the Standard Oil Trust?

Ida Tarbell

100

African-American leader who promoted immediate equality and started the NAACP.

W.E.B Dubois

100

The right to vote.

Suffrage

100

Journalists who exposed corruption in cities during the Progressive Era

Muckrakers

100

Which president used "Dollar Diplomacy" to deal with other nations?

Taft

100

What message is being conveyed by this cartoon?

The wealthy were dependent on the labor and exploitation of the working class.

200

This government reform allows citizens of a state to propose and pass a law without involving their state legislature?

What is the initiative?

200

Civil Rights leader to started Tuskegee Institute. Believed that African Americans would gain equality through vocational education.



Booker T Washington

200

During the Progressive Era, did the role of the federal government get bigger or smaller?

Bigger

200

Teddy Roosevelt's policy for relationships with other nations was called __________ diplomacy.

Big Stick

200

He worked as an undercover muckraker in a meat-packing plant and wrote the book The Jungle.



Who is Upton Sinclair?

200

What did the civil service commission do?

Required that government jobs be given out based on merit (an exam).

300

Name the President after Theodore Roosevelt.

William Howard Taft

300

The era that brought many changes and reforms to American society

progressive era

300

President Teddy Roosevelt's 3 major goals for America was called ______ deal (Hint: It benefitted four different groups of people).

Square

300

Which amendment started the income tax?

16th

300

When a business controls every aspect of an industry. This causes a lack of competition and raises prices for consumers. 

Monopolies

300

Name two major geographical obstacles to the construction of the Panama Canal.

Mountains, hills, jungles/forests, elevation change, mosquitoes causing disease, etc.

400

What did referendum do?

Allowed voters to accept or reject laws based on a vote.

400

The _____ anti trust act was an attempt to break up monopolies but the language was too vague to inforce.

Sherman

400

The Amendment that gave women the right to vote.

19th Amendment

400

Who was the muckraker who photographed tenement living conditions and wrote How the Other Half Lives?

Jacob Riis

400

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 

400

Which muckraker photographed child labor in action and encouraged the passage of laws banning the practice?

Lewis Hine

500

Name the President after Teddy Roosevelt. 

Howard Taft

500

This businessman was involved in shipping and railroads. He helped build a University in Nashville TN

Cornelius Vanderbilt

500
Who is the muckraker that wrote political cartoons? Largely about William "Boss" Tweed.

Thomas Nast (He was helped by lawyer Samuel Tilden).

500

What law does this image refer to?

Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

500

The 1st Progressive president. As president he passed laws improving the meat industry and went after monopolies. 

Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt

500

Initiatives, referendums, and recall elections were supported by the Progressives as ways to increase citizen participation in the

political process.

600

The political party that primarily represented farmers and laborers.

Populist Party

600

Reform leader Jane Addams started settlement houses in Chicago with the Hull House, what was the primary purpose of these settlement houses?

To assimilate and help poor immigrants.

600

What was the primary objective of reform leader Susan B Anthony?

To give women the right to vote (suffrage).

600

Law passed to protect the food and medicines Americans consumed.

The Pure Food and Drug Act

600

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

600

The manufacture, sale, and consumption of alcohol became officially illegal in 1920 with which amendment?

The 18th Amendment