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Progressive Era People
Progressive Era Reforms
Progressive Era Politics
Review
Vocabulary
100
Term for members of the press who exposed corruption
What is muckraker(s)?
100
Gave women the right to vote in 1920
What is the Nineteenth (19th) Amendment?
100

The two (2) Progressive Presidents

Who are Theodore Roosevelt, Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson?

100

Reduced tariff rates for the first time since the Civil War. 

What is the Underwood Tariff Act of 1913?

100
Term for women's right to vote
What is suffrage?
200
Author of The Jungle who exposed bad practices in the meatpacking industry
Who is Upton Sinclair?
200
Created in part due to Upton Sinclair (at least 1)
What are the Meat Inspection Act (1906) and the the Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)?
200

Roosevelt's slogan in 1904 election everyone deserves what

Square Deal

200

Immigrants came to America for (1 thing)

Land, freedom, opportunities, jobs

200
A ban on the making and selling of alcohol, later repealed by the 21st Amendment
What is prohibition (the 18th Amendment)?
300

Richest man alive- owned Standard Oil

John D. Rockerfeller

300

Progressive Political/Government Reforms (at least 2)

What are secret ballot, initiative, referendum, recall, direct party primaries, and direct election of senators (17th Amendment), Child labor laws, food laws, Income tax (16th), womens suffrage (18th)?

300

These were formed to organize workers and bargain for more rights and pay.

What are unions?

300

Another term for cities

What is Urban?

300

Someone who wanted to change the system and increase government involvement to improve lives

Progressive

400

Known for Dollar Diplomacy and being the true Trustbuster?

William Howard Taft

400

This allows the people to vote yes or no in a regular election to determine whether a law should be enacted or rejected

Referendum

400

Teddy Roosevelt loved to hunt, so he encouraged the creation of what.

National Parks

400

First trust busted.

What is Northern Securities Company?

400

A company that owns other companies

What is a Monopoly?

500

Wrote 'The Jungle'

Upton Sinclair

500

Formed by Du Bois in 1909 to fight discrimination and fight legal battles on behalf of blacks

NAACP-National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

500

Legalized a federal income tax, which provided revenue by taxing individual earnings and corporate profits. 

What is the Sixteenth Amendment?

500

The catalog the sold everything at the turn of the century.

Sears and Robuck

500

Teddy Roosevelt's square deal. (3 parts)

What is conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection?