Key People and Vocabulary
This muckraker wrote the Jungle, exposing problems in the meat packing industry.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
This amendment gives women the right to vote.
What is the 19th amendment?
These are organizations that guarantee votes at election time through both legal and illegal methods.
What is a political machine?
The love and protection of our natural resources is known as this.
What is conservation?
This President took office following the assassination of William McKinley.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
These are investigative journalists who seek to rake up the filth and problems in society.
What is a muckraker?
This group of people only earned the right to vote in 1920.
Who are women?
President Roosevelt showed his leadership and executive power when he ended a strike of 150,000 __________ workers through the use of arbitration.
What are coal miners.
This amendment bans the sale, consumption and transportation of alcohol.
What is the 18th amendment?
The progressive political party created by Theodore Roosevelt during the election of 1912.
What is the Bull Moose Party?
The practice of letting voters accept or reject measures proposed by legislators
What is a referendum?
This progressive reformer thought that African Americans should spend their time fighting racial injustice.
Who is WEB DuBois?
The number of girls who died at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.
What is 146.
This amendment allows the federal government to tax peoples personal income.
What is the 16th amendment?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!
He was the only Progressive Era President from the Democratic Party.
This is a system of government where the workers own and operate a nation's means of production.
What is socialism?
This progressive reformer thought that African Americans should work hard, get an education, and earn the white mans respect to get ahead.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
I was the leader of the famed political machine, Tammany Hall.
Who is Boss Tweed?
This Progressive reformer made changes in the field of education.
Who is John Dewey?
This is a policy created by Theodore Roosevelt that was both fair to business and labor during the Progressive Era.
What is the Square Deal?
This Chief Forester was fired by Taft and angered many conservatives, including Teddy Roosevelt.
Who is Gifford Pinchot?
These two women's suffragists founded the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) in 1890.
Who are Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
This famous supreme court case ruled that the federal government could NOT legally limit a bakers work day to 10 hours?
This Constitutional amendment allowed citizens to directly elect U.S. Senators. Previously, they were appointed by party leaders.
What is the 17th amendment?
He was the 4th party candidate (socialist party) during the election of 1912.
Who is Eugene V. Debs?