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This political party grew out of a large mood of agrarian unrest in response to low agricultural prices in the South and the trans-Mississippi West and quickly faded away after the 1896 election.
What is the Populist Party?
100
This amendment was passed in 1920 and gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
100
This movement was a response to the vast changes brought by industrialization, such as the growth of large corporations and railroads, and fears of corruption in American politics.
What is the Progressive Era/Movement?
100
A voting method in which a voter's choices in an election or a referendum are anonymous, which prevents any attempt to influence the voter by intimidation or bribery.
What is a Secret ballot?
100
The most famous work of muckraking fiction, exposed terrible health and labor conditions in meat-packing plants.
What is The Jungle?
200
This was a settlement house in the United States that was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. Located in the Near West Side of Chicago, Illinois, opened its doors to recently arrived European immigrants.
What is the Hull House?
200
This amendment allows Congress to tax personal income.
What is the 16th Amendment?
200
Reform-minded journalists who wrote largely for popular magazines and continued a tradition of investigative journalism reporting; they often worked to expose social ills and corporate and political corruption.
What is a muckraker?
200
A procedure that allows citizens to remove and replace a public official before the end of a term of office.
What is a recall?
200
This law was an attempt to curb corruption and patronage, the act introduced federal exams and merit requirements for the hiring of civil servants.
What is the Pendleton Civil Service Act (1883)?
300
This was an early publication of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s.
What is How the other Half Lives?
300
This Amendment gave citizens the right to directly elect their State senators to the United States Congress.
What is the 17th Amendment?
300
This Supreme Court case allowed states to regulate certain businesses within their borders, including railroads, and was an important case in the struggle for public regulation of private enterprise.
What is Munn v. Illinois?
300
This term is a process that enables citizens to bypass their state legislature by placing proposed statutes and, in some states, constitutional amendments on the ballot.
What is Initiative?
300
Under pressure from small businesses and farmers, Congress passed this law, which created the Interstate Commerce Commission, the first federal regulatory commission.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act (1887)?
400
The first women's rights convention that advertised itself as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman".
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
400
A United States Congress Act that works to prevent adulterated or misbranded meat and meat products from being sold as food and to ensure that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions.
What is the Meat Inspection Act, 1906?
400
President Theodore Roosevelt's domestic program formed upon three basic ideas: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection.
What is the Square Deal?
400
This is a general term which refers to a measure that appears on the ballot.
What is a referendum?
400
President Theodore Roosevelt became the first president to intervene on the side of workers in the 1902 labor dispute.
What is the Coal Mine Strike (1902)?
500
One of the most famous speeches in U.S. history that was delivered by William Jennings Bryan in 1896.
What is the Cross of Gold Speech?
500
This movement applied Christian ethics to social problems, especially issues of social justice such as economic inequality, poverty, alcoholism, crime, racial tensions, slums, unclean environment, child labor, inadequate labor unions, poor schools, and the danger of war.
What is the Social Gospel movement?
500
President Woodrow Wilson's domestic policy that focused on three types of reform: tariff reform, business reform and banking reform.
What is New Freedom?
500
An organization in the United States that encourages families to band together to promote the economic and political well-being of the community and agriculture.
What is the Grange movement?
500
This legislation created the Federal Reserve System to serve as the nation’s central bank.
What is the Federal Reserve Act (1913)?