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African American Rights
Women's Rights
Buisness
Working conditions
Other
100
An amount of money one had to pay to vote
What is a poll tax?
100
the right to vote
What is suffrage
100
Having exclusive control over a good or service
What is a monopoly?
100
A journalist who worked to expose problems and raise awareness in order to make change. Examples of their work include "The Jungle" and "How the Other Half Lived." 100 bonus points each if you can name and match the author of either work
What is a Muckraker "The Jungle" Upton Sinclair "How the Other Half Lived" Jacob Riis
100
The years that progressive movement took place in
What are 1890-1920
200
African Americans had to answer questions in order to vote.
What is a Literacy Test
200
A change to the Constitution that made it legal for women to vote Bonus 100 points if you know the year
What is The 19th amendment 1920
200
the idea that consumers and businesses should be fair with one another.
What is the "square deal"
200
an organized group that refuses to work in order to make change in the workplace
What is a strike
200
a group of people favoring or implementing social reform
What is progressive
300
Laws made to segregate black people and keep them from voting
What are Jim Crow Laws
300
A method used durring the women's suffrage movement where women stood in front of the capital, even during war time, with banners in order to make change
What is picketing
300
This law was too vague to be used to prosecute big businesses very often, sometimes it was even used to prosecute labor unions instead
What is The Sherman Antitrust Act 1890
300
An organization of workers formed to protect and further their rights in the workplace
What is a union
300
Areas of land set aside for conservation, sustainability, an beauty by president Roosevelt
What are the National Parks
400
When a black person managed to pass a literacy test and pay a poll tax some of them still did not vote because they were afraid to be killed, this was known as
What is Lynching
400
During the women's suffrage movement women in jail would refuse to eat in order to protest the governments treatment of them and fight for voting rights
What is a hungerstrike
400
The board was created by Wilson to enforce antitrust law
What is The Federal Trade Commission
400
A terrible tragedy in New York City that left more than 100 dead and caused change to laws concerning workers saftey
What is The Triangle Factory Fire
400
The three progressive era presidents
What are Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson
500
A group that formed to try and raise awareness and make change for colored people in the progressive era. They commonly go by their acronym. Bonus 100 Points: What does the acronym stand for?
What is the NAACP National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
500
The government attempted to prove that women were not worth listening to many times during the women's suffrage movement. For instance arresting them for blocking traffic and trying to have their leader declared insane.
What is discrediting women's suffragists
500
When a larger company owns many smaller companies in order to form a monopoly.
What is a Trust
500
when companies pay workers who are hurt or become ill because of their job
What is workers compensation
500
dangerous cramped housing for the poor in cities bonus 100 points if you can name three dangers of having a heating stove in a cramped room
What is tenement housing fire suffocation burns