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*Daily Double* This Constitutional Amendment took women out of the kitchens and gave them the right to vote.
What is 19th Amendment?
100
These were writers who would dig deep through the muck and grime of society to expose corruption.
What are muckrakers?
100
The Meat Inspection Act was brought about thanks to this book by Upton Sinclair.
What is The Jungle?
100
The period when America was trying to reform society by allowing the U.S. government more power to regulate private businesses, expand social welfare programs, protect citizens and workers, give Americans a greater voice in government, and correct social injustices.
What is Progressive Era?
100
He was the first Progressive President, known for trust-busting and the conservation of nature.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
200
This law was passed because Theodore Roosevelt read "The Jungle" and he realized changes needed to be made.
What is the Meat Inspection Act?
200
This word means to get the right to vote..
What is suffrage?
200
This Act made it so that all processed food, and drugs had to be inspected and labeled.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
200
This civil rights group that was started by W.E.B. DuBois after the Niagra Movement and is still fighting for the advancement of colored people today?
What is NAACP?
200
She was a leader of the women's rights movement and was arrested several times for attempting to vote.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
300
this Constitutional Amendment lead to the direct election of state Senators.
What is 17th Amendment?
300
This reform gave voters the power to remove an elected official from office
What is recall?
300
This was Wilson's greatest achievement towards economic stability, and is used to regulate the amount of money in the economy and set up a national bank.
What is the Federal Reserve Act?
300
This Progressive President, although he was less flashy than Roosevelt, busted twice as many trusts?
Who is William Howard Taft?
300
She was an anti-lynching activist who traveled around the world telling people about this brutality.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
400
This Amendment set up the income tax that American citizens have to pay
What is 16th Amendment?
400
This third party nominated Theodore Roosevelt for President in 1912 and split the vote with Republican candidate Taft, allowing Woodrow Wilson to win presidency.
What is the Bull Moose Party (Progressive Party)?
400
This was one of the original settlement houses in Chicago, that was created by Jane Addams.
What is Hull House?
400
This governmental policy came as a result of Roosevelt's belief in conservation?
What is the National Park Service?
400
He was a photographer who traveled around the country taking pictures of child labor.
Who is Lewis Hine?
500
This was the first law in U.S. history that attempted to regulate private business
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
500
These laws passed by Roosevelt worked to dissolve monopolies and trusts?
What are the Anti-Trust Acts (Sherman and Clayton)?
500
This political group was made up of farmers who wanted regulation of business and the silver standard.
What is the Populist Party?
500
This reform allows a voter to reject or accept a law.
What is referendum?
500
She was part of this temperance movement which sought to prohibit alcohol from being consumed in the United States?
Who is Frances Willard?