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Seeking Justice
100
This group of writers, including the likes of Upton Sinclair, Lincoln Steffens, and Ida Tarbell, during the Progressive era who tried to expose the problems that existed in American society as a result of the rise of big business, urbanization, and immigration.
Who were muckrakers
100
Before he started the Bull Moose Party, this man was a Republican President of the United States, Vice President, Secretary of the Navy, Governor of New York and various other jobs.
Who was Theodore Roosevelt
100
The laws were designed to eliminate monopolies in the United States.
What are the Sherman and/or Clayton Anti-Trust Acts
100
This President was assassinated in Washington D.C. because he did not give his assassin a patronage job.
Who was James Garfield
100
In was part the the country did women first earn the right to vote?
What is the west?
200
This is when programs and laws are set up to protect the enviroment
What is conservation
200
He won the 1912 election after Teddy Roosevelt and Howard Taft split the Republican votes.
Who was Woodrow Wilson
200
After the publication of The Jungle, the government created the FDA. What does FDA stand for?
What is the Food and Drug Administration
200
He was the corrupt leader of the Democrat Party in New York and the leader of Tammany Hall. He stole millions of dollars from NYC.
Who is Boss Tweed
200
This was the name of one of the largest gatherings in support of women's suffrage. The event was in 1848 in upstate New York.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention
300
When President Roosevelt and President Taft broke up trusts they became known as _______________.
What are trustbusters
300
This Republican President came after Teddy Roosevelt and was know as being a "Trust Buster."
Who was William Taft
300
Why did Boss Tweed dislike cartoons more than articles written about him?
What is because most of his supporters could not read but understood the messages in cartoons.
300
What does the "spoils system" mean?
Answer may vary
300
This man believed that African Americans should focus on occupational training, making money and earning good jobs rather than focusing their efforts on legal equality.
Who was Booker T. Washington
400
Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, were all instrumental in supporting the cause of women's suffrage. What does "suffrage" mean?
What is "the right to vote"
400
This person exposed the horrors of the meatpacking industry in his piece The Jungle.
Who was Upton Sinclair
400
This was the name of Teddy Roosevelt plan that government was responsible to make sure that the consumer, employee and employer were all treated fairly.
What was the Square Deal
400
How did the Civil Service exam fix some of the corrupt practices in government?
Answers may vary
400
This man believed that African Americans needed to focus on immediate legal equality.
Who was W.E.B. du Bois
500
These 12 banks provide money and loans to other local banks.
What are the Federal Reserve banks
500
She exposed the unfair business practices of John D. Rockefeller's company Standard Oil and is partly responsible for seeing the company forced to breakup.
Ida Tarbell
500
The 18th Amendment is known as the "Temperance Amendment" and was overwhelmingly supported by women. What did the 18th amendment do?
What is it banned the sale and consumption of alcohol.
500
What was the nickname of Boss Tweed's political machine?
What is Tammany Hall
500
This was the name of the Supreme Court case that stated, "separate but equal services is constitutional" and essentially legalized segregation in society.
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896)
