Laws N such
Words to know
Progressive Executives
Movers and Shakers
'Amend' your ways
100
Law passed to protect the food and medicines Americans consumed.
The Pure Food and Drug Act
100
Support for or advocacy of social reform.
progressivism or progressive
100
2nd of the 'Progressive Era' Presidents
William H. Taft
100
Journalists who exposed corruption in cities during the Progressive Era
Muckrakers
100
The 18th amendment banned the sale/manufacture/distribution of what good in the US?
alcohol
200
What law does this image refer to?
Chinese Exclusion Act
200
When a business controls every/most aspect of an industry. This causes a lack of competition.
Monopolies
200
As president, he passed laws improving the meat industry and went after monopolies.
Theodore Roosevelt
200
Civil Rights leader who started the Tuskegee Institute. Taught students to make bricks and other trade crafts.
Booker T. Washington
200
The 19th Amendment finally acknowledged the lacking rights of a particular group and did what?
Women's suffrage (right to vote)
300
This government reform allows citizens to oust an elected official before their term has ended
Recall (election)
300
The right to vote.
Suffrage
300
Which president used "Dollar Diplomacy" to deal with other nations?
William H. Taft
300
African-American leader who promoted immediate equality.
W.E.B Dubois
300
the 17th Amendment allowed for voters to do this (increasing direct democracy in the US)
Direct election of Senators
400
This government reform allows citizens of a state to propose and pass a law without involving their state legislature
The initiative
400
Forbidding something, especially by law.
Prohibition
400
President Theodore Roosevelt's 3 major goals for America was collectively called the ______ Deal.
Square
400
He worked as an undercover muckraker in a meat-packing plant and wrote the book The Jungle.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
400
The 16th amendment gave Congress the ability to do what in order to raise revenue in the US?
tax income
500
The _____ Antitrust Act was an attempt to break up monopolies, but the language was too vague to enforce.
Sherman
500
Principle or practice of submitting to popular vote a measure passed on or proposed by a legislative body or by popular initiative
Referendum
500
He won the election of 1912 because the Republican party split and had a major third party option.
Woodrow Wilson
500
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 workers of the world.
Eugene Debs
500
This group(s) pushed specifically for the passage of the 18th amendment.
WCTU (Women's Christian Temperance Union) & Anti-Saloon League (will take either as correct)