Vocabulary
This means the right to vote.
What is suffrage?
This amendment created a national income tax.
What is the 16th Amendment?
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?
This is another name for the Progressive Party.
What is the Bull Moose Party?
What kind of pets do I have? How many?
2 kitties (Wednesday and S'more)
These are journalists who exposed corruption in cities during the Progressive Era.
What are muckrakers?
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.
What is the Pendleton Act?
This person was president after William Howard Taft.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This is political party that challenges the two major political parties usually because neither major party is meeting their needs
What is a third party?
African-American leader who promoted immediate equality and confounded the NAACP.
Who is W.E.B. Dubois?
This progressive era reform gave voters the ability to remove an elected official from office in a special election
What is a recall?
Law passed to protect the food and medicines Americans consumed.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
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?
The Grange movement eventually grew into this political party
This urban, Christian movement said people had a moral duty to help solve society's problems and to help people who are struggling.
What is the Social Gospel Movement?
This government reform allows citizens of a state to propose and pass a law without involving their state legislature
What is an initiative?
This states that the people can directly elect senators.
What is the 17th amendment?
This person was a Populist, famous for his "Cross of Gold Speech"
Who is William Jennings Bryan
The Populist party advocated for the free coinage of _______________.
What is silver?
This serves as a democratic mechanism that allows individuals to have a voice in choosing who represents their respective political parties BEFORE the general elections.
What is a direct primary?
This is another word for change.
What is reform?
This procedure allows the people to vote to approve or overturn an act of a state legislature or city council .
What is a referendum?
He worked as undercover muckraker in a meat-packing plant and wrote the book The Jungle.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
This is a political party representing the "common man" (factory workers/farmers/miners), supported government intervention in business; ran a 3rd party candidate in 1892 and in 1896 election supported Democrat William Jennings Bryan
What is the Populist Party?
Name 2 problems that farmers faced in the late 1800s.
Overproduction, natural disasters, indebtedness, high railroad rates