Amendment that established a graduated income tax in the US.
What is the 16th Amendment
100
This act came about partly because of conditions that were exposed in Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle"
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
100
An election in which citizens themselves vote to select nominees for upcoming elections.
What is a Direct Primary?
100
The amendment that finally allowed women's suffrage
What is nineteenth amendment
200
Amendment that granted women's suggrage
What is the 19th Amendment
200
Act that fined railroads that offered discounts to favored shippers.
What is the Elkins Act?
200
Form of government that gives government control over means of production (factories, etc...)
What is socialism?
200
This is the goal of most muckrakers
What is exposing political and business corruptions? (something along those lines is fine)
300
Amendment that allowed direct election of senators.
What is the Seventeenth Amendment
300
Act which fave the Interstate Commerce Commision strong enforcement powers over railroads and other forms of transportation.
What is the Hepburn Act?
300
This was Theodore Roosevelt's plan for keeping the wealthy and powerful from taking advantage of small business owners and the poor.
What is the Square Deal?
300
Which of the following issues would Progressives NOT seek to change? Moral improvement of society, ending gov. corruption, banning strikes, fixing child labor
What is banning strikes?
400
Amendment that banned the sale and distribution of alchohol. (prohibition)
What is the Eightteenth Amendment
400
Act that gave the fed. government contol over water in the US>
What is the National Reclamation Act
400
The main reason that the Democrats under Woodrow Wilson were able to win the Election of 1912.
What is the Republican party split the votes.
400
What happened to child labor in many states during the Progressive Era.
What is was abolished?
500
Group that pushed the hardest for prohibition.
What is Women
500
Act that put some teeth in earlier anti-trust laws by spelling rules out more clearly
What is the Clayton Anti-Trust Act?
500
The primary goal of prohibitionists
What is eliminate the use of alcohol (make alchohol illegal)
500
The law that Roosevelt enformed to gain the name "trust buster"