Progressive Era

Journalism

100

Journalists who alerted the public to wrongdoings within business and government

Muckrakers

200

What book alerted the public to the horrible conditions in the meatpacking industry?

The Jungle

300

The Jungle was written by this author

Upton Sinclair

400

Who coined the term "muckrakers" to describe investigative journalists of this time?

Teddy Roosevelt

500

Which muckraker exposed abuses by the Standard Oil trust?

Ida Tarbell

Women and Voting

100

Women's right to vote is called this

suffrage

200

This is a non-violent refusal to obey a law in an effort to change that law

Civil Disobedience

300

This amendment granted women the right to vote

19th Amendment

400

This activist pushed for civil disobedience in letting women vote and was the leader of the National Woman’s Party 

Alice Paul, Lucy Paul

500

This event finally swung public favor towards letting women have the freedom to vote

WWI

Presidential Policies

100

He the last of the Progressive Presidents and entered the United States into World War 1

Woodrow Wilson

200

Teddy Roosevelt was best known for his __________ policies such as the creation of Yellowstone National Park

Conservationist

300

The Progressive party which was represented by Teddy Roosevelt in 1912 was also known as The ______________ Party

Bull Moose Party

400

Woodrow Wilson's plan for the United States to enforce antitrust laws without threatening free economics was called

New Freedom

500

How did President Teddy Roosevelt feel about trusts? 

Some were good, some were bad

Progressive Reform

100

One of the main goals of progressive was to provide ________ rights

Workers

200

This amendment resulted in the direct election of Senators

17th Amendment

300

When citizens vote on legislation that has already passed it is called a

Referendum

400

Citizens can use this process to propose new laws by obtaining a certain number of signatures

Initiative

500

This process gave citizens the power to remove elected officials from office

Recall

Miscellaneous

100

People who wanted to see change were called

Progressives

200

The policy of mass production and mass consumption made possible by the use of an assembly line was named after Henry Ford and known as what

Fordism

300

A fire at this women's clothing factory in NYC resulted in the death of 146 young immigrants and helped expose the lack of workers rights (fire escapes)

Triangle Shirtwaist Company

400

This amendment allowed the United States government to collect income taxes

17th Amendment

500

Labor strike in Massachusetts of 32, 000 workers where their children were sent to NYC to help expose the lack of steady wages the strikers were making

Bread & Roses Strike