Presidents
He was called a trust buster.
Who was Theodore Roosevelt
Money paid to get someone to do something that is against the law.
What is a bribe?
This term refers to writers who exposed corruption.
Who were the muckrakers?
This amendment passed under President Taft, gave the government the power to tax income.
What was the Sixteenth Amendment?
This was the name for the Progressive party that ran Theodore Roosevelt as a third party candidate for president.
What was the "Bull Moose" party?
When he was assassinated, Theodore Roosevelt became president.
Who was William Mckinley?
An illegal payment of money made in return for a favor or service.
What is a kickback?
She exposed the corruption in the oil industry.
Who was Ida Tarbell?
This amendment to the Constitution said that US Senators would be directly elected by the voters.
What was the Seventeenth Amendment?
This man had a monopoly on the oil industry.
Who was John D. Rockefeller?
He was president after Theodore Roosevelt, supported the income tax and the direct election of US senators.
Who was William Howard Taft?
A political boss in New York, he was the subject of political cartoons by Thomas Nast.
Who was Boss Tweed?
He exposed unclean practices in the meat industry.
Who was Upton Sinclair?
This law or "Act" said that people who wanted certain government jobs had to pass a test.
What was the Civil Service Act?
This leader of big business wanted to control the railroad industry.
Who was Cornelius Vanderbilt?
He became president after William Howard Taft. He was a former president of Princeton University and governor of New Jersey.
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
He used cheap prices to force his competitors out of business in the oil industry.
Who was John D. Rockefeller?
He got Congress to pass laws the cleared rundown areas of cities and made factories safer.
Who was President Theodore Roosevelt?
This Constitutional Amendment established the voting rights for women.
What is the Nineteenth Amendment?
This age was a time when wealthy people lived very well and spent a great deal of money while many others were in poverty.
What is the "Gilded Age?"
He was shot by a man who was angry that this president had not given him a job.
Who was President James Garfield?
This industry was exposed by Upton Sinclair for its unsanitary practices and poor working conditions.
What was the meat packing industry?
A president, he supported laws to end price fixing and to protect the rights of unions and workers.
Who was President Woodrow Wilson?
During this era, in the making , selling and transporting of alcohol was made illegal.
What was Prohibition?
These people believed that the problems of society could be improved by working with government.
Who were the progressives?