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What was the Progressive Era?
A period of time in America when reformers attempted to make society better.
Who was the muckraker that targeted political corruptions with his political cartoons of William ‘Boss’ Tweed?
Thomas Nast
Direct primary
Voters, rather than party conventions, choose candidates to run for office.
Who were the progressives who worked for women’s right to vote?
Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Carrie Chapman Catt
What is the forced separation of people by race called?
Segregation
What were the four areas that reformers focused on during the Progressive Movement?
In his novel The Jungle, this muckraker focused attention on the problems in the meat packing industry.
Upton Sinclair
Initiative
this reform allowed a voter to propose a law directly
Who was the progressive who worked toward the banning of alcohol? She was known for her radical strategies.
Carry Nation
Which African-American activist who believed learning skills to compete in a white society would make them competitive? He founded the Tuskegee Institute and did not oppose of segregation.
Booker T Washington
Explain the term political machine. Include the main goal.
Political organizations that controlled many city governments. Their goal was to secure votes for their candidates.
Who founded the hull house, one of the first settlement houses to help the urban poor?
Jane Addams
Recall
allowed people to vote an official out of office
Who was the leader of one of the largest political machines in New York City during the 1860’s and 1870’s?
Which Supreme Court Case made Jim Crows laws legal by setting the precedent of ‘separate but equal’?
Plessy vs. Ferguson
What name was given to the people that exposed corruption in society?
Muckrakers
What are people who wanted to reform society were called?
Progressives
Referendu
a proposed law was submitted to a vote of the people
What is the protection and preservation of natural resources called?
Conservation
Who was one of the founders of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), and demanded full equality for all African Americans including desegregation?
WEB DuBois
Who was the muckraker that targeted John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Trust with her writings?
Ida B. Tarbell
Who was the Wisconsin Governor and political reformer thought voters should be allowed to participate in a direct primary?
Robert Lafollette
Who were the progressives who worked for women’s right to vote?
Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Carrie Chapman Catt.
What do we call unfair treatment due to a person’s race, religion, or ethnicity?
Discrimination
The 16th Amendment
Income Tax